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Policy 03.06 Differential Pay

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POLICY TITLE:

Differential Pay

POLICY NUMBER:

03.06

VERSION:

1.0

REVISED DATE:

May 16, 2017

REVIEWED DATE:

May 31, 2017

APPROVAL DATE:

March 22, 2018

EFFECTIVE DATE:

April 2, 2018

NUMBER OF PAGES:

2

A. OVERVIEW

1. Description and Purpose The following policy describes differential pay for the City of Saint Paul (City).

2. Applicability This policy applies to all employees of the City.

3. Failure to Comply Failure to comply with this policy may result in disciplinary action in accordance with any and all disciplinary policies of the City.

B. POLICY AND PROCEDURE

1. Differential Pay

a. On occasion, some Public Works employees may be called out for an emergency or to perform some public works function outside normal scheduled work hours.

b. Any Public Works employee that is called out for one or more of the reasons as stated above will receive differential pay of $1.75 per hour in addition to their regular hourly rate of pay; with the following conditions and stipulations:

i. Differential pay is only for emergencies or functions including: water, sewer, and/or electrical line breaks; power outages; equipment or vehicle breakdowns; snow removal; or other types of emergencies as deemed necessary by the City Manager.

ii. The employee is being “called out” to respond by their immediate supervisor, his/her designee, and/or the City Manager, and the Department Director or City Manager approves these hours on the employee’s timesheet.

iii. The employee being “called out” to respond is working outside their regularly scheduled work hours.

iv. Differential pay only applies to hours worked up to forty (40) hours a week. Any hours worked over forty (40) hours a week will be paid at the regular overtime rate of pay.

v. The emergency or function that the employee is responding to cannot be addressed during the employee’s regularly scheduled work hours. If it is determined that an employee did not perform a function during regularly scheduled work hours and that employee or another employee was “called out” after hours to perform that function or respond to an emergency due to lack of performance, the employee may face disciplinary action.

c. In order to ensure that the City has a sufficient workforce to respond to emergencies or after hours public works functions, the Public Works Director and/or City Manager will develop and post an on-call schedule for each month.

C. FORM(S)

1. None.

D. REFERENCE(S)

1. None.

E. DEFINITION(S)

1. None.

F. POLICY HISTORY

1. This is a new policy.