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GAMBLING CONTROL BOARD
Article 1
Flex-Time Schedules
Should the current hours of the Gambling Control Board change over the duration of the Master
Agreement, the Appointing Authority shall provide the local union with a thirty (30) calendar day
written notice of such change, and, if requested, by the local union, the Appointing Authority and
the local union will meet and confer to discuss possible flex-time options.
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - ALL FACILITIES
Article 1
No Layoff Agreement
Section 1. This Agreement is made between the State of Minnesota and the various bargaining
unit representatives with respect to the restructuring of the State's health facility system and
opportunities which will be provided employees as change occurs.
This Agreement will become effective only if the Legislature substantially authorizes the policy and
funding necessary to implement the department's re-structuring plan.
The parties agree to the following terms in order to ensure that fair and equitable arrangements are
carried out to protect the interests of affected State employees under the re-structuring. These
terms shall be part of the collective bargaining Agreements between parties and shall be
implemented through the master and supplemental Agreements.
1. As a result of changes in the department's service delivery system, no person employed by a
State-operated treatment center or nursing home except a temporary employee, intermittent or
emergency employee shall suffer a reduction in pay or be involuntarily laid off. Hours of work
of full-time unlimited employees shall not be involuntarily reduced. The hours of work of parttime
employees shall not be involuntarily reduced below their current level of Employer paid
insurance contributions.
Employees hired on or after August 1, 2005 shall retain only those rights provided for under the
normal separation procedures.
Intermittent employees who are laid off shall retain rights under their normal separation
procedures.
2. Reduction in employee numbers will be made through normal attrition and through the
provisions detailed in the employee mitigation to layoff section of this agreement.
3. Nothing in the Agreement shall be interpreted as entitling an employee to lifetime employment
or as protecting an employee against discharge for just cause.
4. Employees of the department who move to State operated community based facilities in accord
with the re-structuring proposal will be guaranteed collective bargaining rights as applicable
under M.S. 179A and other rights under M.S. 43A, M.S. 352, and M.S. 354.
5. Training and re-training of staff who, as a result of re-structuring, fill a position in a state
operated community based facility, or staff who fill a position within a facility, or between
facilities, will be the responsibility of the department. The department will make every
reasonable effort to coordinate training and re-training with public institutions or post-secondary
education.
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