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Policy committee adopts overtime pay for maintenance employees
Summary
The Tangipahoa Parish School Board policy committee voted Oct. 21 to formalize overtime pay for maintenance employees, specifying time-and-a-half for Saturdays and double pay for Sundays and holidays regardless of whether an employee has reached a 40-hour workweek.
The Tangipahoa Parish School Board Policy Committee of the Whole voted Oct. 21 to adopt an administrative revision formalizing overtime compensation for maintenance employees.
Under the adopted language, maintenance employees will receive overtime compensation at 1.5 times their regular rate for work performed on Saturdays, regardless of whether the employee has completed a 40-hour workweek, and double pay for work performed on Sundays or holidays.
Committee members moved and seconded the measure; there was no substantive discussion recorded before the committee called for the question. Roll call showed unanimous recorded support from members present and the chair declared the motion passed.
The change places an existing practice into board policy so the payment rules are explicit in policy documents rather than a standing administrative practice. The board did not specify an effective date in the transcript.
No speakers raised legal or budgetary objections in the meeting record. The administration read the proposed policy language aloud during the meeting; that reading served as the primary explanation for the change.
