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Employees may be permitted to adjust their hours of work to permit travel time necessary to attend
regular monthly Local and Executive Board meetings of the Local Union. Such adjustments shall
be of reasonable duration, not to exceed two (2) hours and shall be at the beginning of the shift.
Employees who desire to make these adjustments must request and be granted approval from
their immediate supervisor or other Appointing Authority designee in advance of the meeting date.
Requests shall show the hours of release time requested. Approval of these requests shall not be
unreasonably withheld. The Appointing Authority reserves the right to rescind this approval in the
event of emergency or other unusual conditions, or to maintain adequate staffing the day of the
meeting.
Employees shall receive no compensation for time spent in such travel, but may utilize vacation
leave, compensatory overtime hours, or work extra hours, within the same payroll period, if work is
available, to prevent a loss of earnings.
In the event work is available and an employee is authorized to work extra hours to offset time
spent in travel to union meetings, the Appointing Authority shall have no liability for overtime hours
or pay until the employee has worked an amount of time outside his/her regular shift which is equal
to the amount of release time requested and used.
Article 8
Meet and Confer
The parties agree to meet and confer on issues that arise during the term of the Agreement.
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