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<br />4938-6770-8028 v1 -17 - <br /> <br />7.2 Alternative Workweek <br /> <br />A. Alternate workday or workweek periods may be authorized by the Department Head <br />or City Manager to accommodate temporary business needs such as special <br />scheduled events or projects, or work-related certification testing, that may require <br />work on a weekend or different hours than the standard workweek (see section 7.1 <br />for definition of standard workweek). Depending on the event or project, this could <br />involve: <br />B. Alternative workweeks may also be established by mutual agreement between a <br />Department Head and Employee for a more regular and ongoing basis, subject to <br />City Manager approval. Alternative work schedules may only be used when the <br />Department Head decides that public service and access to city services are not <br />negatively impacted, staffing remains cost effective, no extra overtime costs are <br />created, and the employee's performance is meeting or exceeding expectations. <br />C. Represented employees may initiate requests to work alternate work schedules, <br />including staggered work schedules, subject to the approval of the Department Head <br />and City Manager. <br />D. Approved schedule changes will begin coinciding with the beginning of a pay period <br />and must conform with appropriate schedules as required by the Fair Labor <br />Standards Act (FLSA) and any applicable laws. <br />E. Departments requiring employees to work a non-voluntary alternative schedule shall <br />first solicit volunteers. In the event no volunteers are found, the department shall <br />equally distribute or rotate the assignment among qualified employee s. <br />F. Notification of non-voluntary schedule changes shall be given to the employee with <br />no less than twenty-one (21) calendar days of notice of such change. <br /> <br />Examples of Alternative Schedules include: <br /> <br /> Altering the workweek to include a workday on Saturday and/or Sunday. In this <br />instance, the employee’s alternate day(s) off shall be scheduled at the beginning or <br />end of the employee’s remaining workweek, except under circumstances of unusual <br />scheduling, workload, or by mutual agreement with the Department Head, when the <br />day(s) off may be midweek. <br /> A 9/80 schedule, where an employee works eight (8) 9-hour days and one (1) 8-hour <br />day, and gets an additional day off every other week. <br /> A 4/10 schedule, where an employee works four (4) 10-hour days each week. <br /> For Police Dispatchers and Police Dispatch Supervisors only: <br />Elongating the workday to 9, 10, or 1012 hours, and shortening the workweek. <br /> <br /> Among qualified employees, who When working a 12-hour workday, Police <br />Dispatchers and Police Dispatch Supervisors shall be afforded equal opportunity, <br />volunteers shall be first solicited for such duty, and three (3) days shall be allowed <br />for this solicitation. Where insufficient volunteers exist after such solicitation, such <br />duty shall be equally distributed among qualified employees, who shall in no case be <br />given less than three (3) weeks’ notice of such dutyreceive two 30-minute meal <br />breaks. <br /> <br />Page 84 of 200