Columbia Mutual aid emergency pay ordinance (§ 19-95)

(a) Mutual aid emergency pay.

(1)

Whenever the city manager either requests the emergency assistance of others under a mutual aid agreement or authorizes city employees to provide emergency assistance to others under a mutual aid agreement, overtime eligible city utility employees working in response to the emergency shall be paid mutual aid emergency pay as described in subsection (a)(2). The city manager shall determine when the period for receiving mutual aid emergency pay begins and when it ends.

(2) For every twenty-four-hour period during which an overtime eligible city utility employee works in response to the emergency, the employee shall, at minimum, be paid at the employee's overtime rate for sixteen (16) hours and at the employee's regular rate of pay for eight (8) hours; in the event the entity receiving aid has prevailing wage obligations that require reimbursement for rates of pay that exceed those provided in this section, the city manager may accept reimbursement at the higher rate and pay employees working in response to the emergency at the rate that is reimbursed.