A.             The work week shall consist of Monday through Friday, with 6.5 hours of work scheduled between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

B.             Overtime compensation or compensatory time will be granted to qualified employees consistent with the requirements of applicable Federal Wage-Hour Laws.

C.             It is the intention of the parties that no one should be paid twice for the same time frame.

D.             The District will maintain present respective schedules of work that pertain to the individual assignment of the members of the bargaining unit, subject to the conditions set forth in Article 1 - Purpose and Intent, Paragraph C, of this agreement. For the term of this contract only, employees of the bargaining unit shall be employed on a ten-month basis consistent with the appropriate school calendar. The terms of this Paragraph D shall not be construed as a guarantee of daily hours of work or weekly hours of work in the work week, or a guarantee of the length of the work year after the expiration of this contract.

E.             Full time employees shall be granted a one-half hour unpaid duty free lunch period each work day.

F.             Thirty-two and one-half (32 ½) or more hours per work week shall be defined as full-time employment for teaching assistants, teaching assistant/substitutes, and school monitors, and twenty (20) or more hours per work week shall be defined as full-time employment for bus attendants. Any number of hours per work week less than those stated above for such negotiating unit jobs shall be defined as part-time employment.