(A) All city employees employed in the Electric, Water, Sewer and Street Departments are required to be on-call according to a schedule established by the Public Works Superintendent. When on-call, they shall be on-call for 1 week and compensation shall be determined by resolution. The amount of compensation may change from year-to-year as determined by the City Council.
(B) (1) Employees are required to arrive at the building or facility to which they normally report to work as soon as possible but no later than 30 minutes from the time they were first contacted. In the event that 1 of the holidays recognized and granted to employees for holiday pay shall fall within the week of on-call, the employee shall be given additional compensation of in an amount to be determined by resolution.
(2) It shall not be necessary that any of the on-call hours be worked in order to be eligible for the compensation. In the event the hours are worked, the employee shall be paid or granted compensatory time off in addition to the on-call compensation. The employee shall be credited with a minimum of 2 hours worked for each separate occasion that he or she is called out.
(3) In the event it becomes necessary due to illness or other reasons, that the employee on standby duty cannot fulfill their week of on-call, that employee must arrange with someone else to fill in their time and the pay will go to the employee with whom the arrangement was made. The Public Works Superintendent, however, must approve this arrangement.
(Ord. 491, passed 4-22-2003)