City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manual

City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manuał

4.5 Overtime - All hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a work week, or for sworn Police and Fire personnel, 171 and 212 hours respectively in a 28 day period (or proportional amount in lesser number of days). 4.6 Pay Period – A pay period is a fixed and regularly recurring period every two weeks (bi weekly). 4.7 Work Week - A regular work week is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours -- seven consecutive 24-hour periods designated as the official work week for each employee. Unless otherwise designated, this period will be from 12:01 am Wednesday through 12:00 midnight the following Wednesday. Overtime is calculated after the completion of a work week. A work week cannot be changed or adjusted by the department. However, the workweek can be changed upon review by People & Culture (P&C) Employee Success Partnership (ESP). Hours cannot be carried from one work week to another work week. 4.8 Work Period - A regular work period is a 28 consecutive day period of time designated (or other officially designated period from 7 to 28 days), as the work period for qualifying law enforcement and fire suppression employees under FLSA Section 7(k). 4.9 Work Schedule - The hours each day and days each week that an employee is normally assigned to work. Work Schedules may be adjusted by the department. 5.0 ORGANIZATIONAL RULES 5.1 Hours Worked - General A. Work time or “hours worked” is all time an employee “is suffered or permitted to work.” It is of no consequence where such work takes place, i.e., in the customary workplace, at home, or anywhere else. Work time includes all time spent in physical or mental exertion, controlled or required by the City, and pursued primarily for the City and its business. Infrequent and insignificant periods of time beyond the scheduled working hours which cannot be precisely recorded for payroll purposes may be disregarded. This rule applies only where there are uncertain and indefinite periods of time involved (a few seconds or a few minutes in duration). This time is considered “de minimis.” Any time that can be practically ascertained must be reported and paid. B. Work time includes most related preliminary activities of the employee’s principle duties. Examples include sharpening or cleaning tools, setting up equipment, fueling or servicing vehicles, waiting for instructions, moving about the City to perform assigned duties, attending departmental meetings, changing clothes on City premises where special uniforms or clothing are required by the City and employees are not allowed to wear them to work, emergency medical treatment for on-the-job accidents, and other similar work-related activities. C. In addition to the activities included above as work time, non-exempt employees must be paid for all time spent in activities which are defined as work time in Section 5.2.

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