Common use of Emergency Pay Clause in Contracts

Emergency Pay. a. In the event employees are required to respond to emergency calls outside the normal workday (except for those extraordinary circumstances involving natural and other disasters that would entail the closing of schools and other District facilities that is addressed in paragraph b below), employees shall receive compensatory time equal to an amount that is two (2) times the number of overtime hours worked in this capacity beyond forty (40) hours worked in that workweek. Emergency calls for this purpose include only those calls that require an employee to return to a work site to address a bona fide emergency after leaving the site at the end of the regular workday. When a natural or other disaster, including severe weather that threatens life and property, causes one or more District worksites to be closed by the Superintendent (see Article X), the following pay policy shall apply to those employees authorized by the Superintendent to work during such circumstances (this policy shall be in effect only during the period identified by the Superintendent). Employees required to work during such period shall receive monetary payment at a rate of two (2) times their normal rate of pay or compensatory leave equal to two (2) times the number of hours worked, as determined by the department head, regardless of the total number of hours worked during that workweek and regardless of whether employees are also receiving their regular pay during all or a portion of such period.