R2024-362 Resolution Authorizing Collective Bargaining Agreement for Pay and Benefits - AFSCME Council 31 and Local 268, General Service Employees

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Section 7. Employees duly appointed to serve as members or alternates of the Union's bargaining committee for purposes of negotiating agreements with the City covering wages, hours, and other conditions of employment shall be permitted to attend bargaining sessions with the City concerning such agreements during regularly scheduled hours of duty with no loss of pay. Section 8. Employees who attend schools or training sessions during scheduled working hours that are work related shall be paid at their regular rate of pay for all hours actually spent in class or in instruction. The City shall generally encourage equal access to training opportunities to the extent that operational requirements of the departments permit. Section 9. An employee duly appointed or elected as a Union officer or steward may conduct Union business during the first and last hours of his or her assigned shift, but only after notifying said employee's immediate non-bargaining unit supervisor. Section 10. All requests for leave pursuant to the Family Medical Leave Act shall be in accordance with Administrative Policy & Procedure No. F-451. Section 11. The Union shall be permitted to conduct a thirty (30) minute orientation ses- sion for new employees at the conclusion of the new employee's first thirty (30) days of employ- ment, without loss of compensation to the employee. The session shall be scheduled in coordi- nation with the Human Resources Department and at the convenience of the new employee's operating department. Section 12. Authorized leave of absence without pay may be granted to an employee for official Union business. Such time shall be used for the attendance of labor-related training and seminars selected by the Union. Only those employees serving as the Union's officers and shop stewards shall be eligible for such unpaid release time. The Union shall give reasonable advance notice when such employees will be utilizing such unpaid leave. The employee may use accrued vacation, holiday, or compensatory time in lieu of unpaid leave; use of such paid leave time shall not be unreasonably denied. ARTICLE 16 JOB-RELATED ILLNESS INJURY OR DISABILITY Section 1. The City shall provide worker's compensation in accordance with State law for all employees in the classified service. Section 2.An employee who becomes ill, injured or disabled shall report to his supervisor such fact as soon as possible. Section 3. In the case of injury, illness or disability arising out of and in the course of employment with the City,the City will pay the difference between such employee's regular salary or wage and any payments received by the employee from a public employee pension fund or under the provisions of worker's compensation or occupational disease laws, or either or both, for the duration of such disability, or a total cumulative period of 130 working days after such disabil- ity, whichever is the shorter period of time. Deductions shall be made from the employee's accu- mulated paid leave equivalent to the number of days or portion thereof for which no payments to the employee are made or required under the provisions of public employee pension laws or worker's compensation or occupational disease laws, and for which the City must compensate 24