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ARTICLE VI <br />6.0 OVERTIME <br />6.1 General Policy for Overtime Work. When it shall be determined to be in the public <br />interest for employees to perform overtime work, or in an emergency situation, the City <br />Manager, the Department Head, or a duly authorized representative of the City Manager <br />or the Department Head, may require an employee to perform overtime work. <br />6.2 Definition. Overtime work is defined as: <br />A. That authorized or required time worked in excess of 40 hours per work week. A <br />workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 consecutive hours - 7 <br />consecutive 24 -hour periods - as designated by the appointing authority. An <br />employee's work schedule within the workweek shall not be changed to avoid <br />payment of overtime; provided, however, nothing shall abridge management's <br />right to establish and change work schedules and assigmnents in accordance with <br />the rights of management contained in Article XX, infra. <br />B. Work on any regularly scheduled non -work day of which there shall be two (2) <br />per week, if work on any regularly scheduled non -work day is worked at <br />management's direction. <br />6.3 Computation of Forty (40) Hour Workweek. In computing the forty (40) hour <br />workweek, the following type of work hours shall be included in the computation: actual <br />work time, jury /witness leave and bereavement leave. Any combination of these work <br />hours in excess of forty (40) hours per week shall entitle the employee to overtime <br />compensation. <br />However, paid time off for vacation leave, sick leave, holiday leave, compensatory time <br />off, Union President's Leave and Union Business Leave shall not be credited towards the <br />forty (40) hour workweek, unless the employee is required to work by management. <br />6.4 Compensation for Overtime. <br />A. The preferable method by which overtime shall be compensated is by monetary <br />payment, at one and one -half (1 Y2) times the employee's regular rate of pay, <br />subject to the provisions of Subsection "C" below. <br />B. Should the Department Head determine that the best interests of the City will be <br />served thereby, his or her designee may permit an employee to be compensated <br />for overtime work by taking paid compensatory time off at the rate of one and <br />one -half (1 %) times the employee's regular base rate of pay. <br />C. Employees shall have the option to convert a maximum of eighty (80) hours of <br />time and one -half (1 '' /Z) paid overtime (in compensation for 53 1/3 overtime hours <br />15 <br />