Compensatory Time and/or Overtime Compensation. Employees may be assigned to overtime work provided that such overtime shall be limited to either emergency conditions which cannot be deferred and which cannot be performed with the personnel available during normal work hours, or because of an abnormal peak load in the activities or the institution or department. Employees who are required to work overtime will be compensated in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. When overtime is required, and the corresponding compensatory time would work and undue hardship on the efficient department operations, the Chief Administrative Officer, The Chief of the Bureau of Health Services or the Chief Financial Officer of Xxxx County, each for their respective department, may authorize the payment of cash overtime if the sufficient budgeted funds are available. The department head must give prior written notification to Chief Financial Officer or Xxxx County, as appropriate of the reasons requiring paid overtime, the positions affected and the probable period of time the overtime work will be required. All such overtime will be compensated at the time and one-half. Each department shall record hours worked for each employee eligible for overtime payments. Department Heads are responsible for the correct computation of straight time and overtime hours due an employee. Compensatory time shall be reclaimed in a minimum of thirty-minute increments.
Compensatory Time and/or Overtime Compensation. A. Overtime shall be voluntary to the extent possible. Voluntary overtime shall be offered on a rotating basis each pay period beginning with the most senior available on duty bargaining unit employees in the job title. If there are no available employees in the job title on duty volunteer then, the Employer shall make reasonable efforts to contact and offer the overtime based on the rotation, to off-duty employees in the job title who signed up for the overtime in advance. The intent of the parties is to make reasonable efforts to have an equitable distribution of overtime in the department. If there are not enough volunteers then employees may be assigned to overtime work provided that such overtime shall be limited to emergency conditions which cannot be deferred and which cannot be performed with the personnel available during normal work hours, or because of an abnormal peak load in the activities of the institution or department.
