3.55.100 Pay for special types of appointments/assignments.
A. Temporary Appointments. The mayor shall set the starting pay of temporary employees at an appropriate level. Temporary employees do not accrue paid time off or other benefits provided to other employees under this title. However, if a temporary employee subsequently attains a regular full-time or part-time appointment, without a break in service, credit shall be given for service already rendered under the temporary appointment when computing the duration of probation but not when computing accrual of paid time off or other benefits provided to other employees under this title.
B. Acting Assignment. Upon approval by the mayor, an employee may be temporarily assigned, on a full-time basis, to accept the responsibilities for and perform work normally assigned to a position in a higher grade for seven working days or more. The employee shall receive a minimum upward pay adjustment of five percent in his/her normal rate of pay for all days served in the acting assignment retroactive to the first day of the acting assignment. An employee shall have the right to refuse an acting assignment at the higher pay rate without prejudice. All acting assignments will be approved by the mayor on a personnel status change form. The acting assignment shall end when the employee who previously held the position in the higher grade returns to work on a part-time or full-time basis. At the end of the acting assignment, the employee who was assigned to the position in the higher grade shall be paid at the same rate of pay he or she received prior to the acting assignment.
C. “Standby” and “Call Out” Pay.
1. With the approval of the mayor, a department head may designate one or more employees to be on standby on a day when the designated employee has no regular working hours. For each day on which an employee is designated to be on standby, but is not called out to work, the employee will receive two hours of overtime compensation at one and one-half times the employee’s normal hourly rate of pay.
2. An employee who actually is called out to work while on standby shall receive overtime compensation at one and one-half times the employee’s normal hourly rate of pay for the greater of two hours or the number of hours the employee actually worked when called out.
D. Emergency “Call Out” Pay.
1. An employee who is called out to work in response to an emergency outside of the employee’s regularly scheduled shift on a day when the employee is not designated to be on standby under subsection (C) of this section shall receive overtime compensation at one and one-half times the employee’s normal hourly rate of pay for the number of hours the employee actually worked when called out.
2. In this subsection, the term “emergency” means an occurrence, event, or situation that, in the judgment of the mayor or a department head:
a. Requires an immediate response to prevent death or injury to persons or damage to property or the environment, or otherwise to carry out the mission of the department effectively; and
b. Requires a response by employees who do not have regular working hours at the time when the response is required.
E. Shift Differential. Employees who are assigned to shifts that commence between 12:00:00 hours and 19:59:00 hours will be paid two and one-half percent above the rate normally received for daytime work in the same position, and employees who are assigned to shifts that commence between 20:00:00 hours and 03:59:00 hours will be paid five percent above the rate normally received for daytime work in the same position. Employees who are entitled to overtime in accordance with WMC 3.60.070 shall be paid the entire shift differential percentage for every hour of overtime worked during a shift that entitles them to receive shift differential pay. (Ord. 07-52 §§ 2, 3, 2007; Ord. 05-52 § 2, 2005; Ord. 03-43 § 3, 2003; Ord. 03-33(SUB)(AM) § 2, 2003)