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In the event all capable employees in the same shift and work area decline overtime work, the
Appointing Authority shall have the right to assign overtime based upon inverse order of
Classification Seniority for positions in Units #2 and #3 or State Seniority for positions in Units #4
and #6 among capable employees. In all instances, the overtime work shall first be assigned to
employees on the shift immediately preceding or any shift ending within three hours of the overtime
assignment.
Employees returning from leaves of absence in excess of thirty (30) days shall be credited with the
number of overtime hours equal to the highest number credited to any current employee in the
same class and same work area.
The record of each employee’s accumulated overtime hours worked and overtime offered but not
worked shall be adjusted to 0 (zero) once each year immediately prior to the start of the academic
year.
In the case of special summer programs, overtime shall first be offered to employees who are
working in that specific program.
Tate Hall and Frechette Hall are each a work unit and are considered one work area. Overtime
shall first be offered to employees within the work unit. If no staff accepts the overtime, it will then
be offered in the other work unit of the Tate/Frechette work area. If the overtime need is not filled
after offering to the other work unit, the work unit where the overtime originated will be required to
cover based upon inverse order of State Seniority.
Article 9
Attendance at Union Meetings
The provisions of the Master Agreement shall be supplemented and/or modified as follows:
Local Union officers and stewards shall be allowed to adjust their work schedules to attend Local
Union and Local Executive Board meetings.
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. If adjustment includes release time in the middle of the shift, the request shall include an
indication of the length of the release time. 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 10
Overnight Activities
The total compensation granted employees assigned to overnight activities which involve the
supervision of students when such assignments are twenty-four (24) consecutive hours shall be as
follows: eight (8) hours straight time, eight (8) hours at the appropriate overtime rate, and eight (8)
hours at the on-call rate.
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