6.25   Repealed and Re-enacted in Rules 21.10 and 21.11, effective December 31, 2003.

6.26   Repealed and Re-enacted in Rule 21.2, effective December 31, 2003.

6.27   Repealed and Re-enacted in Rules 21.7 and 21.12, effective December 31, 2003.

6.28 Compensation for On-Call Duty/Shift Work

Subject to the provisions of Rule 6.29,

(a) The Director may authorize compensation for on-call/shift work through policy directives which establish guidelines for compensation for employees performing these types of work. These guidelines will establish the maximum authorized amounts which may be utilized. The Commission may authorize amounts at levels higher than established by the Director.

(b) On-call compensation is for hours worked in excess of regularly scheduled hours of duty, when the worker is available for call back to his/her duty station, work-ready, within a specified period of time, at the direction of his/her appointing authority. On-call compensation is in addition to the employee's regular pay and is not to be included in terminal leave payments allowed under other Sections of the Rules. On-call compensation shall not be granted to an employee for his/her regularly scheduled hours of duty. Further, when an employee is called back he/she shall be considered in duty status and eligible for overtime compensation, according to Chapter 21 of these Rules

(c) Shift differential is an additional pay allowance for employees who work non-standard hours.

6.29 Corrective Pay Actions

(a) The discretion granted by this Chapter to an appointing authority is subject to revocation by the Director when he determines that such discretion has been abused.

(b) An employee=s pay is subject to reduction when, after hearing before the Commission or its designee, it is determined that the employee has benefited from increased pay as a result of either a violation of these Rules, or an abuse of the discretion granted in these Rules.

6.30 In order to avoid excessive administrative costs, an appointing authority may adjust an employee=s salary to the monthly range maximum or highest rate within the base supplement authorized for a position when any personnel transaction results in a salary increase which is within $20 of that monthly range maximum or highest rate within the base supplement.