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<br /> 17 <br />ARTICLE 13 – OVERTIME <br /> <br />Recognizing that emergencies, vacations, sickness or other unforeseen conditions may require an <br />employee to work overtime, time-and-one-half of the employee’s regular hourly rate shall be paid under <br />any of the following conditions: <br /> <br />1. Suppression Personnel: All work performed in excess of the regularly assigned work shift. <br /> <br />2. Non-suppression Personnel: All work performed in excess of the regularly assigned work week. <br /> <br />Bargaining unit employees are subject to being called back to work to complete a shift. Employees called <br />back after 0800 of the same day to complete a shift shall be paid for a minimum of two (2) hours plus <br />actual hours worked excluding travel time. Non-suppression personnel employees being assigned work <br />excess of the regular assigned work week shall be paid for a minimum of two (2) hours plus actual hours <br />worked excluding travel time. <br /> <br />In the event that an employee is awarded an overtime shift, and the overtime is subsequently cancelled <br />within 12 hours of the report time, the employee shall be paid for a minimum of two (2) hours plus actual <br />hours worked. <br /> <br />As per Article 14, employees called in for multiple alarm incidents shall be paid for a minimum of three <br />(3) hours plus actual time worked from the time they report to the on-duty Battalion Chief or designee <br />either in person or from an Everett Fire Department fire station using a City phone. <br /> <br />All overtime, except for emergency work and mandatory education shall be recorded on an overtime list <br />as established by the Chief of the Department. Examples of mandatory education and overtime shall <br />include, but not be limited to, all certification and recertifications, holdovers, and all required training. <br />This list shall be audited by a union committee at least quarterly, to ensure that a fair and accurate <br />recording of hours is kept. To keep parity in the overtime hours, a differential of 24 hours shall be used. <br />Firefighters shall be called rank for rank until they average 24 hours ahead of officers. Then the Union <br />Auditing Committee shall submit to the Chief of the Department, in writing, that hours are not in parity <br />and officers shall be called rank for rank, until such time as the hours are as close to even as possible. It <br />shall be the responsibility of the Chief of the Department and the Union Committee to s ee that an equal <br />amount of hours as possible shall be divided among all members who are eligible in the Fire Department. <br /> <br />1. If on scheduled absences, i.e., vacation, special assignments, special offs, union officials time off, <br />where crew shortages are not created, and the overtime is in parity, then a person on the eligibility <br />list for that position shall be moved up in an acting capacity. <br /> <br />2. If no person on an eligibility list is available on a platoon, then rank for rank shall be called at the <br />rank of the absentee. <br /> <br />3. In the event that an officer of the same rank cannot be located to work an overtime shift, an <br />employee on the eligibility list for that rank shall be worked overtime. <br /> <br />The department shall maintain and post lists of all employees eligible to act within various ranks. The list <br />of qualified positions shall be maintained by the Chief of the Department and posted in all stations. <br />Should it become impossible to locate either an officer or the same rank or an employee who is eligible to <br />act in the rank, an employee who is eligible to take an examination AND has completed their workbook <br />for that rank may be worked on overtime.