CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) (2022-2025)

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ARTICLE VII 7.0 OVERTIME 7.1 General Policy for Overtime Work. When it shall be determined to be in the public interest for employees to perform overtime work, or in an emergency situation, the City Manager, the Department Head, or a duly authorized representative of the City Manager or the Department Head, may require an employee to perform overtime work. 7.2 Definition. Overtime work for those on a 5/40 work schedule is defined as: A. That authorized or required time worked in excess of the normal workday, tour of duty, or workweek schedule for the particular classification and organizational unit of au employee. A workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of one hundred sixty-eight (168) consecutive hours —seven (7) consecutive twenty-four (24) hour periods -as designated by the appointing authority. An employee's work schedule within the workweek shall not be changed to avoid payment of overtime; provided, however, nothing shall abridge management's right to establish and change work schedules and assignments in accordance with the rights of management contained in Article XIX. B. Work on observed holidays or work on any regularly scheduled non -work day of which there shall be two (2) per week, if work on any regularly scheduled non -work day is worked at management's direction. 7.3 Computation of Forty (40) Hour Workweek. In computing the forty (40) hour workweek, the following type of work hours shall be included in the computation: actual work time, jury/witness leave, and bereavement leave. Any combination of these work hours in excess of eight (8) hours per day (except for employees on a 4/10 or the 9/80 work schedule) or forty (40) hours per week shall entitle the employee to overtime compensation, Paid time off for vacation leave, all unpaid leave, Association release time and compensatory time off shall not be credited towards the forty (40) hour workweek. No employee shall work overtime hours unless authorized by the department head or their designee. 7.4 All FLSA nonexempt employees working under the "9/80" work schedule shall earn overtime for all hours worked after the first forty (40) hours in a FLSA work week as required under FLSA. Should the City modify the manner by which it pays overtime (FLSA) to members of other miscellaneous bargaining units, CASA agrees to reopen this topic for discussion. 7.5 Compensation for Overtime. A. The preferable method by which overtime shall be compensated is by monetary payment, at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's regular rate of pay, subject to the provisions of Section 7.5(C). CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) MOU: JULY 1, 2022 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025 Page 20