PAP.4.6.040 Compensatory Time

(a) The LCOHA Human Resource Director, or designee, will classify and consistently review the classification of employees as either Exempt or Non-exempt. Exempt employees are compensated on a salary basis and will not accrue compensatory time or overtime for hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in a workweek. Non-exempt employees will accrue, in lieu of overtime compensation, compensatory time for authorized hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in a workweek.

(b) A Non-exempt employee shall not work over forty (40) hours in a workweek without the prior written authorization of the department head or director. A department head or director may adjust any employee's work schedule to avoid accumulation of compensatory time.

(c) The LCOHA will permit a Non-exempt employee to use accrued compensatory time off with their supervisor's approval as long as the use of the compensatory time will not unduly disrupt the operations of the LCOHA.

(d) A Non-exempt employee must use compensatory time during the fiscal year in which it was accrued, and all such unused time shall be forfeited at the end of the fiscal year, provided a maximum of forty (40) hours may be carried over into any new fiscal year. The LCOHA may enforce this provision any time it becomes aware an employee carried over too much compensatory time from one fiscal year to the next.

(e) A Non-exempt employee who has accrued compensatory time off shall be paid for up to forty (40) hours of unused compensatory time at employee's ending rate of pay upon the resignation of employment. Employees that have been terminated pursuant to Subchapter PAP.4.12 of this manual shall forfeit all remaining uncompensated accrued compensatory time.