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diScre.'.ionao' bonuses, employer contributions to fringe b~ne.:'i;.s ar, as s:i?uktted in the employment contract, extra compensation for working overtime, for working Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and for working hours outside the norms! work,.veek or workday if at least one and one-half times the normal rate is paid. When pay in addition to the base salary is paid to an employee for a v,'eeklv period, the bonus is added to the employee's other earnings before the rewaiar rate is determined. Where the additional pay is paid for a longer period of time, the employer may temporarily disregard the bonus and just pay overtime pay a: 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 whizh the additional pay was earned by the employee. The employee then receives additional overtime for each work'week in which he/she worked overtime during that period. EMPLOYEE OVERTIME - GENERAL POLICY All non-exempt employees must be paid at least one and one-half times his/her regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. However, for employees other than law enforcement and emergency medical sen'ices personnel, compensatory time off xvill be given in lieu of overtime compensation according to the provisions of Section 6 of the Wage and Hour Policy.. Any overtime incurred by an employee must be approved through the head of the department in which the overtime takes place. FLSA requires that the minimum wage for any overtime due an empioyee be determined on the..basis of the hours worl~ed in each worle,veek and that the compensation earned by.an employee in a particular work~veek be paid on the reg-ular payday for the pa> period in which the workwee'k ends. _,-Mn employer cannot average the hours of work by an employee over two or more even if the employee is paid every two or more weeks. SECTION 6. COMPENSATORY TIME Non-exempt employees shall receive compensv, too' time off, in lieu of overtime compensation, at a rate of not less than one ;,nd o,'w-hatf hours for each hour of employment under which the overtime compensation is earned. Compensator.,' time off may be given only where the employee has not accrued compensatory. time off in excess of the prescribed limits established by the Fair Labor Standards Act. (see below) Employees working in any work other than a public safety, emergenq,' response, or seasonal activity may not accrue more than 240 hours of compensatoo' time. Once 240 hours have been accrved, the employee zi',ail be paid for additional overtime hours of work according to the provisions of Seczion 5 of :he Wage and Hour Policy.