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WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workload. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated for the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eight

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

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WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workload. . B. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PARTpart-TIME time or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE limited duration employee is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. . C. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. D. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. E. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two paid (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations, work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one- half (1 1/2) times the employee's base pay rate or one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYERemployee's immediate supervisor or their designee. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimumEMPLOYER. Section 6. The EMPLOYER Unless specifically provided in another section of this Article, the base pay rate or premium compensation shall give consideration to equalizing not be paid more than once for the distribution same hours worked under any provisions of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightthis AGREEMENT.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing herein shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employeesemployees thereto, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PARTpart-TIME time or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE limited duration employee is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY base pay rate or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the employee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Overtime premium shall be provided in the form of either cash payment or compensatory time as determined appropriate by the EMPLOYER, provided employees shall have the right to indicate their preference to the EMPLOYER. Section 5. Employees shall be available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the EMPLOYER. Section 6. Unless specifically provided in another section of this Article, the base pay rate or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked under any provisions of this AGREEMENT. Section 7. For the Sheriff’s office only, a shift differential of $.95 per hour in 2016 and $1.00 per hour in 2017 shall be paid to all employees who work on an assigned shift where at least four (4) hours of the shift occur between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. Such shift differential shall be paid in addition to other forms of premium compensation for which the employee qualifies. Employees of the Department shall be subject to the same eligibility criteria for shift differential as applies to the majority of employees in their work unit. This shall include circumstances in which overtime subsequently results in extending an employee’s hours beyond their original assigned shift and shift differential shall be paid along with any other applicable forms of premium compensation. For all other departments, the shift differential shall be paid to all employees who work on an assigned shift where at least five (5) hours of the shift occur between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. Section 8. Employees called to the work site by the EMPLOYER shall be compensated paid for the period hours actually worked at their base pay rate but not less than three (3) hours. An extension Such payment shall be either in cash or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify compensatory time off as determined by the employee for the three (3) hour minimumEMPLOYER. Section 69. Should the EMPLOYER intend to institute alternate work schedules (i.e. 10 hour shifts), flex time, job sharing or work tasking, it shall first meet and confer on any of the above-mentioned items with the UNION. Section 10. When an employee is expressly assigned to perform the duties of a position allocated to a different classification that is temporarily unoccupied, and such assignment is for forty (40) or more continuous regular hours, the employee shall be paid for all such hours at the employee's current salary rate when assigned to work in a lower or equal class or at a rate within a higher range which is equal to the minimum rate for the higher class or one (1) step higher than the employee's current salary, whichever is greater. In order to qualify for such higher rate, the employee must perform that work which distinguishes the higher classification from the employee's regular class in terms of level of responsibility, types of duties, and/or quality and quantity. Rotation of employees through a position in a higher class for the purpose of avoiding payment of out of class pay is a violation of the intent of the out of class pay agreement. Section 11. Work shifts shall be considered part of the day and date on which they begin provided that in the Sheriff's Department and the Information Technology Department a work shift shall belong to the day on which the majority of the hours worked occur. Section 12. In 2016, a weekend differential of $.90 per hour will be paid to all employees required to work on any shift(s) that starts on either Saturday or Sunday. In 2017, the shift differential will be $1.00 per hour. Rather than being paid the weekend differential based on a work shift that starts on either Saturday or Sunday, Computer Operators in the Information Technology Department shall be paid the differential for all hours worked between 12 midnight Friday and 12 midnight Sunday. Such weekend differential shall be paid in addition to other forms of premium compensation for which the employee qualifies. Section 13. Approved vacation hours shall count as hours worked for purposes of computing overtime. Section 14. In the Sheriff's Department, overtime shall be distributed as equally as practicable. Section 15. Employees who are specifically required or authorized by the EMPLOYER to use foreign or sign language skills shall be compensated for such work according to the following terms and conditions: A. Full-time employees who are regularly required to use foreign language or sign language skills in addition to other job duties shall receive a salary differential of $47.50 per payroll period. This differential shall be pro-rated on the basis of scheduled hours for part-time employees. This differential will be in effect for all compensated hours including compensated leaves. B. Employees who provide foreign language or sign