Work Compensation

The following work compensation shall apply to all nursing and other healthcare professionals essential to the delivery of patient care services:

(a)The workweek shall consist of any combination of straight time, overtime and holiday time to a total of forty

(40)hours. All nursing and other healthcare professionals essential to the delivery of patient care services are hereby exempted from those provisions of the government of Guam compensation laws covering accumulated straight time hours required prior to compensation at overtime rates.

(b)All work performed between the hours of 12:00 midnight on any Friday and 12:00 midnight of the following Sunday night shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1½) times the regular straight time rate of the nurse or any employee who is responsible for direct delivery of patient services.

(c)All work performed on any legal holiday, in addition to the regular holiday pay, shall be compensated at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the nurse’s and other healthcare professional’s regular straight time rate.

(d)After a nurse and other healthcare professional have worked a complete shift in any given twenty-four

(24)hour period, the next four

(4)hours worked shall be at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the nurse’s and other healthcare professional’s regular straight time hourly rate. Any work in excess of the additional four

(4)hours in the same twenty-four

(24)hour period shall be compensated at two

(2)times or double time the nurse’s and other healthcare professional’s regular straight time hourly rate.

(e)For the purpose of computing annual leave and sick leave for nurses and other healthcare professionals, any combination of eighty

(80)hours of work, inclusive of work at overtime or double CH. 6 COMPENSATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES time compensation, shall accrue sick leave at a rate of four

(4)hours per pay period and annual leave at the rate the nurse and the other healthcare professional are entitled to because of time in service.

(f)Nurses and other healthcare professionals who are not allowed leave time due to shortage of staff shall be given monetary compensation at the end of each fiscal year.