When calculating hours worked for overtime purposes, weeks cannot be averaged. In addition, only productive work hours are counted to determine hours worked in excess of 40. Holiday, vacation, sick and other kinds of leave time are not considered productive work hours. Employees are also required to report use of leave time on Leave of Absence forms. Employees are responsible for accurately reporting time worked.
Supervisors are responsible for authorizing and verifying time worked and reported by employees.
Failure to accurately report work and leave time constitutes falsification of official time records and is grounds for disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. Employees must be compensated for overtime with the accrual of compensatory time except where granting compensatory time off is impractical. Employees should use earned compensatory time within 12 months of the end of the workweek in which the overtime was worked. Where appropriate, employees should use accrued compensatory time prior to using accrued vacation time. In all cases, approval to work overtime must be granted by the employee's immediate supervisor.