(a) The standard pay period for all Village employees will be a fourteen-day period
ending every other Saturday.
(b) All regular, full-time, non-elected employees of the Village (excluding salaried employees who would be exempt from overtime pay provisions under Federal and State law) shall be entitled to overtime compensation based on the following schedule:
(1) For police officers, hours worked in excess of eighty (80) hours in any two-week period:
A A Police Officer not scheduled to work who is called into work, shall be credited with a minimum of two (2) hours work, whether or not he actually works two (2) or more hours.
B. A Police Officer required to appear in court during time not scheduled to work shall be credited with a minimum of three (3) hours work, whether or not he actually is on duty for court three (3) or more hours.
(2) For employees in the Water and Sewer Departments, civilian employees of the Police Department, and for employees in all other departments, hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in any one work week.
(c) All overtime will be paid at one and one-half (½) times the regular pay.
(d) Vacation time, compensatory time and/or sick leave will be included as regular time for purposes of computing overtime, except that no overtime will be paid during the same day as sick leave unless the employee returns to work during regular hours and then is scheduled for overtime hours.
(e) No overtime as described in this section, can be paid unless the appropriate administrative authority has approved it.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision in this section, time spent by the Chief of Police to attend meetings of the Village Council or its committees shall not be counted towards the accumulation of "hours worked" for purposes of earning overtime compensation.
(g) Compensatory Time.
(1) Where an employee would be entitled to overtime pay pursuant to this section (excluding salaried employees who would be exempt from overtime pay provisions under Federal and State law), said person may, in lieu of such pay, elect to receive compensatory time off at the rate of one and one- half hours for each overtime hour worked. No employee may accumulate more than forty (40) hours of compensatory time. Any overtime worked in excess of the maximum accumulation of forty (40) hours compensatory time shall be paid in cash as overtime pay.
(2) Compensatory time may be taken upon approval of the employee's supervisor and will be paid at the employee's prevailing hourly rate of pay. Compensatory time off shall be granted subjected to the operational needs of the Department.
(3) Unused earned compensatory time will be paid out at the time an individual either terminates his or her employment with the Village or for any reason becomes ineligible to receive compensatory time. The compensatory time will be paid at the employee’s rate of pay prior to termination or loss of eligibility.
(4) The Village shall retain the right to, at any time, pay any or all accrued compensatory time in cash rather than in time off.
(Ord. 2021-22. Passed 6-14-21.)