Canine Pay a. An employee assigned full time to perform the duties of a canine handler shall receive $130 per month for care and maintenance of their assigned canine. This care and maintenance fee is over and above the reimbursements articulated in HPM 81.5, Drug Programs Manual.
Canine Pay. Officers who are routinely and consistently assigned to handle, train and board a canine in accordance with this section are eligible for Canine Officer/Animal Premium. Officers assigned to the canine unit are required to care for, train, groom, feed, and bathe their assigned dog. The parties agree that two hours per week is a reasonable amount of time to care for the canine. The Town compensates Canine officers a total of five (5) hours per week for additional time spent caring for the canine. Two (2) hours of this additional time is outside of the regular shift. The remaining three (3) hours is provided as release time. Call-back as defined in the MOU shall not apply for the purposes of caring for the dog. Compensation provided during the additional paid time and release time is mutually acknowledged to compensate for additional time required to care for, train, groom, feed, and bathe the assigned canine.
Canine Pay. Member(s) assigned to canine duty shall receive pay of $82 biweekly as compensation for the average time authorized and expended in the exercise, care, feeding, grooming, and training of the assigned canine. This amount has been calculated by the parties to represent approximately 45 minutes per day or 5.25 hours of overtime per week paid at one and one-half times the hourly rate of the federal minimum wage. This extra compensation is not to be considered base pay, premium pay, nor shall it be included for purposes of retirement benefit calculations or contributions. In addition, members shall be reimbursed for canine related expenses in the amount of $100.00 per month, calculated by the parties to represent food and other expenses reasonably and customarily incurred in the maintenance and care of the dog. This reimbursement is non receipted. Formatted: Strikethrough
Canine Pay. The City and the Association agree that a reasonable estimate of the time spent in the off-duty care and maintenance of the dog is 45 minutes per day. Time spent commuting from a canine officer’s home to work at the beginning or end or a regularly assigned shift shall not be considered as time worked for purposes of compensation.
Canine Pay. Police Officers assigned as canine handlers are required to care for their assigned animal, which shall include grooming, feeding, exercising, training, bathing and all other responsibilities associated with caring for a canine. Officers assigned as canine handlers shall receive additional pay in the amount of five percent (5%) when the Officer is responsible for the care of the dog. This amount is in recognition of the additional time required to care for the animal during non-regular duty hours, which the parties estimate in good faith as an additional two hours per week. This additional pay will compensate Police Officers fully for caring for their canine during non-regular duty hours. If the Officer is unable to perform as a canine handler due to a non-work related injury or other non- work related cause, for a period that exceeds 30 consecutive days, the five percent (5%) additional pay will cease. It will be reinstated when the handler returns to full duty and is functioning as a canine team. The stipend will also cease after 90 consecutive days should the dog not be able to work due to an injury or other medical reasons. During the time the Officer and dog are assigned and perform in the program, the City will provide a separate monthly maintenance allowance of two hundred dollars ($200.00) as reimbursement for housing, taking care of and feeding the dog. In the event the dog cannot work due to an injury or other medical reasons, the maintenance allowance shall continue for a period of up to ninety (90) calendar days from the date of the dog's disability. If it is medically determined during this ninety (90) day period that the dog will not be able to return to full duty, the maintenance allowance shall cease as of the date of such determination.
Canine Pay. Employees regularly assigned a dog as part of a canine assignment and 15 who are assigned responsibility for care, feeding and maintenance of the dog during what would 16 otherwise be off duty hours shall be paid five (5) hours of overtime at the rate of one and one 17 half (1.5) times the employee’s regular rate of pay for each full week the employee is so 18 assigned. Payment for such assignments lasting less than a full week shall be prorated so long 19 as it encompasses such ‘off-duty’ time.
Canine Pay. 13.13.1 Canine Handler shall be considered a competitive specialty assignment and each employee assigned to such duties shall be paid at Range 41.0 during each biweekly period of such assignment, in recognition of the additional specialized and continuing training requirements associated with such duties.
Canine Pay. When the Sheriff authorizes qualified individuals to function as a canine deputy, they shall be paid an additional four hours straight time per week, in addition to their regular pay, for such time as the canine deputy is actually assigned a dog to care for. This additional pay is to compensate the deputy for time spent feeding and caring for the dog.
Canine Pay. 19. 5.1 Assignment of a canine shall be at the discretion of the Chief. Each employee who is assigned to the duty of feeding, caring for and supervising police dogs, which duty is performed by the employee at his/her home and during hours when he/she is otherwise not on duty with the Police Department, shall be credited with 3.5 hours of overtime per week.
Canine Pay. 1. The City and MPOA agree that the average amount of time required for proper kennel care is 28 minutes per day, (or 0.47 of an hour per day). This equates to 6.58 hours per pay period (0.47 of an hour times 14 days per pay period). This is based upon a survey of all Modesto Police Canine Handlers. Kennel care includes, but is not limited to, time spent in feeding, grooming, and cleaning the kennel area and personal vehicle used to transport the canine. Sergeants, Corporals or Lieutenants will not be assigned to handle working canines, but may be assigned to train, direct, supervise or manage canine unit operations. Corporals or Sergeants so assigned will be compensated at time and one-half for hours required for such duties which occur outside of regularly scheduled duty hours.
