AJK provides compensation for all overtime hours worked by non-exempt employees in accordance with state and federal law as follows: • All hours worked in excess of eight hours in one workday or 40 hours in one workweek will be treated as overtime. A workday begins at 12:01 a.m. and ends at midnight 24 hours later. Workweeks begin each Monday at 12:01 a.m.; • Compensation for hours in excess of 40 for the workweek, or in excess of eight and not more than 12 for the workday, and for the first eight hours on the seventh consecutive day of work in one workweek, shall be paid at a rate one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay; • Compensation for hours in excess of 12 in one workday and in excess of eight on the seventh consecutive workday in a workweek shall be paid at double the regular rate of pay; and • Exempt employees may have to work hours beyond their normal schedules as work demands require. No overtime compensation will be paid to exempt employees. WEEKEND WORK Weekend work does not automatically qualify for compensation at a premium rate of pay. Hours worked on Saturdays and/or Sundays qualify for premium pay only if they qualify as overtime hours under the standards noted above. HOLIDAYS WORKED Non-exempt employees who work on an AJK-recognized holiday shall be paid straight-time rate of pay for hours actually worked on the holiday. For full-time employees, this shall be in addition to being paid for the holiday. All full-time employees' holiday work must be approved in advance in writing by a supervisor. MEAL PERIODS Except for certain salaried exempt employees, it is our policy to provide and afford all employees who work more than five (5) hours in a work day with an uninterrupted thirty (30) minute meal period free from all duty to begin no later than the end of four and a half hours of work and a second uninterrupted thirty (30) minute meal period free from all duty to commence no later than the end of the 10th hour of work, should an employee work that many hours in any given day. Only in limited circumstances, discussed below, can meal periods be waived. For this reason, unless there is a written agreement for an on-duty meal period approved by the HR Manager, employees must record the beginning and ending time of their meal period(s) every day. It is our policy to relieve you of all duty during your meal periods, so that you are at liberty to use the meal period time as you wish. You may leave the premises for your meal period if you so desire. AJK schedules all work assignments with the expectation that all employees will take their duty-free meal periods and we encourage you to do so. You may be asked to confirm in writing that you have been relieved of all duty and otherwise provided all of your meal periods during a particular pay period, or in the alternative, identify any meal periods during which you were required to work. At no time may any employee perform off-the-clock work or otherwise Revised January 2024 Page 12 of 55
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