2008-81 AUTHORIZING CONTRACT PAY AND BENEFITS - AFSCME LOCAL 268, GENERAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES

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at least two (2) consecutive days off; such employees may elect to utilize an accumulated holi- , day or vacation day when a third consecutive day off is scheduled. (b) The City may establish new shifts, within the limitations provided in this Section. Em- ployees within job classifications 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 re- quests shall be honored in order by seniority; such opportunity to volunteer for assignment to such new shift shall be offered to employees not less frequently than once per fiscal year, and more senior employees may bump less senior employees there from. The City shall assign em- ployees to a new shift after all eligible employees have had an opportunity to volunteer for as- signment thereto. When a new shift has been so established and staffed, as herein provided, the City may transfer employees of the same classification between and among all shifts within the affected department if it finds that any shift, as staffed, does not contain sufficient seniority among the employees thereof to operate in the best interests of the City; provided that, the City may not so transfer any employee from a new shift until all employees in the same classification and on the same new shift, with less seniority, have been transferred. The City cannot create new shifts solely to avoid payment of overtime. Section 3. Except during periods when snow and ice control shifts are in operation, em- ployees shall be scheduled to serve on a regular duty shift which has a regular starting and quit- ting time. 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 accumulating, has accumulated or is ex- pected to accumulate on the public streets at such depths or at such a rate that around-the- clock snow or ice control operations are necessary until the public strelets are clear and the pe- riod of accumulation is ended. (c) The City shall not use or call snow and ice control shifts fot the purpose of avoiding or circumventing payment for overtime. (d) Three lists of employees shall 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 overtim�'. Employees of like posi- tions on the A and B lists shall be allowed to trade positions on said lists during the year subject to the approval of the Department Director, 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 emplpyees called to duty for a snow and ice control shift, whether 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, shall be given the opportunity to work all regularly scheduled hours during the duty day on which the snow and ice control shift was worked as well �s the hours required for the snow and ice control shift. (fl If the snow and ice control shifts have been canceled prior to or during the second shift of employees called to duty during the first 24 hours of said shifts, whether 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, said second shift of employees shall work a minimum of eight hours and be given the opportunity to vu�ork no more than twelve s