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part of the day's work and nnist- be counted as hours worked. For example, if an employee normally finished work at a particular job site at 5:00 ~rtt:PM, but is required to go to another job which is finished at 8:00 p~:PM, and then is required to return to the employer's premises arriving at 9:00 trt~:PM, all of the time is working time. However, if the employee goes home instead of returning to the employer's premises, the h•avel after 8:00 p:nt:PM is home-to-work travel and is not counted as hours worked. (d) Overnight Travel. Travel that keeps an employee away from home overnight is travel away from home. All overnight travel is not considet•ed work time under the PLSA, however, the County elects to pay for actual and reasonable travel as work hours. Section 4S. Minimum Wage All non-exempt employees of a local governmental unit may not be paid less than the current federal or state minimum wage, whichever is higher. Section ~G. Overtime Official Workweek The official workweek-pet~ecl for all county employees, except law enforcement personnel, is 40 hours over a seven day, 1G8 hour consecutive work period. The official work period for law enforcement employees is -1 ~1.8G hours over a period of ~8 14 consecutive days. The official work period for all county employees begins on Friday at 12:01 AM and ends on Thursday at 12:00 midnight, unless excepted below. The workweek, once established, may not be changed unless the change is intended to be permanent. A~„~loyz;-•The County may have one work period applicable to all of its employees, or have different work periods for different employees or groups of employees. The oliicia) workweek for the Civilian Teleconununicator position begins on Thursday at 7:00 AM and ends the following Thursday at G:59 AM. Regular Rate The regular rate is the equivalent hourly rate at which an employee is achtally paid for normal, non- overtime hours. The regular rate includes base pay, merit pay, career incentives pay, longevity pay, on call pay and all other pay actually received. The regular rate does not include gigs, pay for annual leave or sick leave, certain discretionary bonuses, er~leyer-contributions to fringe benefits or, as stipulated in tftean employment contract, extra Dona tide premium compensation for working overtime, for working Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and for working hours outside the normal workweek or workday if at least one and one-half times the normal rate is paid. When pay iu addition to the base salary is paid to an employee for a weekly period, the bonus is added to the employee's other earnings before the regular rate is determined. Where the additional pay is paid for a longer period of time, the etn~leyer-County may temporarily disregard the bonus and just pay overtime pay at one and one-half times the regular rates. When the additional pay can be ascertained, it is apportioned back over the workweeks of the period during which the additional pay was earned by the employee. The employee then receives additional overtime pay for each workweek overtime +ti-wl}iel~was-1}efske- c~-workedevet~ti+rte dig-Nit-peri~t. The extra pay does not affect the use of compensatory time off nor entitle the employee to additional compensatory time off. )'employee Overtime -General Policy All non--exempt employees other than fire protection and law enforcement employees must be paid at least one and one-half times hiss or her regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. T~ ire protection G8 Attachment number 4 Page 196 of 362 F-5