Don't miss your overtime rights

Dear Clerical Co-worker,

June is the month in which to choose whether you will get paid for overtime, or if you will accrue compensatory time, if compensatory time is offered in your department.

Your department should give you a form to fill out.

Here is a sample form.

If you do not fill out the form, the default is that you will get paid. If you fill out the form, you can choose to accrue compensatory time if your department offers this.

The Hours Of Work article (Section K.3) of the CUE-UC contract states:

In accordance with the following paragraphs, overtime shall be compensated at the appropriate rate either by pay or compensatory time off, if the department offers compensatory time off.

1. Unless the employee and the University agree otherwise, overtime will be paid. An employee may, upon hire and thereafter during the month of June file a written indication of preference for either compensatory time off or pay with her/his immediate supervisor. The University shall grant the preference indicated.

2. Compensatory time shall be paid or scheduled by the University in accordance with departmental needs. Accumulation of compensatory time is limited to a maximum of two-hundred forty (240) hours. An employee shall be paid for hours of overtime which exceed this limit. An employee may request to schedule the use of banked compensatory time. An employee's request for the scheduling of banked compensatory time shall be granted subject to the needs of the University and shall not be unreasonably denied.