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Human Resources Announcement For Bloomington Employees, Managers, and Department Heads

 

Changes in the Overtime Policy

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Revisions to Indiana University’s Overtime policy will become effective May 16, 2010. The essential change is that the University will only count time worked to determine an employee’s eligibility for overtime compensation with just a few exceptions. Time off with pay no longer counts as time worked except when hours are applied to the following:

• Adverse Weather (WTH)
• Adverse Working Conditions (ADW)
• Emergency Rest Time (ERT)
• Holiday (including HOL and HTK)
• Injury on the Job (INJ)

All other categories of paid time off, such as vacation, PTO, sick time, and compensatory time off, do not count as part of the 40 hours in a week to determine if overtime pay is applicable. When an employee uses paid time off charged to any of these other categories, there may be hours worked outside of the employee’s regular schedule that do not qualify to be paid as overtime. These hours worked will be compensated at a straight time rate either in the form of pay or compensatory time off at the department’s choice.

In units that permit flexible or alternate work schedules, adjustments may occur in the number of hours applied to time off in a week. If a department has given the employee a flexible scheduling option—or an arrangement is made prior to taking the time off—the amount of time applied to vacation, sick, PTO, or absent-without-pay time may be reduced so that the total time off and time worked equals 40 hours in the week.

Premium pay provisions, such as call-back pay, stand-by pay, change of workdays without a 5-day notice, etc., are not affected by this change and remain at current rates.

The Overtime policy can be found at http://hr.iu.edu/policies/uwide/overtime.html. The UHRS Web site (www.hr.iu.edu) has more information about these revisions as well as a number of overtime calculations examples.

 

University Human Resource Services
May 11, 2010

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