2016-101 I.A.F.F. Local 505 Fire Association Contract

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Duty hours of such employees shall be served by the use of three(3)shifts, each of which shall serve 24 hours on duty and be off 48 hours. A duty day shall be from 6:40 A.M. to 6:40 A.M. the following day. The regular work week of Fire Inspectors, and employees assigned as Fire Inspectors, will not exceed forty (40) hours. The work week for Fire Inspectors, and employees assigned as Fire Inspectors, will be Monday through Friday; provided that, upon not less than fourteen (14) days notice,the Fire Chief or Fire Marshal may change the days worked of such employees. The scheduled work hours for Fire Inspectors will be between 07:00 and 19:00 hours. For any work schedule in excess of 8 hours per day, determination of holidays and portions thereof to be observed with paid time off will be made by the Fire Marshal for each employee,with consideration given to the employee's preferences.The Fire Marshal and the Fire Chief retain all rights provided to them by law and collective bargaining agreement to set and modify the work schedules of the Fire Inspectors and employees assigned as Fire Inspectors. Section 2. Regular Overtime. Overtime served by employees in the classified fire service who regularly work a 24-hour duty shift shall be paid for by the city at time and one-half the employee's straight time hourly rate of pay. The employee's straight time hourly rate of pay shall be calculated by dividing the employee's annual salary by his annual paid hours of 2704. Effective May 1, 2005, the employee's straight time hourly rate of pay shall be calculated by dividing the employee's annual salary by his annual paid hours of 2,688. Overtime will be served by seniority in accordance with a seniority list to be kept by the Chief of the Department, a copy of which shall be maintained and which shall show the date each employee was called and requested to serve overtime and the response from each such employee when called as to whether there was no answer or overtime duty was accepted or refused or the employee was unable to accept. If an employee who was called refuses overtime duty, he shall be automatically passed until a complete cycle of the seniority list has been made. Said seniority list shall pertain to tours of duty in the fire station only. In the event that an employee is found to have been improperly passed for overtime, the remedy for such loss will be as follows: the passed employee will be placed at the top of the overtime list that they were passed on. Section 3. FLSA Work Period and Kelly Day Cycle. The City shall establish an individual 19.5 consecutive day FLSA "work period" for each employee covered by this Agreement. The individual's Kelly Day cycle shall consist of two consecutive FLSA "work periods", the first of which commences at 06:40 on the first day of the Kelly Day cycle and the second of which commences at 18:40 on the 20th day of the Kelly Day cycle. Each employee's first duty shift of each Kelly Day cycle shall be the second day of that cycle, so that the employee's Kelly Day falls on the shift starting at 06:40 on the 20th day of his or her Kelly Day cycle, to ensure a Kelly Day off duty for each employee every thirteenth (13th) duty shift. Section 4. Call Back Overtime. Employees in the classified fire fighting service recalled to duty when the shift they are at that time serving with is off duty and when the reason for such recall is to supplement the shift then on duty to help control a fire or meet a similar emergency, shall be paid the actual time on duty but not less than two hours pay at the rate of one and one- half times the straight time hourly rate of such recalled employee for each hour overtime of recall duty. Section 5. Holdover or Shift Retention Overtime. Employees in the classified fire fighting service required to remain on duty when the shift they are at the time serving with would normally 12