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SECTION 1 Work Schedules (General)
Work schedules are defined as an employee’s assigned hours, days of the week, days off, and shift
rotations. Nothing herein shall be construed as a guarantee of the number of hours of work per day or
per work period.
In those departments where work schedules are posted, changes in such posted work schedules shall be
made only to meet the operational needs of the service and shall not be made arbitrarily. Insofar as
possible, a minimum of five (5) calendar days’ notice will be provided to employees affected by a
change in the posted work schedule. Said notice will include the reason for the change in work schedule
with sufficient detail to establish that the change was neither arbitrarily made nor made in an effort to
avoid the payment of overtime.
SECTION 2 State Troopers
A. Work Schedules
The Trooper work schedules shall be ten (10) hours in length. Prior to June 1 of each calendar
year, each State Patrol District, facilitated by the District Lieutenant and the ISTA District
Representative, except District 15 and District 16, shall conduct a vote by secret ballot of the road
Troopers assigned to that District. Whichever of the two options set out below selected by a majority of
the votes cast will be followed by all of the road Troopers in that district commencing on July 1st of that
year through June 30 of the following year. Along with this vote each State Patrol District. except
District 15 and District 16, shall bid for their set days off. This bid will be done by seniority. The result
will be that half of the District will have set days off of Thursday and Friday and the other half will have
Monday and Tuesday for set days off. The bid will follow the above timeline of July 1 of that year
through June 30th of the following year.
Option 1) Schedules shall be based on the bid results for set days off. If the set days off are Thursday
and Friday the schedule shall be three (3) days on. two (2) days off. five (5) days on, four (4) days off,
three (3) nights on, two (2) nights off, five (5) nights on, four (4) nights off. If the set days off are
Monday and Tuesday the schedule will be five (5) days on. two (2) days off, three (3) days on, four (4)
days off, five (5) nights on. two (2) nights off. three (3) nights on. four (4) nights off.
Option 2) Schedules for set days off of Thursday and Friday shall be three (3) days on, two (2) days off.
five (5) days on, four (4) days off, three (3) days on. two (2) days off. five (5) days on. four (4) days off,
three (3) nights on, two (2) nights off, five (5) nights on. four (4) nights off, three (3) nights on, two (2)
nights off, five (5) nights on, four (4) nights off. Schedules set for days off on Monday and Tuesday
shall be five (5) days on, two (2) days off, three (3) days on. four (4) days off, five (5) days on. two (2)
days off. three (3) days on, four (4) days off. five (5) nights on, two (2) nights off, three (3) nights on,
four (4) nights off, five (5) nights on, two (2) nights off. three (3) nights on, four (4) nights off.
Day shift hours shall be between 0500-1700. Night shift hours shall be between 1400-0200.
Midnight shift hours shall be between 2100-0700.
Employees will be required to take leave equivalent to the number of scheduled hours.
The present work schedules, including assigned work days, lost days off, and pick days, for Technical
Accident Investigators assigned to Headquarters, Safety Education Officers, Vehicle Theft Officers,
Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program Troopers and Trooper- Pilots shall be retained.
State Troopers assigned as a full-time Technical Collision Reconstructionist assigned to the District
Field Office shall work a 40-hour flex schedule. Hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week, including
time spent for meal periods, shall be considered overtime. For full-time Technical Collision
Reconstructionist assigned to the District office, hours worked in excess of assigned shifts or hours
worked less than a full shift on a regularly scheduled day off shall be considered overtime. Overtime
calculated as set forth in this paragraph shall be compensated in accordance with Article VIII (Hours of
Work). section 2 (State Troopers), subsection B (Overtime).
With the exception of emergency need, Troopers with service of twenty-two (22) years or more with the
Employer as a peace officer shall not be required to work between the hours of 0200-0600, and Troopers
with service of twenty-five (25) years or more with the Employer as a peace officer shall not be required
to work between the hours of 0100-0600.
Troopers assigned to Post 16, except for staff assigned to the Governor’s Security Detail, will be
assigned to a five (5) day on two (2) day off schedule, on a four (4) month rotation, with shifts of eight
(8) hours. The initial rotation will allow the three (3) most senior Troopers assigned to Post 16 their
election of shift and rotation assignment, and the remaining shift and rotation schedule shall be
determined based on seniority. Schedules (shift and days off’) shall be selected and determined based on
seniority as a peace officer, with the most senior Trooper having first selection, the next senior Trooper
having next selection and so on until the least senior Trooper has the last selection. Schedules shall be
rebid, in accordance with the above, when staffing or personnel changes occur, but no more often than
every four (4) months.
A Trooper 2 or 3 may request to change his/her day or night rotating schedule to straight
midnights retaining the road Trooper option 1
or option 2 work schedule above of either a 5-2, 3-4 schedule or a 3-2, 5-4 schedule if there is only one
midnight trooper. If there is more than one midnight trooper then by seniority, he or she will have the
choice of one of the schedules as stated in option 1 or 2 depending on the District vote, (Thursday-Friday), (Monday-Tuesday) and will follow the schedule set by those regular days off. The lower senior
Trooper will take the opposite schedule and shall follow the rotation set by the days as stated in option 1
or 2. State Trooper 2 work schedule. A Trooper assigned to Post 16 may request to change his/her day or
night rotating schedule to straight midnights retaining the 5-2, 5-2, 5-2, 5-2 Post 16 work
schedule. The request will be in writing, detailing a specific stated purpose, needs and expectations.
