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ARTICLE 24 WAGE AND HOUR

The City has elected to utilize the 207(K) (also referred to as “7(K)”) option for all or some certified law enforcement employees. Members are required to submit accurate and complete time entries on forms, or a platform provided by the City. Time entries shall cover a 14-day period and shall include time in and out each day. Falsification of these records shall be cause for discipline up to and including termination.

1. For record purposes, a workweek shall begin at 0001 each Saturday and end at 2400 hours the following Friday. An assigned work schedule is defined as the schedule an officer is assigned to work and expected to be present for barring an exigent operational or personal circumstance that would require the need for schedule alteration, flexing, overtime, call out, etc.

2. A normal workday is defined as the hours an officer works pursuant to their assigned work schedule. A pay period is defined as a 14-day period of 80-hours that coincides with the City’s established payroll calendar, in accordance with the FLSA 207(k) option applicable to certified, law enforcement officers. 3. All hours worked shall be rounded to the nearest quarter of an hour, as follows:

MINUTES WORKED TIME CHARGED or LEAVE USED MINUTES HOURS

____________________________________________________________ 0-7 00 .00 8-22 15 .25 23-37 30 .50 38-52 45 .75 53-60 60 1.00

4. Overtime is defined as all hours worked in excess of the Member’s normal workday. Unless otherwise provided for in this Article, overtime is paid in accordance with Paragraph 3, above. In the event a member utilizes leave of any type to account for absence during their normal workday and they are mandated to report for duty for any reason during the hours in which they are utilizing accrued leave, overtime hours cannot be earned. Additionally, overtime may not be earned for any off-shift detail worked during a member’s normal workday without the consent of the Chief of Police or designee.

5. For members who are designated on-call by the Chief of Police or their designee, each incident of call-out to perform an on-call activity outside of that Member’s normal workday will result in the Member being credited with a minimum of three (3) hours of overtime or compensatory time, provided the member was not on-duty at the point in which the call-out occurred.

6. If a member complies with a subpoena that requires the member to appear either for deposition or in court to give testimony concerning an incident which was related or initiated directly as a result of the member's employment with the Department, that member shall be credited with a minimum of three (3) hours of overtime or compensatory time, provided the member was not on-duty when such appearance was required pursuant to the subpoena. When a member is scheduled to be in Court or in deposition three hours or less before their shift begins, they may only claim the time up to their shift starting time, not the three-hour minimum. Travel time shall not be considered compensable time.

7. If a member receives a subpoena that requires the member to appear either for deposition or in court to give testimony concerning an incident which was related or initiated directly as a result of the member's employment with the Department and the subpoena is cancelled within an hour before its start time, that member shall be credited with a minimum of one (1) hour of overtime or compensatory time, provided the member was not on-duty when such appearance was required pursuant to the subpoena. When a member is scheduled to be in Court or in deposition less than one hour before their shift begins, they may only claim the time up to their shift starting time, not the one hour minimum. Travel time shall not be considered compensable time.

8. If a member is ordered by a supervisor to report to a meeting, that member shall be credited with a minimum of three (3) hours of overtime or compensatory time, provided the member was not on duty at the time of the meeting. When a member is scheduled to be at a meeting three hours or less before their shift begins, they may only claim the time up to their shift starting time, not the three-hour minimum. Alternatively, a member may, with supervisor approval, flex their schedule to start and end their shift early so that the member is on duty during the meeting.

9. Mealtime shall be considered hours worked for officer’s subject to response during their meal period.

10. Except for as provided in Section 3, for purposes of computing overtime, leave with pay will be counted as hours actually worked towards a normal workday.

11. Overtime hours shall be compensable by compensatory time or cash payment at the discretion of the Chief of Police or their designee. Compensation by time or cash will be at a rate of 1½ hours for each hour of overtime worked. At the discretion of the Chief of Police or their designee, compensatory time may be accrued up to a maximum of 200 hours.

An employee who separates from the City shall be compensated for unused compensatory time. At the time of payment, employees, or their designated

beneficiaries, shall receive full payment for accrued compensatory time at the employee’s current base rate of pay. Under no circumstances shall an employee receive payment for compensatory time in excess of 200 hours.

12. Insofar as possible, the Chief of Police and Command and Unit Supervisory Staff shall arrange the employment and work program of the department in such a way that overtime is not required. However, public necessity or emergency situation may require overtime on the part of City employees. All overtime must be authorized in advance by the Chief of Police or designee. Additionally, members are prohibited from flexing or adjusting their assigned work schedule with the intent of earning overtime. Any change to a member’s assigned work schedule that will result in overtime must be approved in advance by the member’s supervisor.

13. Attendance at any training course required by the City as essential to employment shall be considered hours worked. Attendance is further defined as time actually spent in training or re-training and does not include study time or time spent in personal pursuits even though the employee is quartered at a training facility during this period.

14. Travel:

a. Normal home-to-work travel time, whether at a fixed location or at different job sites, will not be paid or considered as time worked for purposes of overtime computation.

b. Travel time that is required by the City and takes an employee outside of Broward, Palm Beach, or Dade county on an overnight basis, shall be counted as compensable time. Travel time is defined as the normal number of hours required to reach the final destination using the most efficient mode and route of travel.

c. The mode and route of travel shall be chosen by the Chief of Police or designee, and if this choice utilizes either airplane, train, or bus, time spent traveling between home and the transportation terminal is not compensable. d. If the employee chooses to use a means of transportation other than that chosen by the Chief of Police or designee, then the excess hours actually required to reach the destination will not be paid nor considered as time worked for purposes of over-time computation.