3-711 - Overtime for Off-Duty Telephone Calls

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Employees who must conduct police-related business over the telephone while off-duty will be granted overtime providing they abide by the following standards:

1. Employees shall conduct all telephone business during work hours whenever possible. Only calls that cannot be made or received during normal work hours because of emergency or exigent circumstances will be considered legitimate for granting overtime. Requests for overtime for calls that could have reasonably been made or received while at work or for calls that were not an absolute business necessity will be denied.

2. When court-related business is conducted off-duty and according to the above provisions, employees must record and submit to Court Liaison personnel the following:

• Time the conversation started and ended;
• Name of the person with whom they were speaking;
• Subject matter of the conversation;
• Phone number of the person with whom the business was conducted;
• Supervisor’s confirmation and approval

Confirmation of all the above facts will be required before any overtime is granted.

Overtime will be accrued according to the following rules:

• No overtime will be granted for calls less than or equal to 15 minutes.
• Straight time will be granted for business-related calls that exceed 15 minutes.