(A) The county’s work week begins Sunday and concludes on Saturday.
(B) Overtime will be authorized by documented approval by the Judge-Executive. The supervisor or office holder shall not require overtime of their employees, except in extraordinary situations. When emergency conditions such as snow, storms or flooding exist in the county and the County Road Department Supervisor and the County Judge Executive decide to work during these emergency conditions, the County Road Department employees working during these conditions will be considered as having worked overtime hours. These employees are not required to work 40 hours in any work week to be eligible for such emergency overtime hours.
(C) (1) The salary of supervisors is “preadjusted” to anticipate “overtime compensation during times of extraordinary or emergency situations such as snow removal, storms and things of a similar nature. Therefore, supervisors shall not be entitled to “overtime compensation” in addition to their regular salary.
(2) A county employee who is authorized to work one or more hours in excess of the prescribed hours per week may be granted compensatory leave on an hour-for-hour basis. Upon the written request by a county employee, made freely and without coercion, pressure or suggestion by the employer, and upon a written agreement reached between the employer and the county employee before the performance of the work, a county employee who is not exempt from the provisions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., may be granted compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay, at the rate of not less than one and one-half hours for each hour the county employee is authorized to work in excess of 40 hours in a work week.
(3) As of 7-26-2019, a county employee engaged in work in excess of 37 and one-half hours, may accrue not more than 80 hours of compensatory time. A county employee who has accrued 80 hours of compensatory time off, shall for additional overtime hours of work, be paid overtime compensation.
(4) A county employee who has accrued compensatory time off, and who has requested the use of compensatory time, shall be permitted to use the compensatory time within a reasonable period after making the request if the use of the compensatory time does not unduly disrupt the operations of the county. Mere inconvenience to the county shall not constitute a sufficient basis for denial of a county employee’s request for compensatory time off. No salaried employee is eligible for comp time.
(5) Upon a county employee’s termination of employment, all unused accrued compensatory time shall be paid at a rate of compensation not less than:
(a) The average regular rate received by the county employee during the last three years of the county employee’s employment; or
(b) The final regular rate received by the county, whichever is higher.
(Ord. 21.230-1, passed 7-8-2021
; Ord. passed 7-13-2022
)