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