(a) Full time Firefighters, Lieutenants, and Captains may be assigned by the Fire Chief to a work week that may range from 40 to 53 hours per week.
(b) Full time Firefighters, Lieutenants, and Captains that are assigned to a three shift system will work twenty-four (24) consecutive hours, followed by forty-eight (48) consecutive hours off.
(c) This work week consists of an average of working fifty-six (56) hours per week. To conform to the United States Fair Labor Act requirement that limits municipal firefighters to an average of a fifty-three (53) hour work week, each employee working the 24-48 schedules shall be given three (3) hours of paid time off for each week they work.
(d) On January 1 of each year employees due accumulated time off for that future one year shall be awarded the accumulated hours anticipated for that year for use in the full calendar year. The employee may request paid time off with those accumulated hours in any increment of time.
(e) The Fire Chief or his/her designee shall track the accumulated time off within the Department and must give approval for any use of accumulated time off before it is utilized by an employee. At no time may an employee's utilization of accumulated time off cause a shift to drop below its current operational level.
(f) The three (3) hours of accumulated time off may be banked by an employee to a maximum of 320 hours. Any accumulation of hours above 320 hour shall be assigned the employee as paid time off by the Fire Chief or his/her designee.
(g) An employee who may have accumulated time off (maximum of 320 hours) at the time of leaving the employ of Sheffield Village shall be entitled to a monetary settlement of those accumulated hours at the one and one half (1 ½) times the hourly wage figure of that employee at the time of leaving the Sheffield Village Fire Department.
(h) The Fire Chief shall be assigned to a forty hour work week and is exempt from overtime compensation for hours worked over 40 hours per week. The Fire Chief shall receive compensatory time at a rate of 1 ½ times per hour worked beyond the forty hour work week.
(i) Part time employees are assigned random hours as needed to a maximum of 53 hours per week. Part time employees shall be restricted to working no more than 1,500 hours per year.
(j) After-Hour Call-Out Defined. As used in this section, "after-hour call-out" means anytime that an employee of the Village is called to work, other than during his or her normal work hours, and in fact does such requested work. Such request to work must be made by the authorized Village department head.
(k) Full time employees are compensated three (3) hours for an emergency call back at their over time rate. Part time employees are compensated three (3) hours for a emergency call back at their straight pay rate, unless they exceed 106 hours in that pay period. Part time employees who exceed 106 hours in a pay period are compensated at one and one half (1 ½) times their hourly rate of pay. (Ord. 2160. Passed 12-8-08.)