language skills on an occasional or irregular basis at the request of the EMPLOYER shall receive $9.50 in addition to their regular salaries for any work day on which such services are performed. This additional compensation shall not exceed $47.50 for any one payroll period. Section 16. Employees in the job class of Senior Service Center Representative who are expressly designated to direct the operations of a Service Center in the absence of a Public Service Unit Supervisor (Service Center Supervisor) shall receive a differential of $.95 per hour in 2016, and $1.00 per hour in 2017. In 2016, employees in the job class of Public Service Assistant (or any reclassified job title of the same group of employees, that may occur during the life of the contract) who are expressly designated to direct the support functions or the building functions (as outlined in the department’s best practices) of a library in the absence of a supervisor or a Lead Worker shall receive a differential of $1.30 per hour for each hour or portion thereof so designated. The total rate paid to the employee under the provisions of this section shall not be less than the total rate provided by Section 10 of this Article (“work out of class” pay), provided the employee qualified for payment under the provisions of Section 10. Section 17. In the event the EMPLOYER exercises its discretion to close a department, work site or workplace due to an emergency, including inclement weather, employees who were scheduled to work but could not due to such EMPLOYER decision may use accrued leave (vacation, sick leave, compensatory time, deferred holiday) to cover the hours missed. Further, with the approval of the EMPLOYER, an employee may be allowed to make up the time by working additional hours. Such approved additional hours may be assigned in a work location which is different from the employee’s regular work location, if practicable. Section 18. For the job classes of Sheriffs Records Coordinator, and Public Safety Records Clerk, the parties agreed to continue the shift and weekend differentials as follows: Sheriffs Records Coordinator, and Public Safety Records Clerk shift differential shall give consideration be $1.25 per hour. Sheriffs Records Coordinator and Public Safety Records Clerk weekend differential shall be $.95 per hour in 2014 2016 and $1.00 per hour in 2017. Section 19. An Associate Librarian expressly designated by the EMPLOYER to equalizing be in charge of a library in the distribution absence of overtimeeither a supervisor(s) or a Librarian, will receive, in charge pay, provided such assignment is for a period of at least two (2) hours. The in charge pay will be $1.30 per hour. Section 20. Employees expressly assigned by the EMPLOYER to remain in “On Call-Off Premises” status will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing receive $2.60 per hour Section 21. In the Sheriff’s Central Records, employees specifically assigned by the Sheriff/designee to volunteer perform the duties of Field Training Officer (FTO), as defined by the Sheriff/designee, will be paid an additional $1.00 per hour for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtimethose hours worked as an FTO provided the assignment is for a period of at least one (1) hour. Overtime opportunities If an employee is assigned as an FTO they shall when practicable be distributed from paid the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom premium pay regardless of the voluntary list after number of trainees. The parties agree that there is a certain degree of guidance and coaching that more experienced employees are expected to provide to new or newly assigned employees. The FTO duties shall be distinguished by the officer has worked eightspecific assignment of the employee by the Sheriff/designee as the FTO, as well as the requirement that the FTO sign off as a coach on the required evaluation forms. The parties further agree that training done in classroom or orientations performed in an office setting are not the type of training for which the FTO would be eligible for FTO pay. Section 22. In the Sheriff’s Office the job classes of Sheriffs Records Coordinator and Public Safety Records Clerk (formally Sheriff’s Records Clerks) assigned to Central Records will have the opportunity to bid for their shifts. There will be two shift bids in each bidding year occurring on the same dates as the office bid dates. The bidding seniority will be their seniority within their job class. An employee with less than one year’s job class seniority when a bid is conducted cannot bid.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workload. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees If additional open dates and hours are proposed for the community and area libraries (including but not limited to Sundays Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend), the EMPLOYER shall normally notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees prior to implementation D. Sunday hours will be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during filled first from volunteers from qualified staff within each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYERagency. Section 4. Worked For NON-EXEMPT employees, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTOvacation/ PTO hours) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated for the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightforty

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees If additional open dates and hours are proposed for the community and area libraries (including but not limited to Sundays Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend), the EMPLOYER shall normally notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees prior to implementation D. Sunday hours will be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during filled first from volunteers from qualified staff within each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYERagency. Section 4. Worked For NON-EXEMPT employees, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTOvacation/ PTO hours) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER. Section 5employee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Employees called to work Overtime premium shall be compensated for provided in the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension form of either cash payment or early report compensatory time as determined appropriate by the EMPLOYER, provided employees shall have the right to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify indicate their preference to the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightper pay period basis.