Robert Palmer
36:22 - 36:58
"the major concern that I had with it is that it conflated comp time or compensatory time with the utility on-call policy. And when you use the term comp time and you put it in the comp time code, in general you have to pay 1.5 times the actual hours worked, and that means the individual is work— is on the clock when they're working, and they get the right to choose between comp time or overtime."
“the major concern that I had with it is that it conflated comp time or compensatory time with the utility on-call policy. And when you use the term comp time and you put it in the comp time code, in general you have to pay 1.5 times the actual hours worked, and that means the individual is work— is on the clock when they're working, and they get the right to choose between comp time or overtime.”
- Speaker
- Robert Palmer
- Timestamp
- 36:22 – 36:58
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 19, 2026
From the transcript
Okay, and would you mind giving us just a brief legal review of the prior version of the utility comp time? Yeah, good evening, Council. It's good to see you again. I had a chance to look at the prior— the, I guess, existing Ordance 2632, and the major concern that I had with it is that it conflated comp time or compensatory time with the utility on-call policy. And when you use the term comp time and you put it in the comp time code, in general you have to pay 1.5 times the actual hours worked, and that means the individual is work— is on the clock when they're working, and they get the right to choose between comp time or overtime.
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