Quoting the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) “Unless exempt, employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time and one-half their regular rates of pay.”

As far as “on-call”, pay should be provided if services are performed–and only if the person has to take care of a job-related situation. Quoting the Department of Labor–The DOL Wage and Hour Division has stated that if an employee “is required to remain on call on the employer’s premises or so close thereto that he cannot use the time effectively for his own purposes,” the waiting time is considered hours worked under the FLSA and is compensable. On the other hand, an employee who is “merely required to leave word at his home or with company officials where he can be reached” after his regular working hours is not entitled to compensation for his on-call time.

I am interested to see what decisions will be made based on the previous years spending and the new budget. Great call Ms. Ann.

Juanita– DOD employee, HR Representative, and Labor Employee Relations Advisor

If you require someone to stand by, you have to pay him.

David for antislavery amendment

Another approach they can consider is “flexing your time”. Essentially this is done 2 ways;

1) Rotate the days off to include a Saturday as a regular work day for one employee and a Sunday for the other. In turn, one of their days off are during the week. Example, if I have to work Saturday, my days off would be Sunday/Monday. If I had to work Sunday, my days off would be Friday/Saturday,

2) If an employee get called out for 4 hours at night (say 8pm-12am) they would flex their time later during the week and take off those accumulated 4 hours. They could choose to come in late or leave early one day but the goal is to NOT work over 40 hours.

Just my 2 cents, we’ve been practicing this for many years and “overtime” is a profanity here.

It’s great that the checks and balances are working for the city. Too bad this wasn’t noticed sooner. I’m not blaming the employees and they should be paid for being on call since you pretty much can’t go anywhere or do too much of anything when on call.

yes I think McCall was Boss Hog. but probably because he had to be and chose to be.

do you want want ECUA in here running the utility? Not no but heck NO! Their rates are high and a myriad of problems ensue.

and we want to keep or incorporation so we can file for Grants. The County of D5 has proved some what to not be particularly supportive, such as in RESTORE $ etc.

Keep Century going, maybe not perfect but better than the alternative

Just what does Gary Riley, & Mc Murray Jackson do anyway?

Warm up a seat..push glasses down on their nose shuffle paper work around?

Move over and get Stead back on there, at least he does more than just show up and pretend to listen..