(a) Generally. The following employees shall be exempt from or not entitled to overtime pay: elected officials, members of boards and commissions, the Director of Service, the Chief of Police, the Fire Chief, the Clerk of Courts, the Building Commissioner, the Director of Law, the Director of Finance and seasonal employees. Other employees may be exempt from overtime pay, depending on the duties and responsibilites of the position. Overtime for members of the safety forces shall be as provided in subsection (b) hereof. All seasonal employees in the pools, Service Department and elsewhere shall be paid a straight hourly rate for the number of hours worked.
In accordance with the State minimum wage law, overtime for all other employees, except as hereinabove provided, shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times the hourly rate for hours worked in excess of forty hours in a seven-day work period when such overtime hours have been authorized by the department head of such employee.
The hourly rate for salaried employees shall be determined by dividing the annual rate by 2,080. All such overtime must be paid for or taken in equivalent time off in the same twenty-eight day work period in which it occurred. If such overtime service is rendered in an emergency without prior authorization of the department head, such superior shall inquire into the nature of the emergency and, upon being satisfied that such emergency existed, confirm and authorize the overtime service. Sick leave shall not be earned for overtime hours.
(b) Safety Forces. There is hereby established as the prescribed normal work period for members of the Police and Fire Departments (safety forces) a work period of twenty-eight days. Hours worked in excess of 171 hours for the Police Department and 212 hours for the Fire Department within such work period shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times the regular hourly rate of the individual. The hourly rate for overtime purposes will be calculated on the basis of the number of hours worked, which is forty hours per week for the Police Department and fifty-four hours per week for the Fire Department, respectively, being the number of hours to be worked in the average work week pursuant to the collective bargaining agreements with the safety forces.
(Ord. 2013-46. Passed 7-1-13.)