Employment, Benefits, and Workplace
Compensatory Time
Scope
Staff employees
Policy Statement
Compensatory time is a legal method of limiting or avoiding overtime payments by altering non-exempt staff work schedules. Hourly staff members are given time off (without pay) to compensate for time worked. For example, if a staff member comes in early, works late or works on a weekend, that staff member may be scheduled for correspondingly fewer hours during the remainder of the week to limit the total hours worked to 37.5 or 40. However, the compensatory time must be scheduled and taken during the work week in which the extra hours were incurred; by the end of the work week (i.e., Wednesday at midnight) the staff member must be paid for all hours worked that week. Compensatory time may not be accrued and taken in a subsequent week or weeks.Exempt staff are not entitled to overtime pay although under special circumstances supervisors and managers have the discretion to grant time off with pay (comp time) to exempt staff that have worked substantial extra hours. In these cases the comp time does not need to be taken during the same work week. It may be taken at any later date.
Policy Administration
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Amended: February 2007
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