AFSCME Contract - MMB Home - Minnesota Management & Budget

Transition/Nursing Home only:
You cannot be assigned mandatory overtime on the night shift if you are currently working a late
shift and are scheduled for a late shift the next day with an early shift the day after that.
You cannot be assigned overtime for more than twenty-four (24) hours within a forty-eight (48)
hour period unless there is an emergency.
Once overtime is assigned/granted to an employee, it cannot be canceled so that an intermittent
employee can work unless the employee originally assigned/granted the overtime agrees.
METO/CSS and Transition/Nursing Home Employees only:
Your supervisor will make every effort to offer/assign overtime work as soon as possible.
If you are prohibited from working mandatory overtime because of medical restrictions, you may
not volunteer for overtime/extra hours contrary to those restrictions.
If the work requiring overtime is already in progress, the employees performing the work will be
assigned the overtime.
If your supervisor needs someone to work overtime for the next (immediate subsequent) shift,
(s)he will:
1. Decide which classes(es) will perform the work.
2. Offer the overtime to all capable and qualified on duty employees in the select class(es)
and work area (most State Seniority to least until work is accepted. If no one accepts,
3. Offer the overtime work to all capable and qualified off duty employees in the selected
classes from the same pool as identified in #2 above (most State Seniority to least) until the
work is accepted. If no one accepts the overtime,
4. Assign the mandatory overtime to the employee from the same pool with the least State
Seniority. (This assignment is rotated within each pay period starting with the least senior,
capable and qualified employee.)
If your supervisor needs someone to work overtime for any time other than the next shift, (s)he will:
1. Decide which class(es) will perform the work.
2. Offer the overtime to capable and qualified employees within the selected class(es) and
work area (most State Seniority to least) until the work is accepted. If no one accepts,
3. Assign the mandatory overtime to the capable and qualified employee in the selected
class(es) and work area with the least State Seniority who is scheduled to work the shift
right before the shift where the overtime is needed.
4. If no one is scheduled right before the overtime shift, assign the mandatory overtime to the
employee with the least State Seniority in the pool of people identified in #2 above. (This
assignment is rotated within each pay period starting with the least senior, capable and
qualified employee.)
2013-2015 AFSCME Contract – Page 262