(a) As used in this section:
(1) Employee is any classified civil service employee, but shall not include any individual employed in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exempt position.
(2) Workweek is the period of time beginning at 12:00 a.m. each Monday and ending at 11:59 p.m. each Sunday.
(b) Any supervisor may, with approval of his supervisor, direct any member of the classified civil service to work reasonable hours in addition to the normal work schedule when essential to meet operating needs. A member's refusal to comply with such a request shall be grounds for disciplinary action.
(c) Any employee who is not exempted by subsection (a)(1) and who is employed for a workweek longer than forty (40) hours shall receive compensation for this employment in excess of forty (40) hours in a workweek at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the hourly wage at which he is employed. Each individual workweek shall serve as the standard for determining entitlement to overtime compensation and, accordingly, averaging of hours over a two (2) workweek payroll period shall not be permitted.
(d) Overtime compensation shall only be paid for more than forty (40) hours actually worked within a workweek. Accordingly, no employee shall be paid overtime compensation solely for working in excess of eight (8) hours per day or for work on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays or regular days of rest; and time spent on vacation leave, sick leave, bereavement leave, leave of absence, holiday leave, disability leave, military leave or any other approved leave shall be excluded in computing entitlement to overtime compensation under this section.
(e) Where an employee in a single workweek works at two (2) or more different types of urban county government work for which different non-overtime rates of pay have been established, his hourly rate for that week is the weighted average of such rates. That is, his total earnings are computed to include his compensation during the workweek from all such rates, and are, then divided by the total number of hours worked, at all jobs.
(f) At the time the payroll report is submitted to the division of accounting, the supervisor shall submit to the chief administrative officer a report stating which employees worked overtime and the necessity therefor. Except as provided in section 21-27(b), no member of the classified civil service exempted by subsection (a)(1) shall receive overtime compensation.
(Ord. No. 139-78, § 1(21-28), 6-29-78; Ord. No. 56-83, § 2, 4-7-83; Ord. No. 059-2022 , § 21, 7-5-2022)