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working other than the normal work day be scheduled to work more than eight (8) <br />hours, however, each employee has an obligation to work overtime or callbacks, if <br />requested unless unusual circumstances prevent the employee from so working. <br />10.4 Service to the public may require the establishment of regular work weeks that <br />schedule work on Saturdays and/or Sundays. <br />ARTICLE XI – OVERTIME PAY <br />11.1 Hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours within a twenty-four (24) hour period <br />\[except for shift changes\] or more than forty (40) hours within a seven (7) day <br />period will be compensated for at one and one-half (1½) times the employee’s <br />regular base pay rate. <br />11.2 Overtime will be distributed as equally as practicable. <br />11.3 Overtime refused by employees will, for record purposes under ARTICLE 11.2, be <br />considered as unpaid overtime worked. <br /> <br />11.4 For the purpose of computing overtime compensation, overtime hours worked shall <br />not be pyramided, compounded, or paid twice for the same hours worked. <br /> <br />11.5 Employees to receive time and one-half (1½) for any hours worked on Saturday or <br />Sunday, or for any hours worked on City Special Programs. <br /> <br />ARTICLE XII – CALL BACK <br />An employee who is recalled to work during the employee's scheduled off-duty time shall <br />receive a minimum of two (2) hours' pay at one and one-half (1½) times the employee's <br />base pay rate. An extension of or early report to a scheduled shift for duty does not <br />qualify the employee for the two (2) hour minimum. A second recall within two hours of <br />the first recall shall not be compensated for except for the actual time worked over the two <br />hours. Example: A call-out is received at 1:30 p.m. and lasts for one hour. The <br />employee is again called out at 3:00 for one-half hour. Total pay would be two hours at <br />overtime rate. If the second or subsequent call would extend the total time beyond two <br />hours from the first call compensation would be for the total time worked at the overtime <br />rate. <br /> <br />ARTICLE XIII – LEGAL DEFENSE <br />13.1 Employees involved in litigation because of negligence, ignorance of laws, non- <br />observance of laws, or as a result of employee judgmental decision may not <br />receive legal defense by the municipality. <br /> <br />13.2 Any employee who is charged with a traffic violation, ordinance violation or criminal <br />offense arising from acts performed within the scope of the employee’s <br />employment, when such act is performed in good faith and under direct order of <br /> 7 <br /> <br />