49-01 Amend 149 Employment Provisions

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Please Substitute for Ordinance No. 49-01, Placed on 1st Reading and Referred to Committee ~f the Whp!Q qn [Q/[/~[) Placed on 2nd Reading [0/[5/0[. ORDINANCE NO. 49-01 BY: Corrigan, FitzGerald, George, Roth, nJe l, S th. AN EMFRGENCY ORDINANCF to amend Chapter 149, Employment PFovisions of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood. WHEREAS, Chapter 149 has been not been updated since 1995; and WHEREAS, through the process of collective bargaining, many of the employment provisions .for members of the collective bargaining units have changed; and WHEREAS, City employees should have some consistency in the benefits of their em ployment throughout the various departments and divisions within the City; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the eadiest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III. SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD. and that it is necessary to provide for the daily operation of municipal departments in that it is necessary to provide notification to employees and service providers regarding certain changes contained herein in order to facilitate said changes. Now Therefore. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO 149.01 For the follows: (a) DEFZNITJ:ONS. purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined as "Hourly employee" means all persons who furnish labor or personal service to the City and are compensated therefor by wages fixed, computed or paid on an hourly basis and paid directly by the City, except employees who furnish labor to the City Hospital and are cOmpensated from the Hospital Fund. (bi "Week" means the period beginning at 12:01 a. m. Monday and ending at 12:00 midnight the following Sunday. (c) "Work week" means the period in a week dudng which houry employees shall be available for work. It regularly shall be within the period frOm Monday to the following Friday, both .inclusive. It shall be forty hours except that in any week in which there occurs a holiday, as hereina~cer defined, it shal be thirty-two hours. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the power of the City as employer to require overtime labor when necessary. (d) "Work day" means the period in any day during which hourly employees shall be available for work. It regularl'y shall be eight hours in each consecutive twenty-four hour period from Monday to Fdday, both inclusive. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the power of the City as employer to require overtime labor when necessary. (e) "Full-fime~ permanent hourly employee" means an hourly employee who has been employed by the City full time at least sixty consecutive days, but shall exclude Lakewood Hospital employees, temporary employees, .seasonal employees, police cadets, school guards and public works inspectors. (fi "Division head" means the person who is in charge of the operation of any division named in the City Charter, the work of which is performed in any part by one or more hourly employees. (g) "Regular time" means the rate of Pay for work performed by an hOurly employee during a workweek and 'dUring a work day. (hi "Overtime" means the rate of pay for work performed by an hourly employee in excess of a work day or a work week, or for work performed by such employee on Saturday, Sunday or any holiday as hereina~cer defined. In the event an employee's regular work week is other than Monday through. Friday, he shall not be paid overtime unless such emplOyee works in excess of forty hours per week or eight hours per day.