§ 90-121. Payment of police officers for secondary employment or private details.

(a)

Definitions. The following terms, when used in this article, shall have the meanings assigned in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1)

Secondary employment means security or police-related work performed for compensation by an NOPD officer or employee during his or her off-duty hours. Formerly known as "paid details," or simply "details."

(2)

Time-based jobs means those secondary employment opportunities that require a person, place, or thing to be secured for a known or estimated duration or period of time. This includes but is not necessarily limited to facility or area security jobs, such as retail, neighborhood patrol, race route security, and special events.

(3)

Major special events shall include any event held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Fair Grounds Race Course, Mahalia Jackson Theater, New Orleans Arena, Saenger Theater, Superdome, and UNO Lakefront Arena with an expected attendance of at least 2,000 persons. This shall not limit the authority of the city council or any other authorized entity to declare special events for the purpose of police secondary employment.

(4)

A.

Holiday premium means a flat rate paid in addition to an officer's hourly rate of pay for time-based secondary work and to be effective on specified holidays and days of officer high demand. Officers will earn the hourly holiday premium for all hours of every continuous shift that begins on a specified holiday, even if the shift carries over past midnight. Shifts that begin before midnight the day before a specified holiday and carry over past midnight into the holiday will not be eligible for the holiday premium. This premium applies to all officers regardless of rank, and does not incur any administrative fee for the customer.

B.

Specified holidays are:

i.

New Year's Day.

ii.

Martin Luther King's Birthday.

iii.

Mardi Gras.

iv.

Good Friday.

v.

Memorial Day.

vi.

Independence Day.

vii.

Labor Day.

viii.

Veterans Day.

ix.

Thanksgiving Day.

x.

Christmas Day.

C.

Days of officer high demand are:

i.

Lundi Gras.

ii.

Friday after Thanksgiving.

iii.

Christmas Eve.

iv.

New Year's Eve.

(b)

Fee and officer pay schedule for time-based jobs.

Rank	Officer Paid per Hour	OPSE Admin Fee	Customer Pays per Hour
Maj./Cmdr./Capt.	$39.00	15%, not to exceed $5.00	$44.00
Lieutenant	$35.00		$40.00
Sergeant (or full-time Lt. working down in Sgt. role)	$32.10		$36.90
Patrol officer	$29.33		$33.68
Full time employed Lt. or Sgt. working in a non-supervisory role	$29.33		$33.68
Reserve officer any rank, working in a non-supervisory role	$29.33		$33.68

 

(1)

An additional amount of $17.00 per officer per hour, regardless of the rank of the officer, shall be added to the customer's hourly price and passed on fully to the officer working that shift on specified holidays as well as on days of officer high demand. The holiday premium will only be paid for shifts beginning on a specified holiday - not an alternate or observed holiday - or day of officer high demand.

(2)

The office of police secondary employment may charge the customer an administrative fee not to exceed 15 percent of the hourly rate or $5.00, whichever is less. No other fee may be charged to the officer for secondary employment.

(3)

Any fees collected in excess of the amount actually required for operation of the office of police secondary employment shall be proportionally refunded to the officers annually. If a surplus is collected, the office of police secondary employment shall reduce the administrative fee to the percentage that would have provided sufficient funding, rounded up the nearest whole percentage.

(4)

The administrative fee may be waived by ordinance of the city council.

(5)

Exceptions to the pay schedule may be approved by ordinance of the city council.

(6)

Secondary employment assignments that are required in order to comply with an order or requirement put in place by the City of New Orleans shall not be subject to the standard pay schedule.

(7)

Assignments requiring specialized certificates beyond that required of all police officers shall not be subject to the pay schedule. Rates shall be determined based on the level of certification.

(8)

For any pre-existing, single-officer details that are paid at a rate lower than the schedule rate, officers may elect to continue working the assignment at the lower rate.

(Code 1956, § 49-22; M.C.S., Ord. No. 25428, § 1, 8-8-13)