A. Regular working hours of city employees shall consist of either five consecutive days of eight hours per day or four consecutive days of 10 hours per day. Regular working hours of all city employees must be approved in advance by the mayor. With approval from the mayor, a department head may assign an employee a different workweek than provided herein in order to adequately staff their department and serve the public.

B. The mayor may designate certain full-time positions in the classified service that require the performance of managerial or professional duties as being subject to this subsection. Notwithstanding subsection (A) of this section, employees in these positions are expected to work during the whole of the workday, their work is expected to require 2,080 or more hours of work per year, and they are expected to work as many hours as are necessary to perform their jobs. An employee in a position designated under this subsection that is eligible for overtime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act shall be paid overtime in accordance with WMC 3.60.070(B).

C. The standard workweek shall consist of the period during which an employee is regularly scheduled to work 00:00:00 Monday to the following 23:59:59 Sunday, although a department head may establish a different workweek of seven consecutive 24-hour periods if necessary to adequately staff a particular department. The standard workday commences at 00:00:00 hours and ends at 23:59:59 hours on the same day. (Ord. 22-15(AM) § 5, 2022; Ord. 08-14(AM) § 3, 2008; Ord. 03-33(SUB)(AM) § 2, 2003)