ARTICLE 22
Overtime and Compensatory Time
SECTION 1. The parties believe that the mission of NOAA/GC is best served when employees balance their work duties with their personal responsibilities and pursuits. They agree that 80 hours per pay period is the norm for full-time employees. Employees should be able to accomplish routine work assignments within that schedule. On occasion, in unusual circumstances, Management may require an employee to work more than 80 hours in a pay period. Examples include responding to natural resource emergencies, meeting litigation deadlines, and participating in administrative hearings, Regional Fishery Management Council meetings, or negotiations.
SECTION 2. Employees should notify their supervisors as far in advance as possible of any situation that may require overtime work. A supervisor may order and approve in writing up to ten hours per pay period of overtime work. The NOAA General Counsel or a designee must order and approve in writing any overtime work in excess of ten hours per pay period.
SECTION 3. Hours of overtime work will be compensated by granting compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay, in accordance with applicable law.
SECTION 4. Employees accruing and using compensatory time will account for such use in accordance with applicable timekeeping procedures.
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