The normal workweek for Town employees shall be as follows:
A. 
The basic workweek for all department and division heads and other administrators shall be 40 hours. The forty-hour workweek shall include a half-hour paid lunch break. The weekly hours are:
Day
Times
Monday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday
8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Friday
8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
B. 
The basic workweek for all other professional and clerical employees who work in the Town offices shall be 35 hours, unless otherwise stipulated by the Town Manager. The thirty-five-hour workweek shall include a half-hour unpaid lunch break. The weekly hours are:
Day
Times
Monday
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thursday
8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Friday
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
C. 
Department heads may adopt regulations consistent with this personnel policy establishing hours of work that meet the needs of their individual departments, subject to the approval of the Town Manager. Timesheets must be completed by all employees, except forty-hour Town Manager direct reports and department heads, and submitted to the Town Manager’s office on a weekly basis to ensure compliance with all state and federal wage payment laws.
[Amended 6-28-2011]
D. 
Town Hall employees changed to a four-day workweek schedule in September 2008.
[Added 6-28-2011]
(1) 
The schedule for this building is Monday to Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. All other Town buildings, including the library, remain at their currently scheduled hours. All thirty-five-hour-a-week Town Hall employees are working the scheduled hours stated above. All forty-hour-a-week Town Hall employees have the option of working 9.5 scheduled hours a day, Monday through Wednesday, between the core hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursday scheduled hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Employees who attend night meetings will have some flexibility around these core hours with supervisor approval.
(2) 
To accommodate this change in hours, for all Town Hall employees, all leave time during this period will be taken in hours. All paid time off shall be allocated to employees on an hour-for-hour basis. All Town Hall employees are not required to take time off in quarter-, half- or full-day increments. In addition, employees assigned to the Town Hall may take vacation time in conjunction with personal time during the period. Each of the three personal leave days and the floating holiday shall be valued as eight-hour days during the period, except forty-hour Town Manager direct reports and department heads whose three personal days and floating holiday are valued at 9.5 hours. Family sick leave is valued at 40 hours per year. During this period, Friday holidays are not scheduled holidays for Town Hall employees, and offices will be closed the preceding evening at 4:30 p.m.
[Amended 9-8-2020]
The Town reserves the right to adjust the hours of work for all employees and to change the hours that Town Hall is open as necessary to meet the needs of the Town.
All full-time employees are expected to be in regular attendance at work during the designated hours scheduled by the department head.
Personnel shortages, peak workloads and other emergency situations may make it necessary for an employee to work beyond his or her regularly scheduled workweek, as prescribed by the Town Manager. Employees not exempted from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Connecticut General Statutes shall receive overtime pay at the rate of 1 1/2 times their regular rate of pay for each hour worked over 40 hours in a week.
All employees are subject to work schedule changes, as the needs of the Town require.
A. 
Positions exempt from overtime. Positions considered exempt from overtime requirements shall not be paid for overtime work. The Town shall notify employees who are considered exempt from overtime.
B. 
Overtime authorization. Overtime shall be compensated only when properly authorized as prescribed by the Town Manager.
C. 
Overtime compensation. Eligible employees will receive overtime at the rate of 1 1/2 times the regular hourly rate for all hours worked over 40 hours per week. Vacations, holidays and paid sick leave will be considered as hours worked for the purpose of computing overtime.
D. 
Callback time. When an employee who is eligible for overtime compensation after departing from his/her regularly scheduled shift is officially ordered to start back to work for emergency service, he/she shall be compensated from the time of his/her assignment for all hours worked at the rates set forth in Subsection C or four hours' pay at his/her regular rate, whichever is the greater.
E. 
Department heads: Attendance at meetings of Town agencies and working beyond normal business hours shall be considered part of the duties of the position and not ordinarily eligible for compensation in equivalent time or pay. The Town Manager may, at his or her discretion, grant additional time off to a department head who has worked substantial extra hours without compensation in pay. The Manager shall determine the fair amount of additional time off to be taken and shall determine dates and duration of such time off to insure that there are no adverse effects on Town operations. Any such additional time off granted by the Town Manager shall not exceed three days per year.
[Amended 6-28-2011]