§ 21-5-213 - Employees working late shifts. - Arkansas Statutes

21-5-213. Employees working late shifts.

(a) Subject to the approval of the agency director or the president or chancellor of the institution of higher education, employees whose working hours do not conform to normal state business hours shall be eligible for additional compensation not to exceed five and one-half percent (5.5%) above that for which they are eligible under this subchapter, provided:

(1) The agency or institution or any sections thereof routinely schedules more than one (1) work shift per day;

(2) The shift to which the employee is assigned is a full work shift beginning not earlier than 2:30 p.m. and ending not later than 8:00 a.m. the next day; and

(3) An employee is regularly assigned to the late shift or is assigned to the shift on a regularly scheduled rotating basis.

(b) (1) Employees at or near the maximum authorized salary level for the grade assigned to their classification may be compensated at an additional rate not to exceed five and one-half percent (5.5%) of their eligible salary under the provisions of this subchapter.

(2) In those instances where the granting of such additional compensation would have the effect of temporarily exceeding the maximum annual rate for the grade assigned to the employee's classification, the additional compensation shall not be considered as exceeding the maximum allowable rate for that grade.

(c) An employee who is receiving additional compensation under the provisions of this section and then is reassigned to a normal shift shall revert, on the day of the reassignment, to the rate of pay for which he or she is eligible under the provisions of this subchapter.