Item 10 - Fair Labor Standards Ace 7 (K) Exemption for Safety EmployeesF
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CITY OF POWAY
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TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM:. James L. Bowersox, City Mana
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INITIATED BY: Kay D. jimno, Director of trative Service
DATE: April 15, 1986
SUBJECT: Bair Labor Standards Act 7(K) Exemption
for Safety Employees
ABSTRACT
Due to the Fair Labor Standards: Act, whish became effective today,
April ,15, 19861 it is necessary for the: City of Poway to formally;
declare a 7(K) exemption for fire service personnel.`
BACKGROUND
The Fair Labor Standards Act specifies that overtime pay at time and
K one-half must be paid to all employees who work in excess of a 40 -hour
workweek. For fire service personnel, the 7(K) exemption provides
that such overtime is due far, work performed in excess of a 53 -hour'
wo-rkweek..,
The: average workweek for Poway fire personnel is. 56 hours. Every 24
days firepersonnel work eight regular twenty-four hour- shifts for
a total of 19.2, hours.. The 7W exemption provides: that overtime at
time and one-half is due after a total of 182 hours- in 24 days.
Therefore, 1.0 hours of overtime at time and one-half will normally m
be due at the end of a. 24 -day cycle
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that. Council approve the attached resolution pro-
viding for the 7(K) exemption for fire service personnel.
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Attachment
1.. Resolution Declaring the 7(K) Exemption for Safety Services
Personnel:
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APP 15 1986 ITEM 10
A. RESOLUTION OY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF'THE :CITY OF POWAY, CALIFORNIA
DECLARING THE 7(K) EXEMPTION
OY THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT`
AS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN SAFETY SERVICE'S_ PERSONNEL
WHEREAS the 7(K) exemption of the:FLSA.provides that fire
service personnel may have an alternative Workweek than 40 hours if a
City so -declares; and
WHEREAS, the 7(K) exemption_provides that overtime at time and
one-halfshall be paid. for all hours: worked in excess of a 53 -hour
workweek.
NOW,. THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Poway does hereby;
resolve- and order as follows:
Section 1. The City of Poway elects to declare the 7(K)
exemption as it pertains to Safety Service personnel who work twenty-
four hour shifts.,
Section, 2. The work period for twenty-four hours shift public
safety employees shall. be a, regularly- recurring twenty-four day period,,
commencing at 12:00 midnight on April 14, 1986. Schedules within the
work period shall be as determined by City staff and current Memoranda
of understanding.
.PASSED . ADOPTED AND APPROVED bY Y the Cit. Council of the City of Po
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Cali,fornia, at a regular meeting thereof this 15th day of April, 1986..
Carl. R Kruse, Mayor
ATTEST:
Marjorie K. Wahlsten, City Clerk
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