LOCAL 701 Agreement 2007-2010

ARTICLE XXI    HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME

Section 21.1. Purpose.

This Article is intended only to provide a basis for calculating straight-time, overtime and premium payments. There shall be no pyramiding of overtime or premium payments, nor shall same be paid under more than one (1) provision of this Agreement for the same hours worked.

Section 21.2. Workday and Workweek.

The workweek for payroll purposes shall commence at 00:01 Sunday and end at 24:00 the following Saturday. The normal workweek of the employee shall be forty (40) hours consisting of five (5) eight (8) hour days. The normal working hours per day shall be eight (8).

Section 21.3. Overtime and Premium Payments.

Time and one-half of the straight-time hourly rate shall be paid as follows:

1. For all hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours in a workday.
2. For all hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in a workweek.
3. For all hours worked on the sixth or seventh day of any workweek.

Employees required to work in excess of twelve (12) consecutive hours shall be paid two (2) times their basic straight-time hourly rate for all hours in excess of twelve (12).

Section 21.4. Overtime for Work on a Regular University Holiday (excluding the Friday after Thanksgiving).

An employee who is required to work on a regular University Holiday shall be compensated therefor at two and one-half (2 1/2) times his basic hourly rate, for a minimum of three (3) hours or the actual hours worked, whichever is the greater; or, at the option of the employee, shall be compensated at one and one-half (1 1/2) times his basic hourly rate for a minimum of three (3) hours or the actual hours worked, whichever is the greater, and receive an additional day off with eight (8) hours of pay at his basic straight-time hourly rate. Such day off shall be taken within seven (7) days preceding the holiday or fourteen (l4) days following the holiday.

Employees who work the day after Thanksgiving shall be paid straight-time hourly rate for hours worked, and will receive equivalent time off within thirty (30) days of the holiday.

Section 21.5. Off-site Work.

Employees will be compensated an additional $2.00 per hour above their wage rate for all assigned hours worked off site, provided the off site work location is greater than a sixty (60) mile radius from the Central Shop’s campus address.