Modification of Watch Hours. 1. The below provisions regarding working hours do not preclude Management from adopting different scheduling if workload or emerging crime problems mandate such adjustments, provided the adjustments are within the hours as specified herein. In preparing a DP work schedule, Management may assign employees to work hours other than the employees’ regular watch hours for prescheduled events such as training, special events (i.e., May Day, holiday parades), community meetings, and administrative meetings. Following the posting of the DP work schedule, if it is necessary to adjust an employee’s scheduled days off or day off in lieu of a holiday, it shall be the employee’s option to work the assignment on an overtime basis or adjust their work schedule. Any adjustment of scheduled days off or a day off in lieu of a holiday requested by the employee is subject to Management approval.
Modification of Watch Hours. 1. The below provisions regarding working hours do not preclude the Department from adopting different scheduling if workload or emerging crime problems mandate such adjustments, provided the adjustments are within the hours as specified herein. In preparing a work schedule, the Department may assign employees to work hours other than the employees’ regular watch hours for prescheduled events such as training, special events, community meetings, and administrative meetings.
Modification of Watch Hours. PM and Weekend Deployment Stability of Hours: Management and the League recognize that particularly on PM watch, adjusting a detective’s work hours after the posting of the work schedule should only be done when reasonably necessary to accomplish operational needs, but should not be done arbitrarily, capriciously, or punitively. Management may consider individual requests for temporary exclusion from a change of work hours based on an individual’s personal hardship or emergency.