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing herein shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employeesemployees thereto, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workload. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Articlework load. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION ASSOCIATION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION ASSOCIATION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) A. Employees in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or moreChemical Health Unit Supervisor, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (80) hours per payroll period Corrections Supervisor and Human Services Supervisor job classes shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall not be eligible for overtime premium unless compensation except when prior approval is given based on the need for necessary emergency work directly related to client service or any urgent work directly related to the critical business of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated for the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eight

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PARTpart-TIME time or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE limited duration employee is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two paid (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY base pay rate or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYERemployee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimumEMPLOYER. Section 6. The EMPLOYER Unless specifically provided in another section of this Article, the base pay rate or premium compensation shall give consideration to equalizing not be paid more than once for the distribution same hours worked under any provisions of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightthis AGREEMENT.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing herein shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employeesemployees thereto, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Employees affected by the schedule modifications on the final posted schedule shall be properly notified as such. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workload. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Articlework load. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. The EMPLOYER will meet and confer with the UNION prior to implementation of alternative work schedules. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations, work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked As determined appropriate by the EMPLOYER, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated either forty (40) hours per work shift week or in excess of eight (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average 8) and eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1- 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked ’s base pay rate subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYERemployee’s immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimumEMPLOYER. Section 6. The A shift differential of $1.00/hour shall be paid to all employees who work on an assigned shift where at least four (4) hours of the shift occur between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. Such shift differential shall be paid in addition to other forms of premium compensation for which the employee qualifies. a. m. Such shift differentials shall be paid in addition to other forms of premium compensation for which the employee qualifies. Shift differential for LPN’s, Respiratory Therapists and Sr. Respiratory Therapists shall be $1.75 per hour for evening shifts (including rotating evenings) and $2.25 per hour for night shifts (including rotating nights). Permanent night shift differential for EKG Technician, EKG Technician, Senior, and Telemetry Technician shall be $1.25 per hour. Permanent night shift differential for LPN’s, Respiratory Therapists and Sr. Respiratory Therapists shall be $2.75 per hour. MRI Technologists on permanent evenings receive a $5/hour differential. MRI Technologists receive a $50.00 shift bonus for unscheduled shift pick-up. Surgical Technicians receive a $1.00/hour differential for Cardio Vascular work. Surgical Technicians receive an additional $3/hour for permanent nights and $2.00/hour for permanent evenings. Section 7. Should the EMPLOYER intend to institute flex time, job sharing or work tasking, it shall first meet and confer on any of the above-mentioned items with the UNION. Section 8. When an employee is expressly assigned to perform the duties of a position allocated to a different classification that is temporarily unoccupied, and such assignment is for 40 or more continuous regular hours, the employee shall be paid for all such hours at the employee's current salary rate when assigned to work in a lower or equal class or at a rate within a higher range which is equal to the minimum rate for the higher class or one (1) step higher than the employee's current salary, whichever is greater. In order to qualify for such higher rate, the employee must perform that work which distinguishes the higher classification from the employee's regular class in terms of level of responsibility, types of duties, and/or quality and quantity. Rotation of employees through a position in a higher class for the purpose of avoiding payment of out of class pay is a violation of the intent of the out of class pay agreement. Section 9. Work shifts shall be considered part of the day and date on which they begin. Section 10. A weekend differential of $.95/hour shall be paid to employees required to work on any shift(s) that start on either Saturday or Sunday as part of their regular schedule. Effective September 30, 2018 weekend differential of $1.00/hour shall be paid to all employees required to work on any shift(s) that start on either Saturday or Sunday as part of their regular schedule. Such weekend differential shall be paid in addition to other forms of premium compensation for which the employee qualifies. Section 11. Employees who are specifically required or authorized by the EMPLOYER to use foreign or sign language skills shall be compensated for such work according to the following terms and conditions: A. Employees who provide foreign language or sign language interpretation at the request of the EMPLOYER shall give consideration receive $9.40 per day in addition to equalizing their regular salaries for any work day on which such services are performed. This additional compensation shall not exceed $47.00 for any one payroll period. (Please note that employees will need to enter the distribution of overtimeinformation for this differential on their timesheets). Section 12. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within provide an internal meal pass in the amount of $6.00 when employees work Section 13. An employee expressly designated by the EMPLOYER to be in charge in the absence of a supervisor, conduct formal peer training of a new employee, or perform lead worker responsibilities shall receive a differential of $1.10 for each hour worked or so designated. Section 14. In the event the EMPLOYER exercises its discretion to close a department, work unit lists allowing site or workplace due to an emergency, including inclement weather, employees who were scheduled to volunteer work but could not due to such EMPLOYER decision may use accrued leave (vacation, sick leave, compensatory time, deferred holiday) to cover the hours missed. Further, with the approval of the EMPLOYER, an employee may be allowed to make up the time by working additional hours. Section 15. Approved vacation hours shall count as hours worked for both scheduled and the purposes of computing overtime pay. Section 16. Extra Hours (not same day) 1. Non premium pay to include–overtime, bonus, or other premium pay by seniority 2. Overtime by seniority 3. If no one signs up, then the hours will be assigned to the least senior employee. This involuntary assignment will rotate in inverse seniority. A list will be maintained to track the rotation. Example: Least senior, then next least senior on up the list to the most senior employee then repeat with the least senior employee. If the Employer identifies the need to fill last minute/same day extra hours due to unforeseen circumstances (e.g. ill call, unexpected leave) the hours will be offered to employees on a first come first serve basis with non-scheduled overtimeovertime granted first if feasible. Overtime opportunities If more than one employee expresses interest in the shift at the same time, the tie breaker for offering the shift will be based on seniority. These employees would need to be qualified and eligible to work the extra shifts. Section 17. Employees expressly assigned by the EMPLOYER to remain in “On Call-Off Premises” status shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis receive $2.50 for each hour so assigned. Section 18. Unless specifically provided in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom another section of the voluntary list after Article, the officer has base pay rate or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked eightunder any provisions of this AGREEMENT.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing herein shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employeesemployees thereto, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PARTpart-TIME time or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE limited duration employee is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked For non-exempt employees, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY base pay rate or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYERemployee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Section 5. Worked hours in excess of an averaged eighty (80) hours per payroll period for exempt employees as designated in the Article herein titled "Salary Rates" shall be compensated at the regular base pay rate or one hour compensatory time for each hour worked. Unscheduled emergency work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday shall be compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's base pay rate or one and one-half (1 1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked. To be eligible for compensation for work performed in excess of eighty (80) hours in a payroll period or for unscheduled emergency work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday, approval for such work must be made by the employee's immediate supervisor. Employees shall have the right to inform the EMPLOYER of their preference for cash payment or compensatory time. Compensatory time may be accrued to a maximum balance of forty (40) hours. Compensatory time may not be carried over from one calendar year to the next and shall be liquidated by the close of each year either by the employee taking the time off or the balance being paid off in cash at the employee's base pay rate. EMPLOYER approval for compensatory time off shall be the same as that required for vacation. Section 6. Employees shall be available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the EMPLOYER. Section 7. The base pay rate or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked under any provisions of this AGREEMENT. Section 8. In 2016, a shift differential of $.95 per hour shall be paid to all employees who work on an assigned shift where at least five (5) hours of the shift occur between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. In 2017, the shift differential will be $1.00 per hour. Such shift differential shall be paid in addition to other forms of premium compensation for which the employee qualifies. LPNs will receive a differential of $1.20 per hour for shift, $1.45 per hour for permanent nights, and $.90 per hour for weekends. In 2017 weekend shall be $1.00 per hour. In 2016, Medical Examiner's Investigative Assistant and Medical Examiner's Technician will receive a shift differential of $1.30 per hour. In 2017, Medical Examiner’s Investigative Assistants and Medical Examiner’s Technicians will receive $1.40 per hour for shift differential. Section 9. Employees called to the work site by the EMPLOYER shall be compensated paid for the period hours actually worked at their base pay rate but not less than three (3) hours. An extension Such payment shall be either in cash or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify compensatory time off as determined by the employee for the three (3) hour minimumEMPLOYER. Section 610. The Should the EMPLOYER intend to institute flex time, job sharing or work tasking, it shall give consideration first meet and confer on any of the above-mentioned items with the UNION. Section 11. When an employee is expressly assigned to equalizing perform the distribution duties of overtimea position allocated to a different classification that is temporarily unoccupied, and such assignment is for 40 or more continuous regular hours, the employee shall be paid for all such hours at the employee's current salary rate when assigned to work in a lower or equal class or at a rate within a higher range which is equal to the minimum rate for the higher class or one (1) step higher than the employee's current salary, whichever is greater. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each In order to qualify for such higher rate, the employee must perform that work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed which distinguishes the higher classification from the voluntary lists employee's regular class in terms of level of responsibility, types of duties, and/or quality and quantity. Rotation of employees through a position in a higher class for the purpose of avoiding payment of out of class pay is a violation of the intent of the out of class pay agreement. Section 12. Work shifts shall be considered part of the day and date on which they begin. Section 13. In 2016, a rotating basis weekend differential of $.90 per hour shall be paid to all employees required to work on any shift(s) that start on either Saturday or Sunday. In 2017, the weekend differential will be $1.00 per hour. Such weekend differential shall be paid in order addition to other forms of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given premium compensation for which the necessity employee qualifies. In 2016, LPNs will receive a differential of $.90 per hour for weekends. In 2017, LPNs will receive $1.00 per hour for weekends. In 2016, employees in the job classifications of Medical Examiner's Investigative Assistant and Medical Examiner's Technician shall receive a weekend differential of $1.30 per hour. In 2017, Medical Examiner’s Investigative Assistant and Medical Examiner’s Technicians will receive $1.40 per hour for weekend differential. Section 14. Approved vacation hours shall count as hours worked for purposes of computing overtime. Section 15. Employees who are specifically required or authorized by the EMPLOYER to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names use foreign or sign language skills shall only go be compensated for such work according to the bottom following terms and conditions: A.. Full-time employees who are regularly required to use foreign language or sign language skills in addition to other job duties shall receive a salary differential of $47.50 per payroll period. This differential shall be pro-rated on the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightbasis of scheduled hours for part-time employees. This differential will be in effect for all compensated hours including compensated leaves.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (80) hours per payroll period Employees shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible available for overtime premium work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted excused by the EMPLOYER. Section 5. The BASE PAY RATE or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked under any provisions of this AGREEMENT. Section 6. Employees called to the work site by the EMPLOYER shall be compensated paid for the period hours actually worked at their BASE PAY RATE but not less than three (3) hours. An extension Such payment shall be in cash. Section 7. Should the EMPLOYER intend to institute alternate work schedules (i.e. 10 hour shifts), flex time, job sharing or early report work tasking, it shall first meet and confer on any of the above-mentioned items with the UNION. Section 8. Consistent with the HR Rules, when an employee is expressly assigned to perform the duties of a position allocated to a regularly scheduled shift different classification that is temporarily unoccupied and such assignment is for duty does not qualify forty (40) or more continuous REGULAR HOURS, the employee shall be paid for all such hours at the employee's current salary rate when assigned to work in a lower or equal class; or at a rate within a higher range which is equal to the minimum rate for the higher class; or a minimum of three (3) hour minimum. Section 6percent higher than the employee's current salary, whichever is greater. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightSee H.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-PART- TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked For NON-EXEMPT employees, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTOvacation/ PTO hours) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the employee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Overtime premium shall be provided in the form of either cash payment or compensatory time as determined appropriate by the EMPLOYER, provided employees shall have the right to indicate their preference to the EMPLOYER on a per pay period basis. Compensatory time may not be carried over from one calendar year to the next and will be liquidated by the close of each year either by the employee taking the time off or the balance being paid off in cash at the employee’s BASE PAY RATE. EMPLOYER approval for compensatory time off will be the same as that required for vacation/PTO. Section 5. Employees called to work For EXEMPT employees (as designated in the Article “Salary Rates”), worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO hours) in excess of an averaged eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be compensated at the regular BASE PAY RATE or one hour compensatory time for each hour worked. Unscheduled EMERGENCY work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday shall be compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's BASE PAY RATE or one and one-half (1 1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked. To be eligible for compensation for work performed in excess of eighty (80) hours in a payroll period worked but not less than three or for unscheduled EMERGENCY work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday, approval for such work must be made by the employee's immediate supervisor. Employees shall have the right to inform the EMPLOYER of their preference for cash payment or compensatory time on a per payroll period basis. Compensatory time may be accrued to a maximum balance of forty (340) hours. An extension or early report Compensatory time may not be carried over from one calendar year to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the next and shall be liquidated by the close of each year either by the employee taking the time off or the balance being paid off in cash at the employee's BASE PAY RATE. EMPLOYER approval for compensatory time off shall be the three (3) hour minimumsame as that required for vacation/ PTO. Section 6. The EMPLOYER Employees shall give consideration be available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to equalizing such unless excused by the distribution of overtimeEMPLOYER. Section 7. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer BASE PAY RATE or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order same hours worked under any provisions of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightthis AGREEMENT.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

