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Article 2
Noon Meals
Article 20, Section 5, (B) of the Master Agreement shall be amended and/or modified as follows:
1. Whereas, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture is unique in that it has many employees
assigned to field inspector positions who work out of their homes and who drive either their own
personal vehicle or state vehicle on assigned business throughout the course of their normal
work day and who are always away from their home station over the normal noon meal period.
Therefore, the interpretation of noon meal reimbursement shall be modified as follows:
Employees shall be reimbursed for the actual cost (not to exceed contract amount) of the noon
meal if the employee has traveled more than 35 actual road miles before lunch after leaving
his/her permanent work station (excluding employee's hometown).
Article 3
Home Work Station
Article 20 Section 7 of the Master Agreement shall be modified as follows:
The Appointing Authority will provide the employees who are assigned to use their residences as
their office or work station either:
1. Payment of the employee's monthly basic service charge on their present telephone (touchtone
rate); or
2. Payment of the employee's monthly basic service charge for a second telephone line, including
the installation fee (monthly charge would be attached to the employee's expense report).
When an employee is required to have an answering machine/voice mail as a part of the
employment, the employer will provide the machine/ voice mail at no cost to the employee.
Article 4
Part-Time/Unscheduled Employees
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture hereby agrees to change the employment conditions of
not more than five (5) intermittent Plant Industry Inspectors to Part-time/Unscheduled. In order to
be included in this employment condition, the present Plant Industry Inspectors must have
averaged a minimum of 1250 actual hours worked during his/her last calendar year of employment.
“Actual hours worked” shall include all scheduled, unscheduled and overtime hours actually
worked. The Department of Agriculture further agrees that this change in employment condition to
Part-time/Unscheduled will make these employees eligible for insurance benefits under the parttime
coverage provisions of Article 19, Insurance, of the Agreement between AFSCME Council No.
5, AFL-CIO and the State of Minnesota. This agreement would have the employer providing the
employer's contribution for part-time coverage as noted above. For the purposes of moving
intermittent employees into the PT/Unscheduled employment condition, each service point
(identified as work location in the seniority roster) will be considered a work area. This employment
condition will be offered to the most senior Plant Industry Inspector in the service point; if declined,
the next most senior inspector will be offered the change. The offer will progress from most senior
intermittent inspector to least senior intermittent inspector until it is accepted.
Hours will be offered to intermittents by seniority whenever reasonably practicable.
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