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ORDINANCE NO. 2014-10 Page 3 additional benefits or overtime pay for their part-time employment. Further, part-time employees are entitled to no benefits unless specifically granted elsewhere in this ordinance. All full-time employees will serve a probationary period not to exceed 12 months from his or her date of hire. During the probationary period, an employee can be dismissed by the Municipality as it sees fit. 153.05 STANDARD WORK WEEK. (a) All rates in the compensation ordinance are based on a forty (40) hour weekly schedule, paid on a bi-weekly basis. (b) The standard work week shall be forty (40) hours in a seven (7) day period for full- time employees of the Municipality. 153.06 OVERTIME. (a) Except for those employees not covered by the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, or the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, all full-time employees and all eligible part-time employees shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the employee's regular hourly rate for that time actually worked in excess of forty (40) hours during a seven (7) day work week when approved by that employee's department head for employees who are normally scheduled to work a forty (40) hour week. Part-time firefighters shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's regular hourly rate for time actually worked in excess of fifty-three (53) hours in a seven (7) day work period. (b) All overtime shall be approved in advance by an employee's department head, unless there exists an emergency that threatens the health, safety or welfare of the Municipality. (c) If an employee is scheduled for training or seminars while on vacation or holiday, the employee shall be paid regular time and restored that vacation or holiday time lost. No overtime will be paid in this situation. (d) Time changes relevant to daylight savings shall not entitle the Municipality to dock pay nor to pay additional time on those days, as same will balance out. (e) All full-time employees, shall, at their election, be able to accrue compensatory time at one and one-half (1-1/2) times the number of overtime hours worlced in lieu of cash payment at the same rate that overtime would have been calculated (time and one-half vs. straight overtime), up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours. In the event an employee works overtime when his "compensatory time banlc" is at eighty (80) hours, he or she shall be paid cash for such overtime. Employees shall have the option of cashing out up to twenty-four (24) hours of comp tune at the end of each calendar year. Any unused comp time will be cashed out upon the employee's separation from employment. (f) Holidays, compensatory time, personal/miscellaneous days and vacation time, shall be considered time actually worked. Sick leave and bereavement leave will not be considered time actually worked for the purposes of calculating overtime.