<div dir="auto">The only time we pay OT without it requiring 40 hours of actual time worked is in the winter when one custodian per school comes in on non-work days to check the buildings. Then they get OT for those hours regardless of what they e worked during the week. </div><div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3333ff"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3333ff"><b>Dawn L. 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King</em></span></h3></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM Lucie Tabor <<a href="mailto:ltabor@vuesc.org">ltabor@vuesc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Heather,</div><div dir="ltr">Normally OT hours only count after 40 hours of actual time <u>worked </u>and would <u>not</u> include Sick, EPL, Vaca, Holidays, or any other paid leave. This is what is considered "Qualified Overtime". Ex: So if an employee worked 35 hours and took 8 hours of paid leave, they would not get paid any overtime. But if an employee actually worked 43 hours, they would be paid 3 hours at OT rate.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">An employer <b>can</b> agree through negotiations to pay employees at Overtime rate for all hours over 40 hours/week and count all hours worked and all hours taken for paid leave towards the 40 hours and then pay OT rate for all hours over that 40 hours. In that case, only hours WORKED in the 40 hours count towards Qualified OT, any hours paid at OT that <u>included paid leave</u> (to get to the initial 40 hours) would be considered <u>Non-Qualifying</u> OT. <br></div><div>Ex. If an employer agrees to count all hours towards paying Overtime rate, then both examples above would mean that each scenario gets paid the 3 hours at OT rate.</div><div>For tax purposes, The one that worked 35 hours would show 0 hrs for Qualified OT and 3 hrs for Non-Qualifying OT. </div><div>The one that worked 43 hours would show 3 Hrs for Qualifying OT.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Summary, yes, all hours (worked + paid leaves) can be counted towards OT in terms of paying the employee for OT rate, but only hours actually worked count towards earning Qualified OT for tax purposes.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Lucie</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:25 AM Heather Reale <<a href="mailto:hreale@wocsd.org" target="_blank">hreale@wocsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Is it accurate that overtime is paid on actual hours worked? So if they are using EPL as part of the time that they are getting paid for, then that amount would be backed out of the overtime calculation.</div><div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Heather Reale</div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM Lucie Tabor <<a href="mailto:ltabor@vuesc.org" target="_blank">ltabor@vuesc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Adam,</div><div dir="auto">One of our districts had that (OT after 8 hours worked in one day) and we negotiated it out. We defended with an example that by that standard, someone could work 40 hours in one week and not get any OT pay, yet someone working one 10 hour day would get 2 hours in OT pay even if they only worked one day that week.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We successfully negotiated it out.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">LUCIE</div><div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Lucie Tabor<div><i>Director of Finance</i></div><div><i>Valley Unified Educational Service Center (VUESC)</i></div><div><i>Serving the School Districts of MSAD 27, MSAD 33 and Madawaska School Dept.</i></div><div><i>Upper St. John Valley</i></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM Dawn Blanchard <<a href="mailto:dblanchard@brunswicksd.org" target="_blank">dblanchard@brunswicksd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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