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11 <br /> <br />City of Little Canada Personnel Policy <br /> SECTION 8 - HOURS OF WORK <br /> <br />Work Schedules <br /> <br />Working hours of City employees may vary among the different departments and may vary by <br />assignment within a department as need dictates. In general, however, the normal workday shall be <br />eight (8) hours of work and the normal work week shall be forty (40) hours of work. The normal work <br />week is defined as a forty (40) hour period worked sometime from 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning <br />through 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday evening. Supervisors may require their employees to work overtime in <br />situations where it is required in order to ensure the orderly and efficient operation of the government. <br />Normal office hours shall be 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday, unless otherwise stated <br />by the supervisor and/or City Administrator. <br /> <br />Office staff marking their timesheets to reflect extra minutes worked outside of normal office hours, <br />shall not be considered to be working overtime unless prior approval has been granted by the City <br />Administrator or a supervisor. <br /> <br />Rest Periods <br /> <br />Employees will be provided rest periods as required by law. Employees will be allowed a paid break <br />of at least fifteen-minutes, or enough time to utilize the nearest convenient restroom, whichever is <br />longer, within each four-hour shift. Non-exempt employees are not required to record the starting and <br />stopping times of rest periods, which are counted as working time and will be paid. The time of the <br />break is subject to the approval of the supervisor. Failure to take rest breaks as scheduled, taking <br />unauthorized rest breaks, or taking longer rest breaks than permitted, may be subject to discipline, up <br />to and including termination. Unused rest breaks may not be accumulated, nor may they be used for <br />any purpose other than a mid-shift rest period. Rest breaks should be scheduled to avoid disrupting <br />City business and taken at the site of working operations. <br /> <br />Lunch Breaks <br /> <br />A. Employees will be provided meal periods, including lunch breaks, as required by law. Each <br />full-time employee is required to take a lunch break, for which there is no compensation, <br />approximately midway through a six-hour work period. Uninterrupted lunch breaks do not <br />count as hours worked for non-exempt employees and are unpaid. Non-exempt employees <br />must record the starting and stopping times on their time records of their lunch break. This <br />lunch break period is a minimum of one-half hour in duration and is measured from the time <br />work is stopped until it is resumed. Lunch breaks can be up to one (1) hour in length subject to <br />approval by the supervisor and provided the normal workday is achieved. <br /> <br />B. Lunch breaks shall be scheduled by the supervisor to ensure continuity of services. Failure to <br />take lunch breaks as scheduled, taking unauthorized lunch breaks, or taking longer lunch breaks <br />than permitted, may be subject to discipline, up to and including termination. <br /> <br />