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Overview The predecessor agreement between City of North Olmsted (hereafter the "City" or "Employer") and the OPBA (hereafter the "Union") expired December 31, 2023, and covers all full-time Emergency Central Dispatchers. The following outlines the changes to be made to the parties' Agreement should the tentative agreements be accepted by the City. All articles not specifically addressed herein are to remain current contract language. Throughout the Agreement there are minor contract "clean up" changes, such as renumbering, deleting expired language, and titling of sections to allow for easy and quick identification of applicable contract language. These non - substantive changes are not summarized in full here. Article 1. Preamble/Purnose The parties agreed to restructure this language as a true preamble, outside of the body of the agreement. In doing so, feel good language was deleted from the CBA that was not substantively relevant to wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment. Article 1. Union Recognition The parties agreed to add the statutory basis for exclusions to the recognition clause to supplement the current "all other employees of the Employer." Article 3, Dues Deductions The parties agreed to delete the previously required fair share fee language from Section 4 and 5 as it is illegal now. Instead, the parties agreed to add language that states "If the Janus decision is reversed, the parties will meet to negotiate an alternative procedure" Article 4. Non -Discrimination The parties agreed to delete language that lists out protected classes. That language is replaced with a recognition and acknowledgment that any allegation of discrimination based on a legally protected classification under State or Federal law shall be processed through external administrative agencies (EEOC/OCRC). An Interactive Dialogue section is added as an opportunity for the Employee and employees to resolve any issue that may be filed with the EEOC, OCRC, etc. The parties agreed to delete Article 37's gender neutral section and relocate it here to Article 4. Article 6, Internal Investigations The parries added a section that acknowledges any time an employee is to be interviewed on an issue implicating discipline, the employee shall be given appropriate time to obtain legal counsel or a representative of the bargaining unit. Language in Section 5 was deleted that stated where the official personnel files were located 4891-94238183,, 2