Common use of SPECIAL ALERT Clause in Contracts

SPECIAL ALERT. An employee who, for purposes of being available to respond to an extraordinary non-routine situation (such as, but not necessarily limited to, a demonstration or a large special event) is placed on Special Alert, and is restricted as to location (including home, regular duty station or another location) or activities (for example, the employee is limited in activities but can sleep, exercise, or engage in some recreational activities) while off duty, shall be paid one-fourth (1/4) of his or her regular straight time rate for those hours during which he or she is in such status, excluding any hours actually worked. (Hours actually worked shall be compensated at the normal rate, or, if applicable, the overtime rate.) Off duty time spent as a training assistant or in-resident supervisor on a training assignment shall be considered as time spent on Special Alert. Special Alert status shall not apply to the routine carrying of pagers by employees or to the performance of rotating “duty officer” assignments, or to the designation of employees for purposes of establishing a call-in sequence following the evening shift or preceding the day shift. A manager may change the level of required readiness to respond to changes in the circumstances in the field (but may not be made in the absence of changes in the circumstances in the field to avoid payments required by this Article) so that an employee may move from Special Alert status to Immediate On Call, or from Immediate On Call to Special Alert.