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E - Fair Labor Standards

City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manuał

Table of Contents A B C D E

Adjusting, Controlling, and Compensating For

Overtime Under The FLSA

Number: E-4

Revision: 7

Effective Date: 06-01-2014

1.0 POLICY

ork schedules can be adjusted, in some circumstances, to provide the flexibility needed to

meet heavy workload or emergency situations without significant additional costs. This

policy outlines departmental responsibilities in controlling or limiting overtime under the Fair

Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and overtime payments.

2.0 PURPOSE

n keeping with the City’s core value of stewardship, the City of Greensboro expects departments

to deliver effective services to its citizens in as efficient a manner as reasonably possible.

Departments should adjust schedules whenever possible to minimize overtime. When adjustment

of schedules is not possible to avoid overtime, the City expects departments to compensate

employee with compensatory time rather than payment of overtime wages.

3.0 SCOPE

This policy applies to Non-Exempt employees. FLSA Exempt employees are not eligible for premium/

overtime pay, including any compensation calculated at one and one-half times their regular rate of pay.

4.0 DEFINITIONS

4.1

FLSA

- The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a Federal law establishing the minimum

wage rate, overtime pay, recordkeeping requirements, prohibiting gender-based wage

discrimination between men and women performing the same work, and child labor

standards affecting full time and part time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State,

and local governments.

4.2

Overtime

- All hours worked in excess 40 in a week or for sworn Police and Fire

personnel, 171 and 212 hours respectively in a 28 day period (or a proportional amount in a

lesser number of days).

4.3

WorkWeek

- A regular work week is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours

- seven consecutive 24-hour periods designated as the official work week for each employee.

Unless otherwise designated, this period will be from 12:01 amWednesday through 12

midnight the following Wednesday.

4.4

Non-Exempt Employee

- An employee who is subject to the minimum wage, overtime

and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).