Given the College's delayed opening on Thursday, September 8, 2011, due to inclement weather conditions, we are providing the following clarification on compensation practices and recording of hours worked.
All employees designated as “essential personnel” regularly scheduled to work the day shift, and who reported to work at their normal time, will be compensated at their regular rate and will receive an additional one and one-half times their regular rate for all hours worked from their regular start time through 12:00pm. The regular scheduled hours will be recorded as “Hours Worked” and the actual hours worked will be recorded as “Overtime @ 1 ½”. This will result in the individual receiving double time and ½ for the hours actually worked up until the College officially opened. (“Essential personnel” are designated individuals working in the College health center, office of public safety, and facilities.)
Employees who were scheduled to work once the College opened and who felt they could not report due to weather conditions, will need to use paid time away vacation or personal time for the hours scheduled after 12:00pm and not worked. Example: An employee working 7.5 hours per day scheduled to start work at 8:30am would be paid regular hours from 8:30am through 12:00pm or 3.5 hours and would be required to use 4.0 hours of paid time away vacation or personal time to be paid for the regular 7.5 hour work day.
Employees whose shifts begin after 12:00pm should report to work as normal and will be paid at their normal rate. Those employees who do not report as scheduled will have to use vacation or personal paid time away for the entire shift.
Please note, employees who were using sick time or previously scheduled vacation or personal time will not have those hours converted to emergency closing (regular) hours.
Employees are still required to take their unpaid meal break and other breaks at their regularly scheduled time.
Note: Temporary and part-time workers who are not benefit-eligible will not be eligible for payment during the emergency closing unless they were considered “essential” and required to work. In that case, they should be compensated at double time and one-half.
Please contact Donna Veres at 274-3874, Kris Guidi at 274-3133 or Cindy Reckdenwald at 274-3850 if you have any further questions or need additional assistance.
Thank you.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20110908192403753