R2019-205 Resolution Authorizing Collective Bargaining Agreement for Pay and Benefits - AFSCME Council 31 and Local 268, General Service Employees

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Section 2. (a) The normai duty week may consist of�ve (5) consecutive eight (8) hour dufy days Monday through Friday inclusive, or,wifh the consent of the deparEment director and the employee or employees invoived,four(4)ten(10) hour duty days during the period Monday through Friday,except for empioyees in continuous operations,parking enforcement o�cers,per- sons assigned to the Information Technology(iT}Department,and persons assigned to the tran- scribing unit in the Potice Department. Employees in continuous operations in the Water Produc- tion Division shall have a duty week consisting of five(5)consecutive eight(8)hour days foqowed by at least fwo (2) consecutive days off; such employees may elect to u#iiize an accumulated holiday or vacation day when a third consecutive day off is scheduled. (b)The City may estabiish new shifts, within the limitations provided in this Section. Em- ployees within job ctassifications in the affected department which have been assigned to a new shift shall be permitted to volunteer for such assignment to any new shift.Such employee requesfs shall be honored in order by seniority;such opportunity tv valunteer for assignment to such new shiff shall be offered to employees not fess frequenfly than once per fiscal year, and more senior employees may bump less senior empfoyees there from. The City shalt assign employees to a new shift after a!t eiigible employees have had an opportunity to volunteer for assignment thereto. When a new shift has been so established and staffed, as herein provided,the City may transfer emptoyees of the same class�cation between and among all shifts within the affected department if it finds that any shift, as staffed, does not contain suf#icient seniority among the employees thereof to operate in the best inferests of the City; provided that,the Cify may nof so transfer any employee from a new shift unfil all employees in the same classification and on the same new shift,with tess seniority, have been transferred.The City cannot create new shifts soleiy to avaid payment of overtime. Section 3. Except during periods when snow and ice confrol shifts are in operation, em- ployees shall be scheduled to serve on a regular duty shiftwhich has a regutar sta�ting anci quitting #ime. Section 4. (a)A snow and ice control shift is a scheduled duty day in excess of eight{8) hours called for the purpose of snow or ice control during periods of heavy or expected heavy snowfall or ice accumulations. (b) A snow and ice control shift may be ordered by the Municipal Services Manager or his/her designee when, in his opinion, snow or ice is accumulafing, has accumulated or is ex- ' pected to accumulate on the public streets at such depths or at such a rate that around-the-ciock snow o�ice cont�ol operations are necessary unti!the pub}ic streefs are ciear and the period of accumulation is ended. (c)The City shall not use or catl snow and ice control shifts for the purpose of avoiding or circumventing payment for overtime. (d} Three lisfs of employees shalt be established with preference being determined by seniority,during the month of November to be designated A, B and FM shifts for the purposes of snow and ice control shifts and ordinary snow and ice control overtime. Emptoyees of like posi- tions on the A and B lists shatl be allowed to trade positions on said lists during fhe year subject to the approval of the Department Directar,which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. (e} For purposes of snow and ice control, the following two shifts are recognized: 11:00 a.m.to 11:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m.to 11:00 a.m. The first shift of empfayees called to duty for a snow and ice control shift, whefher it be the 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. shift or the 11:00 p.m. to 11:00 a.m. shift, shatt be given the opportun'ity to work all regularfy scheduled hours during the s