ACE Members,
We recently received a couple great questions about overtime and call back time. Here’s a quick reference:
- If it’s a weekend and you have to work, scheduled or not, it’s call back (minimum 4 hours OT)
- If it’s the end of your workday and it’s extended, it’s overtime (hours worked * 1.5)
- If you go home at the end of your workday and come back, it’s call back (minimum 4 hours OT)
See Article 13 – Hours and Overtime (also copied below)
- Overtime triggers when you work beyond your regular workday, or 40 hour workweek, or the sixth and seventh consecutive days of employment.
- Double-Overtime triggers when you work beyond 12 hours in a workday.
- Overtime requires pre-approval/authorization from a supervisor/manager. Faculty members cannot authorize overtime.
- Workers have the choice between pay or accruing comp time – managers do not decide.
13.2 Overtime
The District is subject to the following provisions concerning overtime which provide for overtime payments to all eligible workers who work over eight hours in one day in a five- day work week, over ten hours in one day in a four-day work week, over nine hours in a 9/80 or 4/36 workweek, or over 40 hours in any work week, or on the sixth and seventh consecutive days of employment.
13.2.1 Approval for a worker to work overtime will come only from department supervisors, division administrators, or supervisors at a higher level. Approval will be based upon legitimate scheduling or load problems which cannot be solved through reassignment or adjustment of workload and will be governed by the availability of budgeted funds.
13.2.2 A worker authorized to work more than 40 hours per week will receive compensation or compensatory time at a rate equivalent to one and one-half times the normal hourly rate as determined by current contract pay, except when a worker works on a holiday, in which case the worker will be paid both regular pay and pay at the overtime rate for the hours worked.
Workers whose work schedule requires them to work beyond 12 hours per day shall be paid at a rate equivalent to double the normal hourly rate as determined by current contract pay for the hours worked beyond 12 hours.
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13.2.4 Call Back Time
Occasionally a worker may be called back for work in the evening or on a weekend to accommodate a special need. In such cases, travel time to and from home will be counted as time worked. In order to make the disturbance of normal time off worthwhile, the pay for combined work and travel time shall be for a minimum of four hours.
In Service,
Scott Olsen (he/him) | ACE President
https://acefhda.org | scott.olsen@acefhda.org
650-949-7789 | M-F 8:30am-5:00pm