RULE TITLE: Overtime/Compensatory Time Off under Certain Circumstances.

RULE NUMBER: Policy 6.12.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Compensating nonexempt employees for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a week.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The revision would recognize that it is the policy of the District to grant eligible employees the use of compensatory time earned in place of cash payment for hours worked in excess of 40 hours during a work week; requiring supervisors to keep records acknowledging an employee’s awareness of the policy; specifying a maximum number of sixty (60) hours of compensatory time per year (from August 16 of the current year through August 15 of the following year); and requiring that compensatory hours not used during that designated accrual period will be paid to the employee at his/her rate of pay in effect as of the last pay date in August (to be paid by the last pay date in September); recognizing that exempt employees, at the discretion of their department head, may be allowed to work a flexible schedule based on the needs and workload of the department, provided they will continue to work an eighty-hour (80) work schedule during that pay period. If the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement conflict with this Policy, the collective bargaining agreement will prevail.

SPECIFIC RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: Fla. Stat. §§ 1001.41(2); 1001.43(6), (11); 1012.23(1).

LAWS IMPLEMENTED: Fla. Stat. § 1001.43(6); 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219; 29 C.F.R. § 516; 29 C.F.R. § 548; 29 C.F.R. § 778.

CONTACT PERSON: Darron Davis, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT of the proposed rule development may be obtained without cost from the School District's web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm .

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE: Development of the proposed rule is anticipated to be considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on September 13, 2006, anticipated to begin at 2:15 p.m. in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. AGENDA: A copy of the agenda will be available by September 6 on the District's Web site. Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this hearing is asked to advise the agency at least 48 hours in advance by contacting the Board clerk at 434-8139. This hearing is open to the public.

Publish: August 30, 2006