2008-81 AUTHORIZING CONTRACT PAY AND BENEFITS - AFSCME LOCAL 268, GENERAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES

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For each credit earned toward a baccalaureate or graduate degree at an accredited college or university 1 credit For each new certification earned for a job-related skill (not involving CEUs or college credits) 1 credit For each continuing educational unit (CEU) earned for a job-related skill 1 credit Payment - Incentive Pay will be determined semiannually and will be paid pro rata bi- weekly. (b) A premium will be paid annually at the end of the fiscal ye�r per the following sche- dule to any employee who maintains and uses for the City's benefit the following certification(s) for any portions of that fiscal year: Certified Pesticide Applicator - $300 Certified Pesticide Operator - $150 IEPA Certified Drinking Water Supply Operator—Class D - $300 The premium for the water supply operator license applies only to employees in the Water Dis- tribution Section of the Water Management Department. Section 7. For purposes of administering this agreement, a crew in the Engineering and Infrastructure and Water Management Departments is defined as two employees working as a group, one of which is a Crew Chief, or three or more employees working together as a group, one of which is either a Crew Chief or an employee receiving out of classification pay as a Crew Chief. For this section, the term "employee" does not include seasonal or temporary em- ployees. Section 8. Upon implementation of the Emergency Communications Specialist clas- sification, the date for subsequent annual performance evaluation shalll be the anniversary date of the employee's appointment to City service or of the employee's appointment to County ser- vice. The date for annual evaluations shall be adjusted upon the employee's appointment to a higher skill level and shall thereafter be the anniversary date of the employee's appointment to the higher skill level. ARTICLE 7 OVERTIME Section 1. (a) Those employees paid on an hourly basis shall be paid one and one-half times the respective employee's regular hourly rate for all authorized h�urs worked over forty in any work week. Upon agreement between the employee and his/her supervisor, an employee shall be eligible to receive compensatory time off at the rate of time and one-half for all autho- rized overtime hours worked rather than pay. If such leave is not taken during the fiscal year (by April 30), as required herein, the employee shall be compensated for such overtime during the first full pay period of the following fiscal year, by separate direct payroll deposit. Accumula- tion of compensatory time shall be limited to no more than 40 hours per employee at any given time. Overtime hours worked beyond that shall be paid at the overtime rate, and not eligible for conversion to compensatory time. 10