Off Topic:
I got an email from a another enginerd I know at a base in FL and he was telling that he was asked to work overtime and would be given comp time only. The way I have always understoond it is that OT is all paid, but, if you want too, you can opt for Comp Time. I've never seen Comp Time mandated by management.
He's a GS-11.
Thoughts?
I take it he is a 854 Engineer which is now NSPS -- Non Bargaining Unit -- Exempt? They are taking the less of two cost avenues -- an 11 would probably get 1.5 times his pay.....
Under NSPS the payable overtime rate is calculated from an employee's adjusted salary (base salary + local market supplement).
Based on the pay band level to which the employee is assigned, the overtime hourly rate is either the employee's hourly adjusted rate of pay or the hourly adjusted rate of pay multiplied by 1.5.
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[/FONT]The employee's adjusted rate of pay serves as the overtime hourly rate for:
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[/FONT]Pay band 3 of the following schedules:
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[/FONT](YA) Professional and Analytical
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[/FONT](YD) Engineering and Scientific (Professional)
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[/FONT](YH) Medical (Professional)
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[/FONT](YK) Investigative
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[/FONT]Pay band 4 - (YL) Fire Protection
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[/FONT]Employees assigned to all other pay bands (including YA-2) are paid for overtime at
the employee's hourly adjusted rate multiplied by 1.5.
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limitations may be waived under certain circumstances (see SC 1930.12 for more
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[/FONT]Rules on the use of compensatory time have not changed. A nonexempt employee
may not be required to take compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay.