151.04 OVERTIME.
(a) Except for those employees not covered by the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, or the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, all full-time employees shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the employees regular hourly rate for that time actually worked in excess of forty (40) hours during a seven (7) day work week when approved by that employee's department head.
(b) Employees shall, at their election, be able to accrue compensatory time at one and one-half (1-1/2) times the number of overtime hours worked in lieu of cash payment, up to a maximum of one hundred and sixty (160) hours. In the event an employee works overtime when his "compensatory time bank" is at one hundred and sixty (160) hours, he shall be paid cash for such overtime. All hours over one hundred twenty (120) in the employee's compensatory time bank as of December 31st of each year, shall be paid in cash to the employee in January of the succeeding year at the prior year's rate of pay at which it was earned.
(c) Holidays, compensatory time, sick leave, personal sick days, free personal days and vacation time, shall be considered time actually worked.
(d) Those employees called to work on an emergency basis outside of their normal working hours, shall be paid at their regular hourly rate and shall be paid for a minimum of two (2) hours. In the event that the hours worked on an emergency basis as provided in this subsection are subject to the overtime provisions of subsection (a) hereof, then such employees shall be paid at one and one-half (1-1/2) times their regular hourly rate for a minimum of two (2) hours and thereafter in increments of fifteen (15) minutes.
(e) Full-time department heads, the Police Lieutenant, the Fire Department Assistant Chief and the Assistant Service Director shall be entitled to compensatory time of one (1) hour for each hour actually worked in excess of forty (40) hours in a seven (7) day work period. The compensatory time authorized herein may be accumulated to a maximum total of one hundred twenty (120) hours. Compensatory time used from this accumulation shall only be used with the approval of the Mayor or direct supervisor. The overtime provisions of this subsection are not required by the Fair Labor Standards Act and are accorded to the employees covered by this subsection at the sole discretion of the Municipality with the Municipality reserving the right to rescind the overtime granted herein.
(f) When a Fire Department employee changes regularly scheduled work hours from a standard Fire Department shift to a forty (40) hour work week, or vice versa, the accumulated balance for compensatory time shall remain intact and not be adjusted for hourly rates at the time of changing work hours.
(Ord. 33-2022. Passed 7-26-22.)