2020-12 - 2020-22 Public Works Collective Bargaining Agreements

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B. If a sufficient number of employees still have not been obtained and the situation constitutes an emergency (as declared by the Mayor, the Director of Public Works or the Acting Director of Public Works), the City may assign the work to qualified employees from the city-wide seniority list in reverse order of seniority. 15.08 Once the Mayor, the Director of Public Works or the Acting Director of Public Works has declared an emergency, the appropriate steward or Union President shall be notified within twenty- four (24) hours. 15.09 A record of all overtime hours worked by or credited to each employee, by classification, by division, and in a payroll period, shall be recorded on lists by the City and posted in each division. The lists shall be updated in a timely fashion 15.10 Supervisory employees shall not work bargaining unit overtime if members of the bargaining unit are available. College and temporary employees shall not work bargaining unit overtime work. 15.11 When overtime is necessary, and the overtime is a continuous extension of the regular workday, and does not exceed one (1) hour and thirty (30) minutes, those employees working at the work site at the end of the workday shall be offered the overtime without regard to provisions set forth herein, if those employees offered the overtime refuse, if an emergency is declared by the immediate supervisor, they shall finish the assignment (work the overtime). An emergency is defined as an impairment in City services or operations, which cannot wait or be delayed until the beginning of the next regular workday. The steward shall be notified of the declared emergency within twenty-four (24) hours in that division. For Fleet mechanics only, extension of the day can occur at the beginning of the shift of an employee is asked and agrees to work on a vehicle/equipment they were previously working on during their regular shift. The employer will not purposefully utilize this language to circumvent normal equalization of overtime. 15.12 If the employee is inadvertently passed over for overtime on an OT call out list, the employee shall be guaranteed the actual overtime lost and the employee shall be the next called until the overtime lost has been worked, and his or her name shall be placed on the same the call -out list as though the employee was not passed over. If an employee is passed over for overtime two (2) times in a rolling year, on the same call out list, the employee will be paid on an hour -for -hour basis for the overtime lost on the second or subsequent instance. 15.13 When scheduled overtime becomes necessary, the employee shall be advised of the amount of overtime to be worked, however, if the employee is no longer needed for the scheduled time for any reason (ie, weather conditions, job completed, unable to continue job) than the employee will be paid for time worked or up to 4 hours, whichever is longer. Scheduled OT does not need to be offered in 4 or 8 hour increments. If an employee requests to leave the job site after working the scheduled amount of overtime, the employee's request shall be granted unless they are working under declared emergency conditions. ARTICLE 16 GENERAL LEAVETERSONAL LEAVE 15