contract between the city of cleveland local 100, afscme ohio council ...

118. There shall be two (2) fifteen (15) minute rest periods on each shift, each work day. The
rest periods, to the extent practicable, will be scheduled during the middle two (2) hours of each
one-half (2) shift but they may not be scheduled immediately before or after the meal period or at
the start or the end of the shift.
119. When an employee works beyond his regular quitting time, the employee shall receive a
fifteen ( 15) minute rest period if the employee works two (2) hours, but less than four ( 4) hours,
for each four (4) hour period and, in addition, a thirty (30) minute meal period if the employee
works four ( 4) hours or longer.
DOCKING
120. The City will dock employees on the basis of one-tenth (1/1 0), or six (6) minutes per
hour.
EQUALIZATION OF OVERTIME
121. The City shall be the sole judge of the necessity of overtime. Overtime shall be offered
to employees within the same job classification within the same division in accordance with job
classification seniority.
122. In cases where the City maintains that the employee's regular work assignment is unique
to an operational work unit within the division and cannot be performed by others in the same
job classification within the division, the City shall meet with the Union for the purpose of
attempting to agree upon a waiver of this provision. If the parties cannot agree, the Union may
submit a grievance directly to Step Three (3) of the Grievance Procedure. During the pendency
of the grievance, the City may offer the overtime solely within the operational work unit and the
grant of this right does not constitute a waiver of any remedy in the event the grievance is
sustained.
123. Emergency overtime cannot be refused. An emergency is defined as an impairment to
City services or operations which cannot be delayed until the beginning of the next regular work
day. However, an employee may be excused from emergency overtime provided a replacement
can be obtained in time to meet the City's emergency.
124. Overtime shall be equalized on a continuing basis. The City shall credit employees for
all overtime hours worked and/or for overtime hours offered for which employees have declined
or failed to work for any reason.
125. A record of all overtime hours worked and all overtime hours offered which employees
declined or failed to work for any reason shall be recorded on a list by the City and the
supervisor, timekeeper or payroll clerk keeping the record shall make the overtime record
available to the employee or the Union upon request.
126. Supervisors shall not be assigned overtime work that is conventionally performed by
members of the bargaining unit unless employees in the classification needed for the work who
are on the appropriate list for ove1iime are unavailable or refuse the overtime work.
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