City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manual

City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manuał

1. Although not required by Federal or State law, the City normally permits a 30 or 60 minute meal period for full time employees. Employees who are scheduled to work more than a four hour shift are normally allowed a meal period. 2. A bona-fide meal period of 30 minutes or more is not work time. If an employee is required or permitted to work during the meal period, then this must be counted as work time. Example: If an administrative assistant eats at the desk, continues to answer the phone, receives the public, etc., the meal time would have to count as work time and counts toward total worked hours for the workweek. C. On Call and Call Back Time 1. “On Call” time or “Waiting to be engaged” is unpaid time when the non-exempt employee is required to remain in a stand-by status or available by phone away from the work site and the employee is able to use the time for their own purposes. 2. When a non-exempt employee is “On Call” for the work week, the employee will receive seven (7) hours of straight time. This time is considered non-work time and will count only towards total straight hours for the work week. 3. Compensable “On Call” or “Engaged to Wait” time is when a non-exempt employee is required to remain on-call at or near the City workplace or where the calls are so frequent, i.e., every 30 minutes, that the employee cannot use the time effectively for the employee’s own personal purposes. 4. When a non-exempt employee is actually called back to duty, “Call Back” time, all time from the point the employee leaves home until the employee returns is considered work time. Compensable time may also include the time answering a call by phone depending on the duration of time spent on the call. D. Travel Time - Determination of whether travel time is counted as hours worked for non exempt employees depends upon all of the following circumstances. 1. Travel commuting from home to work and work to home is not work time. 2. Time spent by an employee in travel as part of the normal work day activities, such as travel from job site to job site is work time. Compensable travel time is the same as other compensable work time. Compensable travel outside the normal work hours is not automatically overtime hours. Overtime pay or compensatory time off is determined by the total work hours including any compensable travel time. 3. Travel performed away from the Greensboro area requiring an overnight stay may not be all compensable time. Overnight travel time outside the normal work schedule may or may not count as hours worked and such situations should be referred to the P&C Employee Success Partnership before determining final travel arrangements.

Table of Contents A B C D E F H I J K L List of Appendices G

E - Fair Labor Standards

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