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WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-12 hour shifts) or an average averaged eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER.at Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated for the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities opportuni¬ties shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ Officers names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eighteight (8) hours of voluntary overtime. Overtime not covered through the voluntary overtime lists will be assigned to that officer(s) with the least Adult Corrections Facility seniority in inverse order and in rotation progressing to the officer(s) with the most Adult Corrections Facility seniority subject to the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. The voluntary overtime list shall be zeroed out and reposted each month. Section 7. The EMPLOYER shall designate work units. Assignment of employees to designated work units shall be at the discretion of the EMPLOYER. Section 8. When the EMPLOYER determines changes in work schedules are necessary, at least twenty-four (24) hours advance notice shall be given to employees and posted whenever practicable. Except when not practicable, should it become necessary to change work schedules without twenty-four (24) clock hours prior notice, the EMPLOYER shall pay for those hours worked outside of the employee's regular work schedule hours at a rate of one and one-half times his/her regular base pay rate. Section 9. Employees shall be available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the EMPLOYER. Section 10. The BASE PAY RATE or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked under any provisions of this AGREEMENT

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-PART- TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked For NON-EXEMPT employees, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTOvacation/ PTO hours) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the employee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Overtime premium shall be provided in the form of either cash payment or compensatory time as determined appropriate by the EMPLOYER, provided employees shall have the right to indicate their preference to the EMPLOYER on a per pay period basis. Compensatory time may not be carried over from one calendar year to the next and will be liquidated by the close of each year either by the employee taking the time off or the balance being paid off in cash at the employee’s BASE PAY RATE. EMPLOYER approval for compensatory time off will be the same as that required for vacation/PTO. Section 5. Employees called to work For EXEMPT employees (as designated in the Article “Salary Rates”), worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO hours) in excess of an averaged eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be compensated at the regular BASE PAY RATE or one hour compensatory time for each hour worked. Unscheduled EMERGENCY work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday shall be compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's BASE PAY RATE or one and one-half (1 1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked. To be eligible for compensation for work performed in excess of eighty (80) hours in a payroll period worked but not less than three or for unscheduled EMERGENCY work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday, approval for such work must be made by the employee's immediate supervisor. Employees shall have the right to inform the EMPLOYER of their preference for cash payment or compensatory time on a per payroll period basis. Compensatory time may be accrued to a maximum balance of forty (340) hours. An extension or early report Compensatory time may not be carried over from one calendar year to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the next and shall be liquidated by the close of each year either by the employee taking the time off or the balance being paid off in cash at the employee's BASE PAY RATE. EMPLOYER approval for compensatory time off shall be the three (3) hour minimumsame as that required for vacation/ PTO. Section 6. The EMPLOYER Employees shall give consideration be available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to equalizing such unless excused by the distribution of overtimeEMPLOYER. Section 7. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer BASE PAY RATE or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order same hours worked under any provisions of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightthis AGREEMENT.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (80) hours per payroll period Employees shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible available for overtime premium work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted excused by the EMPLOYER. Section 5. The BASE PAY RATE or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked under any provisions of this AGREEMENT. Section 6. Employees called to the work site by the EMPLOYER shall be compensated paid for the period hours actually worked at their BASE PAY RATE but not less than three (3) hours. An extension Such payment shall be in cash. Section 7. Should the EMPLOYER intend to institute alternate work schedules (i.e. 10 hour shifts), flex time, job sharing or early report work tasking, it shall first meet and confer on any of the above-mentioned items with the UNION. Section 8. Consistent with the HR Rules, when an employee is expressly assigned to perform the duties of a position allocated to a regularly scheduled shift different classification that is temporarily unoccupied and such assignment is for duty does not qualify forty (40) or more continuous REGULAR HOURS, the employee shall be paid for all such hours at the employee's current salary rate when assigned to work in a lower or equal class; or at a rate within a higher range which is equal to the minimum rate for the higher class; or a minimum of three (3) hour minimum. Section 6percent higher than the employee's current salary, whichever is greater. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightSee H.