Such requests will be approved by the affected District and Area Commanders. When the Employer or
employee gives at least thirty-two (32) days written notice, an employee shall be allowed to re-enter the
normal work schedule rotation at the beginning of the following schedule period.
B. Overtime
Hours worked in excess of assigned shifts or hours worked less than a full shift on a regularly scheduled
day off shall be considered overtime. If an employee is called on a regularly scheduled day off and
ordered to work on that day, all hours actually worked shall be considered overtime. Insofar as possible,
a minimum of five (5) calendar days’ notice shall be provided when an employee desires to take earned
compensatory time or change their schedule. Payment shall be made in either cash or compensatory time
at the discretion of the Employee. The rate of payment shall be either one and one-half (1 1/2)
times the employee's current hourly wage or one and one-half (1 1/2) times the number of overtime hours
worked. Employees must receive prior approval from their supervisor before working additional hours
(overtime).
C. Compensatory Time
Employees shall be allowed to bank up to one hundred sixty (160) hours of compensatory time at
any one time. Earned compensatory time shall be taken at the request of the employee with the approval
of management in at least one (1) hour increments. The Employer reserves the right to require
employees to take earned compensatory time and the Employer’s required use of accrued compensatory
time shall not result in a reduction of the employee’s banked compensatory time below one hundred
sixty (160) hours. However, such time shall be in increments of at least one (1) day. Earned
compensatory time may be accumulated and credited to the employee’s account. Up to eighty (80) hours
of banked compensatory time not taken by the end of the last pay period of the fiscal year may be
converted at the current hourly rate of pay for the employee involved and paid for in cash, at the
Employee’s discretion. Compensatory time above eighty (80) hours may be converted at the current
hourly rate of pay for the employee involved and paid for in cash, at the Employer’s discretion. All other
compensatory time shall be carried over to the next fiscal year.
D. Standby Time
For purposes of this Article, standby time is defined as:
Any time that the Employer requires State Troopers during their off-duty hours to remain at their normal
place of residence, leave a telephone number where they can be reached or remain within radio contact
with the Iowa Police Radio System and be available to respond from their place of residence within one
(1) hour.
Members of the State Patrol who are required to be on standby shall receive two (2) hours of
compensatory time or a fraction thereof for every twenty-four (24) hour standby period.
SECTION 3 Conservation Officers
A. Work Schedules: No changes.
B. Overtime
Compensatory time shall be earned on an hour-for-hour basis and placed in the compensatory time bank
for all hours worked on days off.
Compensatory time shall be calculated based on a 14-day work period. Compensatory time shall be
earned at a rate of time and one-half (1 1/2) and placed in the compensatory time bank for all hours
worked in excess of eighty-six (86) hours in a fourteen (14) day work period. The employer recognizes
the ability of the employee to adjust their hours during the 14-day work period to equal at least 80 hours.
There shall be no requirement that the employee account for any set amount of hours in any time period
less than 14 days.
C. Compensatory Time: No Changes.
SECTION 4 Park Rangers
A. No Changes.
B. No changes.
C. No changes.
D. Premium Pay
Park Rangers shall receive four percent (4%) annual premium pay in addition to the employee’s regular
pay as compensation for weekends worked, for the lack of shift differential.
SECTION 5 Special Agent 1s
No Changes.
SECTION 6 Special Agent 2s
A. Work Schedules
Special Agent 2s will work a non-standard five (5) day. forty (40) hour work week with Saturday and
Sunday off. The actual hours worked per day shall be at the Special Agent 2’s discretion, however,
hours worked will be in accordance with operational efficiency and necessary work duties.
Hours worked on Saturday or Sunday shall be considered overtime and these hours will not be counted
towards a Special Agent 2s regular forty (40) hour work week.
B. Overtime
Hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours per work week, excluding time spent for meal periods, shall
be considered overtime. During a week in which a holiday occurs, or vacation has been approved, the
holiday and/or vacation hours shall be considered hours worked for the purposes of calculating overtime
and any hours in excess of forty (40) hours. excluding time spent for meal periods. shall be considered
overtime.
Earned overtime shall be converted to compensatory time at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) times the
overtime hours worked each pay period.
C. Compensatory Time
No changes.
D. Standby Time
No changes.
E. Assignment to Other Zones
No changes.
SECTION 7 Fire Inspectors
No changes.
SECTION 8 Canine Corp
No changes.
SECTION 9 Call-Back Time
Employees who are off-duty and called back to work by the Employer shall be guaranteed a minimum of two (2) hours of work
time or actual hours worked, whichever is greater.
SECTION 10 Compensatory Time Payout
No changes.[2]
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