La. Stat. tit. 33 § 1994

Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 33:1994 - Maximum hours

A. Overtime compensation for firefighters covered by this Subpart in cities having a population of thirteen thousand or more and that of all parish and fire protection district paid firefighters shall be governed by the provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as implemented in 29 CFR Part 553 . In the event that such firefighters are subsequently excluded from the overtime compensation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, any firefighters having a work period of at least seven but not more than twenty-eight consecutive days shall receive overtime compensation at the rate of one and one-half times his usual salary, to be determined by reducing his average monthly salary to an hourly scale, for all hours worked in excess of the following maximum hours standards:

Work Period (days)	Maximum Hours
28	212
27	204
26	197
25	189
24	182
23	174
22	167
21	159
20	151
19	144
18	136
17	129
16	121
15	114
14	106
13	98
12	91
11	83
10	76
9	68
8	61
7	53

(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, the maximum hours of work required by persons employed or engaged full time by municipalities or municipal fire departments or by parish or parish fire departments or fire protection districts as operators of fire alarm systems in any one calendar week shall be forty-two hours.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the maximum hours of work required by persons employed or engaged full time by the Lake Charles Fire Department as operators of fire alarm systems in any fourteen-day work cycle shall be eighty-four hours.

C. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section to the contrary, the city of Lafayette, may establish a work period not to exceed twenty-eight days for firemen, provided fire department employees are compensated at the rate of one and one-half times their regular rate of pay, or credited with compensatory time on a one and one-half time basis, for all hours in the work period that exceed an average of fifty-three hours per week. Hours worked by a fire department employee as a substitute for another employee shall be excluded from the calculation of overtime hours provided the substitution was voluntary on the part of both employees and approved by the employer.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to the contrary, the governing authority of Fire Protection District No. One of the parish of Ouachita, in order to maximize fire protection, may establish a work shift cycle for the district as provided in R.S. 33:1994(D)(2), which requires a person employed by the district as a fireman to work in excess of sixty hours in any calendar week. Each fireman shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times his usual salary for all overtime hours worked during a shift cycle. The total hours worked by each fireman during an entire work shift cycle shall be divided by the number of weeks in the shift cycle to determine the average number of hours worked per week. The overtime hours worked by each fireman during a shift cycle shall be the number of hours by which the average number of hours worked per week exceeds sixty multiplied by the number of weeks in the shift cycle. Hours worked by fire department employees as a substitute for another employee shall be excluded from the calculation of overtime hours provided the substitution was voluntary on the part of both employees and approved by the employer.

(2) For Fire Protection District No. One of Ouachita Parish, the work shift cycle authorized pursuant to Paragraph (D)(1) shall consist of a three week total of one hundred and sixty-eight hours.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to the contrary, the city of Baton Rouge, in order to maximize fire protection, may establish a work shift cycle as provided in R.S. 33:1994(E)(2), which requires a person employed as a fireman to work in excess of sixty hours in any calendar week. Each fireman shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times his usual salary for all overtime hours worked during a shift cycle. The total hours worked by each fireman during an entire work shift cycle shall be divided by the number of weeks in the shift cycle to determine the average number of hours worked per week. The overtime hours worked by each fireman during a shift cycle shall be the number of hours by which the average number of hours worked per week exceeds sixty multiplied by the number of weeks in the shift cycle.

(2) The work shift cycle authorized pursuant to Subsection (E)(1) shall consist of a nine week total of five hundred and four hours.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section to the contrary, the city of Baton Rouge, in order to maximize fire protection, may establish a work shift cycle as provided in R.S. 33:1994(E)(4), which requires a person employed as an operator of fire alarm systems to work in excess of forty-two hours in any calendar week. Each operator shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times his usual salary for all overtime hours worked during a shift cycle. The total hours worked by each operator during an entire work shift cycle shall be divided by the number of weeks in the shift cycle to determine the average number of hours worked per week. The overtime hours worked by each operator during a shift cycle shall be the number of hours by which the average number of hours worked per week exceeds forty-two multiplied by the number of weeks in the shift cycle.

(4) The work shift cycle authorized pursuant to Subparagraph (E)(3) shall consist of a twenty-six week total of one thousand ninety-two hours.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section to the contrary, the city of Bossier City, in order to maximize fire protection, may establish a work shift cycle as provided in this Subsection, which requires a person employed as an operator of fire alarm systems to work in excess of forty-two hours in a calendar week. Each operator shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times his usual salary for all overtime hours worked during a shift cycle. The total hours worked by each operator during an entire work shift cycle shall be divided by the number of weeks in the shift cycle to determine the average number of hours worked per week. The overtime hours worked by each operator during a shift cycle shall be the number of hours by which the average number of hours worked per week exceeds forty-two multiplied by the number of weeks in the shift cycle.

(2) The work shift cycle authorized pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall consist of a twenty-six week total of one thousand ninety-two hours.

La. R.S. § 33:1994

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 239, §1; Acts 1952, No. 242, §1; Acts 1962, No. 132, §1; Acts 1984, No. 252, §1, eff. 6/30/1984; Acts 1985, No. 595, §1, eff 7/13/1985; Acts 1986, No. 80, §§1, 2; Acts 1987, No. 176, §1; Acts 1993, No. 696, §1, eff. 6/21/1993; Acts 2004, No. 14, §1, eff. 5/12/2004; Acts 2011, No. 274, §1.