(a) All full-time employees of the Municipality, except members of the Police Department, shall have the following working hours except as set forth in any applicable collective bargaining agreement:
(1) 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; or
(2) 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., as assigned by the employee’s supervisor; or
(3) As otherwise directed by the Mayor.
(b) Each employee shall have an unpaid one-half hour lunch, which is to commence four hours after starting time.
(c) Each employee shall be allowed two personal breaks per day, not to exceed fifteen minutes each. One break is to be taken in the morning, and one break is to be taken in the afternoon.
(d) All overtime shall be approved by the supervisor or the Mayor.
(e) In the case of an emergency, the supervisor shall determine the employee’s starting time, lunch, break, personal break and overtime. During such emergency, each employee called-out by his or her supervisor for such emergency shall receive a minimum of two hours for such call-out time.
(f) Any employee who works overtime for the Municipality shall have the option of either:
(1) Being paid for such overtime at his or her regular pay; or
(2) Taking compensatory time-off within the calendar quarter in which the overtime was earned, or the calendar quarter directly following the calendar quarter in which the overtime was earned, subject to obtaining prior written approval from the appropriate department head.
Any compensatory time-off not taken within the quarter in which it was earned shall be paid to the employee at his or her regular rate of pay, at the beginning of the next subsequent quarter.
(Ord. 1976.119. Passed 8-25-76; Ord. 1984-58. Passed 7-11-84; Ord. 2000-49. Passed 5-10-00; Ord. 2012-02. Passed 1-25-12.)