(a) The biweekly salary rates described in the salary schedules are fixed on the basis of full-time service as defined in section 21-19. In any case listed below, the salary prescribed for full-time employment for any classified civil service employee shall be adjusted by multiplying same by a fraction of the hours actually worked during the pay period as the numerator and the regular number of hours required for full-time employment as the denominator:
(1) Where a classified civil service employee is absent from duty without permission within the meaning of section 21-43;
(2) Where the inception of termination of employment occurs during the pay period;
(3) Where a classified civil service employee is on authorized leave without pay.
(b) The salary of an employee in the division of computer services, the division of police, the division of fire and emergency services, the division of community corrections, the office of the chief information officer, and the division of enterprise solutions, who is exempted from statutory overtime requirements shall be computed as in subsection (a) of this section, except that there shall be a ten (10) percent increment to the biweekly salary rate for any pay period during which said employee is required to be on twenty-four-hour standby status for the emergency servicing of computer equipment. By July 1 of each fiscal year, each affected division shall submit to the director of human resources a listing of employees and the specific pay periods they will be required to serve on the twenty-four-hour standby status.
(c) Nonexempt employees required by their job duties to hold a commercial driver's license (CDL) shall receive a one dollar and eight cents ($1.08) per hour supplement to their hourly rate so long as they hold a position requiring the commercial driver's license (CDL). Exempt employees required by their job duties to hold a commercial driver's license (CDL) shall receive a forty-three dollar and twenty cents ($43.20) weekly supplement so long as they hold a position requiring the commercial driver's license (CDL). These supplements reflect the additional responsibility and scrutiny required to qualify for and maintain the commercial driver's license (CDL). The director shall make reasonable rules and regulations necessary to implement this section.
(d) The urban county council may, on the recommendation of the director and with the approval of the chief administrative officer, authorize a salary supplement to classifications in the classified civil service under the following terms and conditions:
(1) Employment market conditions must make it exceptionally difficult to recruit and retain qualified employees in the classifications as reflected by multiple unsuccessful recruitment processes, excessively high turnover rates and evidence from outside sources that employment market conditions warrant such a supplement.
(2) When the employment market conditions supporting the salary supplements change so as to make the salary supplement unnecessary for a given classification, the director, with the approval of the chief administrative officer, shall recommend to the urban county council that the supplement be discontinued.
(3) The salary supplements shall not be included in the computation of salary increases; such increases are based on a percent of each employee's base salary without the supplement.
(4) The director shall make reasonable rules and regulations to implement this section.
(e) Reserved.
(f) Any classified civil service employee who is officially designated as "on-call" shall receive additional compensation at the rate of ten dollars ($10.00) per day, Monday through Friday, and fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day on weekends and holidays. On-call employees who are called back to work shall be compensated for a minimum of two (2) hours. The CAO may adopt an administrative policy by which the director shall implement the provisions of this subsection.
(g) The director may, with the approval of the chief administrative officer and subject to sufficient funding, authorize a salary supplement of ninety dollars ($90.00) per month to full time, non-sworn employees holding positions in the classified civil service under the following terms and conditions:
(1) A full time, non-sworn employee shall be deemed to be in a high risk position when, cumulatively, the majority of the employee's work and duties are performed under conditions which could result in serious illness, severe personal injury or a substantial endangerment to health when exposed to minimally controllable or hazardous conditions, notwithstanding preventative efforts such as training, skills, abilities, protective equipment or engineered controls as required by OSHA.
(2) The director, after desk audits of positions identified as having high physical demands or hazardous working conditions in the current position classification system, shall identify those employees whose positions qualify them for the high risk job pay supplement.
(3) A position identified as high risk must, for a majority of the employee's work time, either singly or cumulatively, expose the employee to: lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling; heavy equipment; falling; machinery with moving parts; confined spaces; traffic; excavation; ladders or scaffolding; hazardous materials and chemicals; falling objects; or biological or infectious diseases.
(4) If a given position is not identified as a high risk position, the employee holding the position may appeal to a committee comprised of the director, the director of the division in which the position is located, the commissioner of the department in which the division is located, and representatives from the division of human resources and the office of the urban county council. The decision of the appeal committee shall be final.
(5) The directors of the divisions in which these positions are identified shall be responsible for tracking employees who qualify for this supplement.
(Ord. No. 139-78, § 1(21-27), 6-29-78; Ord. No. 253-78, § 1, 10-5-78; Ord. No. 40-89, § 1, 2-23-89; Ord. No. 116-96, § 9, 6-27-96; Ord. No. 147-96, § 2, 7-18-96; Ord. No. 229-97, § 1, 11-13-97; Ord. No. 190-2000, § 1, 6-29-00; Ord. No. 195-2000, § 1, 6-29-00; Ord. No. 82-2003, § 1, 4-24-03; Ord. No. 157-2004, § 1, 7-1-04; Ord. No. 138-2007, § 1, 6-21-07; Ord. No. 160-2010, § 1, 9-23-10; Ord. No. 106-2019 , § 1, 12-5-19; Ord. No. 014-2020 , § 1, 2-20-20; Ord. No. 107-2021 , § 1, 10-28-21; Ord. No. 108-2021 , § 1, 10-28-21; Ord. No. 059-2022 , § 20, 7-5-2022)