163.27 UNSCHEDULED EMERGENCY CALL-OUTS AND STAND-BY.

   (a)   In cases of unscheduled emergency call-outs, employees of the Water Department shall be paid a minimum of four hours at one and one-half times the regular rate, and if they should work the full eight hour turn or in excess thereof, they shall be paid one and one-half times the regular rate. This minimum and premium time provision shall apply also when an employee has left the job and has reached home and is called back.

   (b)   In cases of a call-out or call-back on a scheduled off day, employees of the Street Department (construction) shall receive time and one-half for each hour worked with a minimum guarantee of four hours. This minimum and premium time provision shall apply also when an employee has left the job and has reached home and is called back.

   (c)   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former subsection (c) was repealed by Ordinance 01-302, passed October 3, 2001.)

   (d)   In cases of a call-out, call-back or holdover on a scheduled off day, employees of the Waste Water Treatment Plant shall be paid a minimum of four hours at one and one-half times the regular rate, and if they should work the full eight hour turn or in excess thereof, they shall be paid one and one-half times the regular rate. This minimum and premium time provision shall apply also when an employee has left the job and has reached home and is called back.

   (e)   "Beeper" as used in this subsection, means any electronic or radio receiver that can be activated by electrical or radio signals carrying a message to the receiving set, commonly known as a walkie-talkie, battery-powered portable sending and receiving radio set.

   It is hereby established that regularly there shall be two sewermen assigned for stand-by to respond to call-outs by management. The decision as to the call-out, in this respect, shall be that of management. This is not, in any way, intended to compromise the right of management to determine emergency conditions.

   It is mandated that the above sewermen must work his/her emergency call-out for a period of one week out of seven weeks.

   The call-outs related to this subsection shall begin every Friday at 4:00 p.m. and end the following Friday at 4:00 p.m.. The above call-out is subject to the rules and regulations of the Waste Water Treatment Plant, especially as to those occasions when call-outs may be traded with other employees and the responsibility of the employee to notify management when there are trades with other employees.

   Those employees who are scheduled to observe the above stand-by and call-out requirement shall be paid an additional fifty dollars ($50.00) each week in compensation for their call-out status.

   The employee on call-out, described in this Section, shall be furnished a "beeper" by the City. The employee shall be responsible for the reasonable maintenance and safekeeping of the "beeper." The "beeper" shall be carried by the employee on stand-by/call-out at all times so that he/she can be contacted. The employee shall have one hour to respond and be available at the work site after he/she is notified by management through the "beeper" telephone or otherwise.

(Ord. 81-220. Passed 5-20-81.)

(Ord. 13-110. Passed 4-17-13.)

   (f)   An additional amount of one hundred and eleven dollars ($111.00) shall be paid for each week that a management employee of the Waste Water Treatment Plant, Water Department,

Street Department or a Network Administration Programmer is required to be on call.

(Ord. 23-408. Passed 11-1-23.)