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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Article 1
Attendance at Union Meetings
The provisions of the Master Agreement shall be supplemented and/or modified as follows:
Employees may be permitted to adjust their hours or work to permit their attendance at regular
monthly meetings of the Local Union. Such adjustments shall be of reasonable duration, not to
exceed one (1) hour.
Employees who desire to make these adjustments must request prior approval from their
supervisor or other Appointing Authority designee five (5) calendar days in advance of the meeting
date. Requests shall include an indication of the length of release time requested. Approval of
these requests will 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 during the time of the meeting. Employees shall receive no compensation for
time spent at Union meetings, but may utilize vacation leave or work extra hours, within five (5)
working days, if work is available, to prevent a loss of earnings.
In the event work is available and an employee elects to work extra hours to offset time spent at
Union meetings, the Appointing Authority shall have no liability for overtime hours of pay until the
employee has worked an amount of time outside his/her regular shift which is equal to the amount
of time spent at a Union meeting.
Article 2
Bidding
The provisions of Article 12, Section 6 of the Master Agreement shall be supplemented and/or
modified as follows: In the event a vacancy occurs within the AFSCME bargaining units, that
position shall be posted and filled according to Article 12 of the AFSCME Agreement, and shall be
open for bids from all eligible employees within that classification within the Minnesota Department
of Education excluding the Residential Academies.
DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Article 1
Article 15, Section 3C of the Master Agreement shall be supplemented and/or modified as follows:
Layoff Notification
Layoffs which are necessary shall be on the basis of inverse Classification Seniority (Units 2, 3 and
7) or State Seniority (Unit 6) within employment condition, seniority unit, and work location. The
Appointing Authority shall send a layoff notice to the employee with the least Classification
Seniority in the same class (or class option), employment condition, shift and seniority unit within
the work location of the position to be eliminated. Work locations for this Article are listed in
Appendix A of this Supplement.
The balance of the layoff procedure shall be accomplished in accordance with the Master
Agreement beginning at Article 15, Section 3D1b.
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