WHEN OVERTIME IS ALLOWED:
A. Non-Exempt Employees Full & Part Time : Non-exempt, full- and part-time employees will
receive time and one-half their regular rate of pay for all approved time worked in excess of 40
hours during a pay week, Sunday through Saturday. In lieu of overtime, the non-exempt employee
may choose te exchange this overtime to compensation time as set forth in Article 25.
B. Non-Exempt Employees Called In From Home: (!f a non-exempt employee gets called in from
home to work, he/she shall receive at least a 3-hour minimum in overtime pay if over 40 hours ina
week or a 3-hour minimum in reguiar pay if under 40 hours in a week. If the 3-hour minimum
overlaps with regular duty time, additional pay shall be only for hours worked in excess of the
regular duty schedule.
C. SUBMISSION OF OVERTIME SLIPS:
Overtime will be submitted on the appropriate form either during the week it was worked or no more
than one (1} week after the date worked. All overtime slips submitted will be paid according to the
total number of hours worked in the week it was worked, not the week the slip was received.
FLEX TIME & PER DIEM:
A. Purpose: Flextime or flexible hours program refers to the replacement of fixed work hours with
flexibie hours chosen by an employee within the parameters established by the Chief of Police or his/her
designee. Flextime is the option of working a shorter tour of duty on one day to offset a longer tour of
duty on another day in the same work week due to unusual Department assignments or job
responsibilities.
B. Exempt Employees (Flex Time & Per Diem):
a. Only employees who are exempted from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA) shall be eligible for per diem or flex time. Exempt positions are not eligible for
overtime. However, exempt personnel may be allowed flextime off by their appropriate
supervisor within thirty (30) days of the overtime worked in exchange based on each
situation.
b. When exempt employees are required to report to work on a weekend (from Friday at 8:00
p.m. until Sunday at micnight), holiday, or vacation day in emergency or non-emergency
situations to assist any City/Department, agency, or specialty unit, the exempt employee
shall be compensated at a per diem rate of one and one-half (+ 42) times their base hourly
rate from the time they report to work until such time as they are released from work by
their supervisor.
C. Approval of Flextime: Flextime must be approved by the appropriate supervisor or designee before
the employee is allowed to change his/her duty hours.
D. Disputes: Disputes concerning personal days and flextime shall follow the Grievance Procedure
through Step 3, at which point, the decision shall be final and binding upon the parties.
E. Emergency Situations: During special times such as emergency operations or during snowstorms,
non-essential civilians may be sent home early from work. For these special situations, those civilians
who continue to work the normal work day will not receive additional pay, and those civilians who are
allowed or asked to leave the work day early, will not be deducted any amount from their normal weekly
pay.
SPECIAL PROJECT STIPENDS:
Employees, who are normally ineligible for overtime, may receive a stipend based on special projects which
fall outside of their normal areas of responsibility. The rate wil! be based on 1.5 times the hourly rate of
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