Overtime Meals When employees are required to work more than two (2) hours beyond their regular work days, the Employer will provide hot meals at no cost to the employees, up to a maximum of sixteen dollars ($16.00) (receipts to be submitted) plus paid meal periods of one-half (1/2) hour at the prevailing rate and thereafter at four (4) hour intervals. Any early morning start before regular starting time is entitled to a paid meal. The breakfast limit is thirteen dollars ($13.00) (receipts to be submitted). Employees called out on overtime shall be paid for meals as above, after four (4) hours work.
Overtime Meal Allowance Employees required to work more than two (2) hours overtime consecutive with a shift shall be provided with a meal by the Employer.
Christmas or New Year's Day Off The Employer agrees to make every reasonable effort to ensure that employees required to work shift shall have at least Christmas Day or the following New Year's Day off.
Payment for Working Overtime on a Holiday Where an employee is required to work authorized overtime in excess of his regularly scheduled hours on a paid holiday, such employee shall receive twice (2x) his regular straight time hourly rate for such authorized overtime.
Payment for Unused Sick Leave (a) An employee with less than ten (10) years of FIU service who separates from FIU shall not be paid for any unused sick leave. (b) An employee who has completed ten (10) or more years of FIU service, has not been found guilty or has not admitted to being guilty of committing, aiding, or abetting any embezzlement, theft, or bribery in connection with State government, or has not been found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of having violated any State law against or prohibiting strikes by public employees, and separates from FIU because of retirement for other than disability reasons, termination, or death, shall be compensated at the employee's current regular hourly rate of pay for one-eighth of all unused sick leave accrued prior to October 1, 1973, plus one- fourth of all unused sick leave accrued on or after October 1, 1973; provided that one-fourth of the unused sick leave since 1973 does not exceed 480 hours. The compensation in this paragraph 8(4)(b) shall not be given to an employee who starts employment at FIU on or after July 1, 2006. (c) Upon layoff, an employee with ten (10) or more years of FIU service shall be paid for unused sick leave as described in paragraph b., above, unless the employee requests in writing that unused sick leave be retained pending re-employment. For an employee who is re-employed by the University within twelve (12) calendar months following layoff, all unused sick leave shall be restored to the employee, provided the employee requests such action in writing and repays the full amount of any lump sum leave payments received at the time of layoff. An employee who is not re- employed within twelve (12) calendar months following layoff shall be paid for sick leave in accordance with this Policy. (d) All payments for unused sick leave shall be made in lump sum and shall not be used in determining the average final compensation of an employee in any State administered retirement system. An employee shall not be carried on the payroll beyond the last official day of employment, except that an employee who is unable to perform duties because of a disability may be continued on the payroll until all sick leave is exhausted. (e) If an employee has received a lump sum payment for accrued sick leave, the employee may elect in writing, upon re-employment within 100 days, to restore the employee's accrued sick leave. Restoration will be effective upon the repayment of the full lump sum leave payment. (f) In the event of the death of an employee, payment for unused sick leave at the time of death shall be made to the employee's beneficiary, estate, or as provided by law.
Banked Overtime (a) Compensating time off shall not be given in lieu of overtime pay unless the employee so chooses. Employees who wish to bank overtime must confirm same in writing to the Company between March 1st and March 15th and again between September 1st and September 15th of each calendar year. Employees shall be entitled to cancel their decision to bank overtime at any time. In such cases, the employee shall provide the Company with a written notice confirming same, and shall not be eligible to resume banking overtime until the following March 1st or September 1st, as the case may be. (b) Accumulated banked overtime hours shall be shown on the employee's weekly pay stub until implementation of the Workbrain System, at which point such information will be available for review through that System. (c) Banked overtime shall accumulate at the rate of one and one-half (1½) or two (2) hours of paid time off, as the case may be, for each hour of overtime worked. Employees shall only bank overtime exceeding one (1) hour. If overtime worked does not exceed one hour, such overtime shall be paid out. (d) Employees shall have the option of cashing in all or any portion of said banked overtime at any time he or she chooses. Banked overtime that is subsequently cashed in by an employee shall be paid to the employee at the regular hourly rate of pay said employee was being paid at that time. All banked overtime must be used or cashed in by the end of the calendar year in which it was earned, unless otherwise mutually agreed to between the employee concerned and the Company. Separate cheques will not be issued for banked overtime but, when paid out, the banked overtime amount will be itemized separately on the employee’s pay record. (e) Subject to the following paragraph, each employee shall decide when his or her compensating time off is to be taken except that no such time off can be taken on the working day immediately preceding and following a general holiday without the prior approval of the Company. Compensating time off shall be granted to employees on a first come first served basis. Seniority shall only apply and be the governing factor in situations where on the same day, too many employees put in a request to take compensating time off at the same time. A maximum of four (4) employees per day shall be entitled to use their banked overtime. These amounts may be increased from time to time at the discretion of the Company. (f) All banked time off requests must be submitted by the Monday of the week preceding the requested time off. The minimum amount of such time off that can be taken at any one time shall be four (4) hours. The Employer agrees to respond to the employee’s request within twenty-four (24) hours. Should no response be given by the Employer, then permission for the time off will be deemed to have been granted (g) For the purpose of using banked overtime for regularly scheduled days off (excluding shut downs), each employee shall have the ability to use a maximum of forty (40) hours while working eight (8) hour shifts and forty-eight (48) hours while working continental shifts per calendar year. All other overtime banked shall be paid out to employees upon request. Should an employee want to take off more than the maximum hours off noted above per calendar year, a written request will be submitted to the Company for consideration and will be approved at the Company’s discretion. (h) No requests for time banked time off for regularly scheduled days off, between April 15th – December 31st of each year will be approved until after the vacation planner has been finalized for the year. Once the planner has been finalized all requests will be granted on a first come first serve basis. (i) No employees will have the ability to request regularly scheduled days off (excluding shut downs) during the prime time vacation period for the use of banked overtime. (j) All employees hired after April 15, 2015 will not be eligible to bank overtime.
Requirement to Work Reasonable Overtime The Employer may require any Employee to work reasonable overtime at overtime rates and such Employee shall work overtime in accordance with such requirement.
Employee Called as a Witness Upon reasonable notification, the Employer will grant leave with pay to a witness called by an employee who is a party to the grievance.
Scheduled Overtime Scheduled overtime is overtime which is assigned by the end of the employee's last worked shift prior to the overtime assignment and which does not immediately precede or immediately follow a scheduled work shift. Unless notified otherwise in advance of the scheduled starting time of the scheduled overtime assignment, any employee who is scheduled to report for work and who reports as scheduled shall be assigned at least two (2) hours work. If work is not available, the employee may be excused from duty and paid for two (2) hours at the employee's appropriate rate. If the employee begins work but is excused from duty before completing two (2) hours of work, the employee shall be paid for two (2) hours at the employee's appropriate rate.
Overtime Computation Computation of overtime will be rounded upward to the nearest one-tenth (1/10th) of an hour.
