Civil Emergency Premium Compensation. In each declared period of Civil Emergency, if additional hours are worked after a bargaining unit member has accrued 200 total compensatory time in a year or has accrued 72 hours in a single incident of declared Civil Emergency Conditions as noted above (i.e., they are maxed out in one or both categories), such additional hours of work shall be paid at the Civil Emergency Premium Compensation rate of an additional one-half times the employee’s regular straight time rate, for up to an additional 72 hours of work for each period of declared Civil Emergency Conditions. Therefore, it is possible that a portion of the hours worked during a Civil Emergency will be paid as Civil Emergency Compensatory Time, up to the applicable caps, and the balance of hours worked, up to a total of an additional 72 hours in that Civil Emergency incident, will be paid at the Civil Emergency Premium Compensation rate. Hours worked in such a period after the72 hour Civil Emergency Premium Compensation cap has been reached will be paid at straight time or overtime as otherwise applicable under law. This Civil Emergency Premium Compensation contract hourly rate is paid based on the employee’s straight time regular rate, and not on any overtime rate, even if the underlying hours worked by the employee to be entitled to this premium pay are paid at the rate of time and one-half overtime based on the Fair Labor Standards Act (i.e., no time and one-half on time and one-half).