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-12 hour shifts) or an average averaged eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER.at Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated for the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities opportuni¬ties shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ Officers names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eighteight (8) hours of voluntary overtime. Overtime not covered through the voluntary overtime lists will be assigned to that officer(s) with the least Adult Corrections Facility seniority in inverse order and in rotation progressing to the officer(s) with the most Adult Corrections Facility seniority subject to the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. The voluntary overtime list shall be zeroed out and reposted each month. Section 7. The EMPLOYER shall designate work units. Assignment of employees to designated work units shall be at the discretion of the EMPLOYER. Section 8. When the EMPLOYER determines changes in work schedules are necessary, at least twenty-four (24) hours advance notice shall be given to employees and posted whenever practicable. Except when not practicable, should it become necessary to change work schedules without twenty-four (24) clock hours prior notice, the EMPLOYER shall pay for those hours worked outside of the employee's regular work schedule hours at a rate of one and one-half times his/her regular base pay rate. Section 9. Employees shall be available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the EMPLOYER. Section 10. The BASE PAY RATE or premium compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked under any provisions of this AGREEMENT

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is shall be an averaged eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, schedules and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays work days and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workloadwork load. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PARTpart-TIME time or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE limited duration employee is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shiftovertime. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- full-time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY emergency or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two paid (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTO) in excess of the designated work shift forty (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (8040) hours per payroll period work week shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY base pay rate or one and one-half (1 ½1/2) hours compensatory time for each hour worked worked, subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYERemployee's immediate supervisor or his/her designee. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated available for overtime work, holidays and night shifts when assigned to such unless excused by the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimumEMPLOYER. Section 6. The EMPLOYER Unless specifically provided in another section of this Article, the base pay rate or premium compensation shall give consideration to equalizing not be paid more than once for the distribution same hours worked under any provisions of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightthis AGREEMENT.

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

WORK SCHEDULES - PREMIUM PAY. Section 1. This Article is intended only to define the normal hours of work and to provide the basis for the calculation of premium pay, if any. Nothing shall be construed as a guarantee of hours of work per day or per week. Section 2. A payroll period is eighty (80) hours of work within a fourteen (14) calendar day period, except as may otherwise be defined in this AGREEMENT. Section 3. Work shifts, work breaks, staffing schedules, and the assignment of employees, shall be established by the EMPLOYER. A. Where staffing schedules are routinely subject to change, a staffing schedule showing the regular workdays and work hours of all employees shall normally be prepared and posted at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance of their effective date. Such staffing schedules, once posted, will only be modified when necessitated by unscheduled employee absences and unscheduled changes in workload. A temporary change in the staffing schedule of a PART-TIME or LIMITED DURATION EMPLOYEE is not a staffing schedule change for purposes of this Article. Employees may mutually agree to exchange days, shifts shifts, or hours of work with the approval of their supervisor provided such change does not result in the payment of overtime or accrual of compensatory time. Hours worked as part of a shift exchange shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee would otherwise be entitled to overtime compensation, and that each employee will be credited as if they had worked their normal schedule for that shift. B. If changes concerning length and/or start and end of shifts for a work unit are to be made in existing full- time shifts, the EMPLOYER shall notify the UNION in advance of implementing the proposed changes and will provide the UNION the opportunity to meet and confer with respect to the proposed changes and their effect on employees. Such meet and confer sessions shall be conducted prior to the implementation of the change, except where an EMERGENCY or other unpredictable condition makes this impractical. C. Employees shall normally be granted an unpaid lunch break and two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute relief periods during each full work shift of eight hours or more at times designated by the EMPLOYER. In some situations, work demands may on occasion preclude the granting of an uninterrupted lunch break or relief period. Section 4. Worked For NON-EXEMPT employees, worked hours (including approved paid vacation/PTOvacation/ PTO hours) in excess of the designated work shift (8 hours or more, e.g., such as 10 or 12-hour shifts) or an average eighty (80) hours per payroll period shall be overtime and compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's REGULAR RATE OF PAY or one and one-half (1 ½) hours compensatory time for each hour worked subject to the provision that no employee shall be eligible for overtime premium unless prior approval of the overtime work was granted by the EMPLOYER. Section 5. Employees called to work shall be compensated for the period worked but not less than three (3) hours. An extension or early report to a regularly scheduled shift for duty does not qualify the employee for the three (3) hour minimum. Section 6. The EMPLOYER shall give consideration to equalizing the distribution of overtime. The EMPLOYER will post monthly within each work unit lists allowing employees to volunteer for both scheduled and non-scheduled overtime. Overtime opportunities shall when practicable be distributed from the voluntary lists on a rotating basis in order of Adult Corrections Facility seniority given the necessity to maintain continuing institutional operations. Officers’ names shall only go to the bottom of the voluntary list after the officer has worked eightforty

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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement

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