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

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B. Should the Department Head determine that the best interests of the City will be served thereby, they or their designee may permit an employee to be compensated for overtime work by taking paid compensatory time off in lieu of monetary compensation. C. Employees shall have the option with Department Head approval to convert a maximum of eighty (80) hours of time and one-half paid overtime (in compensation for fifty-three and one-third (53 1/3) overtime horns worked) to time and one-half compensatory time off benefits. Such compensatory time off shall be taken at the discretion of the employee when requested at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance, provided it does not unduly disrupt the operations of the agency. If the Department Head or their designee subsequently denies the requested compensatory time off, the employee and department shall mutually agree on a future date within one (1) year when the employee can use the paid compensatory time off. If the requested compensatory time off is not used within that one (1) year, such compensatory overtime will be paid off in cash. D. The compensatory time bank for employees has a maximum accrual limit of one hundred and sixty (160) hours. E. Because each hour of overtime worked is accrued on a time and one-half basis, compensatory time off shall be taken, and monetary payment shall be paid, on a straight -time basis. Also, upon termination, any earned, unused compensatory time off ("time -on -the -books") shall be paid on a straight -time basis. F. Time off with pay to compensate for overtime worked may be taken in increments as small as a half (1/2) hour. G. If compensatory time off is used in excess of that available, such excess compensatory time off shall first be deducted from any available vacation benefits, after which it shall finally be deducted from the next scheduled wage or salary payment. H. Time off with pay as compensation for overtime may not be granted or taken in advance of the overtime work for which the time off compensates. Before compensatory time off with pay may be taken, as herein provided, the overtime worked must have been recorded on official payroll records at or about the time the overtime work was performed. In the absence of such recording, no compensatory time off with pay will be permitted. Upon an employee's appointment to a position in which overtime may not be earned or upon an employee's separation from employment with the City by resignation, retirement, layoff, or otherwise, they shall forthwith be compensated for any overtime accumulated to the time immediately preceding such promotion or separation. 7.6 No Effect on Other Benefits. Overtime work shall not apply to the earning of employee benefits (retirement, holidays, vacation accrual, sick leave accrual, and employee insurance CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) MOU: JULY 1, 2022 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025 Page 21