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Perry County to trial overtime pay for highway after-hours call-outs, ending guaranteed 4-hour comp minimum
Summary
After extended discussion, Perry County commissioners voted Dec. 31 to move the highway department from a guaranteed four-hour comp-time minimum to an hour-for-hour overtime pay system (when employees have exceeded 40 hours) on a trial basis and to create an overtime budget line for tracking and payment.
Perry County commissioners voted Dec. 31 to change how the highway department is compensated for after-hours call-outs, moving from a guaranteed four-hour comp-time minimum to an hour-for-hour system that pays overtime when an employee has exceeded 40 hours in a workweek. The change will be implemented on a trial basis and an overtime line item will be established for tracking and payment.
Speaker 1, the meeting’s presiding official, introduced the agenda item after the personnel policy committee recommended aligning the highway department’s call-out compensation with other departments. "We're going to figure out a location…
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