comp time

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comp time

n. Informal

Compensatory time.

comp′ time`

time off from work, granted to an employee in lieu of overtime pay.

[comp(ensatory) time]

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1 would require all state employees making less than $31,000 annually to receive overtime pay rather than comp time for all hours worked over 40 per week.

Senate approves overtime pay for select state employees

That case ended in a settlement that granted officers 800 hours in comp time. The U.S.

Corrections officers receive $113M verdict in overtime case

"The contract eliminates comp time, sunsets the retirement clause, moves to combine part-time secretarial staff with clerical at the elementary and middle school levels, and changes the compensation for extra duty."

U-46 OKs raises for clerical staff

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Comp time

This bill changes federal overtime law to allow employees the "choice" of declining to accept time and a half for overtime laws in favor of comp time. As we all know, if this bill passes, the "choice" of whether to take compensation will probably be coerced, and would, in all honesty, be more likely to be an employer's choice, rather than an employee's choice.

Letters

1180 would let a private employer offer an employee up to 160 hours of comp time, or 20 standard eight-hour work days, in place of overtime pay per year, according to a copy of the H.R.

Comp Time Bill Could Help Absence Management Vendors

The law caps the number of comp time hours that law enforcement officers can accrue at 480.

United States : Puerto Rico Police Department to pay $8.7M to 2,642 officers following US Labor Department investigation, litigation

Additionally, employees can use accrued leave to supplement their existing workers' comp time.

Winner's circle

"Guy (Bax) took overtime and comp time, and even when Bax was acting director, I still got overtime for fires and demos, because, I was then, and still am, the chief code enforcement officer."

Pension padding alleged against Virtuoso Democrat legislator fires back, defends his overtime

For each hour of overtime worked, companies would give 1.5 hours of compensatory time, up to 160 hours total comp time per year.

Overtime options: the Working Families Flexibility Act would allow private employers to offer time off in lieu of extra pay

Additionally, comp time was tracked by each department and not linked centrally.

ACT now: Accountability, Compliance, and Transparency (ACT) in higher Ed workforce management

It recognizes that the administrator often conducts town business outside normal office hours; subsequently, according to the contract, he is allowed to take compensatory time off as he deems appropriate, providing of course that such comp time does not interfere with his administrative duties.