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12.5 All employees scheduled to work six or more hours per shift are required to take a <br /> half-hour, unpaid meal break. Employees shall receive one (1) unpaid thirty (30) <br /> minute meal break at the middle of their shift and one paid fifteen (15) minute <br /> a.m. break and one paid fifteen minute p.m. break per eight (8) or nine (9) hour <br /> shift. With the approval of the employer, an employee may combine the 15 <br /> minute break(s) with their unpaid meal break. <br /> 12.6 Fire calls during working hours. An employee will be allowed to respond to fire <br /> calls as approved and determined by his/her department director, based on the <br /> work assignments and responsibilities of the employee. <br /> Employees responding to fire calls during regular work hours will be <br /> compensated at the same rate as his/her regular city position with no additional <br /> firefighter pay compensation. <br /> While off duty from his/her regular position and on vacation or compensatory <br /> time employees will receive firefighter pay when responding. <br /> 12.7 Fire calls during non-work hours. Employees will receive their normal firefighter <br /> compensation for fire calls and training that do not occur during the regular work <br /> hours of the regular position. <br /> Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employees will be paid <br /> overtime in accordance with the FLSA. Actual time worked will be used for <br /> determining overtime payment, with no consideration to the one-hour minimum <br /> call out pay provision for firefighter pay. By advance mutual agreement, overtime <br /> earned for performance of fire department activities may be paid at one and one- <br /> half times the employee's firefighter pay rate. <br /> ARTICLE 13 —OVERTIME PAY <br /> Hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours within a seven (7) day period will be <br /> compensated at one and one-half (11/2) times the employee's regular base pay rate. Paid <br /> holidays,bereavement leave,and sick leave shall be the only non-work days with compensation <br /> considered for purposes of computing overtime compensation. The Employer will not <br /> change the employees work schedule for the sole purpose of avoiding overtime <br /> compensation. <br /> 13.1 Overtime will be distributed as equally as practicable. The employer will <br /> document and post overtime hours worked, or refused by employees. The <br /> overtime document will be posted the first of each month. <br /> 13.2 Overtime shall be calculated to the nearest fifteen (15) minutes. <br /> 13.3 Employees performing emergency or mission critical snow removal on a weekend <br /> shall be paid time and one-half for hours worked. <br /> 10 <br />