(A) Non-emergency employees of the Police Department and the Fire Department shall be scheduled to work 40 hours per week.
(B) The salary ordinance for such employees shall be divided by 2,080 to determine that employee's hourly rate of pay.
(C) Hours worked for such employees shall be scheduled during the 178 hours of each work week for a period each work week of such employee shall start at 7:00 a.m. on each Monday morning.
(D) Emergency employees of the Fire Department and the Police Department shall be scheduled based on a 28-day work period.
(E) The 28-day work period for such employees of the Police Department shall start at 7:00 a.m. on October 27, 2000, at 7:00 a.m. and each 28 days thereafter. The 28-day work period for such employees of the Fire Department shall start at 7:00 a.m. on April 15, 2000, at 7:00 a.m. and each 28 days thereafter.
(F) Under current federal law, an emergency employee of the Fire Department may be scheduled for up to 212 hours per 28-day period, and an emergency employee of the Police Department may be scheduled for up to 171 hours per 28-day period. The town adopts those periods as the work periods for the respective department employees.
(G) Under current federal law, an employee of the Fire Department or an employee of the Police Department who works in excess of the number of hours stated in division (F) of this section in any 28-day period, as defined in division (E) of this section, and any other employee of the town not exempt or excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act, who works more than 40 hours per work week, shall be compensated by either payment at one and one-half times that employee's hourly rate of pay, or by allowing the employee to take future time off of work with pay as compensatory time.
(H) An employee may accumulate no more than 240 hours of compensatory time off for 160 hours of overtime worked, except a public safety employee, an emergency response employee, or an employee of another department engaged in a seasonal activity during periods of significantly increased demand, such as those employees engaged in snow removal during a winter with several snow storms, or a winter with a significantly greater volume of snow or drifting snow, may accumulate more than 240 hours of compensatory time off for 160 hours of overtime worked, with the written approval of the appropriate Town Council member. Such written approval shall be made a part of the public record at the next Town Council meeting.
(I) Any employee of the town that accumulates more than 240 hours of compensatory time for working 160 hours of overtime, except as stated in division (G) of this section, shall be paid for the hours in excess of 160 hours worked.
(J) A supervisor may not require an employee to use compensatory time, but a supervisor may schedule an employee so no additional compensatory time or overtime is worked.
(K) If an employee exercises his or her rights under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, the hours not worked shall be paid, so long as the employee has vacation days, personal days, or compensatory hours available. After all sick days (if appropriate for the particular leave), vacation days, personal days and compensatory hours have been used, time off under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act shall be unpaid.
(Ord. 2000-2-1, passed 3-28-00)