2017-24 AFSCME Collective Bargaining Agreement

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Section 6. Temporary Employees - Nothing contained herein shall preclude the City from hiring temporary employees due to leave, illness or other extraordinary circumstance, or as seasonal employees. Such temporary employees shall not be entitled to any of the benefits out- lined herein, except statutory benefits as provided by law. The City will not engage temporary employees in bargaining unit positions for more than 1,000 hours per calendar year. This limita- tion can be extended in individual situations by mutual consent of the City and the Union. ARTICLE 2 PLACE OF RESIDENCE Section 1. Persons appointed to positions in the classified service shall reside within Ma- con County or within fifteen (15) miles of the corporate limits of the City of Decatur. All employees hired after the date of execution of this collective bargaining agreement shall be required to reside within the corporate limits of the City of Decatur for the first five (5) years of employment, and within the corporate limits of Macon County or within fifteen (15) miles of the corporate limits of the City of Decatur thereafter. Upon original appointment, an appointee may reside outside said limits but shall be required as a condition of continued employment to comply with said residency requirement no later than ninety (90) days after the completion of said appointee's probationary period. ARTICLE 3 UNION SECURITY Section 1. The City agrees to deduct from the pay of those employees who individually request it any and all of the following: union membership dues, assessments or fees, P.E.O.P.L.E. contributions, union sponsored health and welfare plan contributions, Earthmovers Credit Union contributions and deposits for all other Credit Unions and banks within the City of Decatur for which at least 10 employees have shown an interest in using. Upon written authori- zation by an employee filed with the Director of Finance thereof, the City shall deduct from wages or salary of such employee such sums as are certified by the Treasurer of the Union or the em- ployee, which sum so deducted shall be delivered to Council 31 or the Earthmovers Credit Union, or other Credit Unions or banks on or before the 15th day of the month next succeeding the month in which such deductions are made. If any employee does not have a check coming to him, or such check is not large enough to satisfy said deductions, no deduction shall be made from the wages or salary of such employee for that month. Section 2. The City shall deduct from the wages or salary of each employee in any clas- sification listed in Exhibit A to this Agreement who is not subject to the wage deduction described in Section 1 of this Article, and at the same time such deduction is made, an amount certified to the City by the Union as the fair share of each such employee of the Union's cost relating to the collective bargaining process, contract administration and pursuing matters affecting wages, hours and conditions of employment, ("fair share deduction"), but such amount shall not exceed the amount of dues uniformly required of members and deducted pursuant to said Section 1 of this Article. Such amount deducted as provided herein shall be delivered to Council 31 on or before the 15th day of the month next succeeding the month in which said amount was deducted; provided that, said amount may be paid to a non-religious charitable organization mutually agreed upon by the employee and the Union, as provided by law. 4