Common use of Standby Time – Ambulance Department Employees – Test Provision for FY 2020 Clause in Contracts

Standby Time – Ambulance Department Employees – Test Provision for FY 2020. This provision applies only to the Ambulance employees and is included for a one (1) year test period. The test period shall begin on July 1, 2019 and will conclude on June 30, 2021. On June 30, 2021, this provision will sunset, expire, and shall be of no further force or effect unless the provision is renewed in full or in part by the mutual consent of the parties in a successor agreement to this Agreement. At the discretion of the Department Head for the Ambulance Department, employees may be placed on a standby status. Standby status will be designated, and employees will be placed on standby status, selected to return to duty from standby status, and removed from standby status in accordance with the Ambulance Department’s Standby Time Policy. While on standby status, an employee will be paid $2.50 per hour for each hour that the employee remains on standby status. While on standby status, an employee must remain within the mileage radius set out within the Ambulance Department’s Residency Policy and must be able to return to duty if called in for duty. Employees will remain on a standby status until such time as the employee is called to return to duty. At the time an employee is called to return to duty from standby status, the employee will be paid at his or her prevailing wage from the time he or she returns to duty until such time that he or she is released from duty. Where an employee is called to return to duty from standby status, that employee will receive a minimum of two (2) hours of pay at the employee’s prevailing wage. Prevailing wage constitutes the rate of pay that employee would be entitled to receive for the hours he or she returns to work. Prevailing wage does not include the addition of standby pay for an employee who has returned to duty.