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ARTICLE 17 <br />OVERTIME <br />17.1 It is the policy of the County not to work beyond the regularly scheduled work <br />week unless conditions warrant. <br />17.2 Management may schedule overtime beyond the standard hours when it is in the <br />best interest of the County and is the most practical and economical way of <br />meeting workloads or deadlines. <br />17.3 Employees will be required to work overtime when requested by management <br />unless excused by management. Employees may volunteer to work overtime <br />and should communicate that interest to their supervisors. Employees who have <br />volunteered shall be selected to perform overtime work before non -volunteers, <br />unless management determines that work-related reasons exist for selecting <br />non -volunteers. Overtime will only be scheduled for those employees fully <br />qualified to perform the work required. In all work units, overtime will be <br />equalized among employees who are similarly classified, except as addressed in <br />Section 17.4 and 17.5 below. All other factors being the same, seniority may be <br />used as a selection factor if employees are equal on the list. The County agrees <br />to maintain an overtime distribution list in each work unit by classification and <br />agrees to use such list in the distribution of overtime assignments. Employees <br />will be charged for all overtime hours worked or refused. If overtime is offered <br />and no one accepts the overtime, the employee that has actually worked the <br />least amount of overtime on the list shall be required to work the overtime <br />assignment. Employees will be charged for overtime if they cannot be contacted <br />at their designated phone numbers. The equal distribution of overtime does not <br />prevent the County from requiring employees that are already engaged in an <br />unexpected overtime work assignment to continue to work. <br />17.4 For overtime computation, vacation leave, holidays, funeral leave, jury duty, and <br />military leave shall be considered as time worked. Absences from work while on <br />sick leave will not be counted as time worked for overtime computation. <br />Compensatory time shall not be used as compensation for overtime. Bargaining <br />unit employees who have used sick leave will be called in for mandatory <br />overtime during the workweek in which they used sick leave only after bargaining <br />unit employees who have not used sick leave during that workweek have been <br />called in. <br />17.5 If the agreed upon overtime distribution procedures outlined above do not meet <br />the operational needs of a work unit, the parties agree that the overtime <br />distribution procedures may be modified with mutual written agreement by the <br />parties. <br />22 <br />