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4. Nine (9) consecutive hours of work for four (4) days of the work week and four (4) consecutive
hours of work combined with four (4) consecutive hours off on one (1) work day during each
work week.
5. Ten (10) consecutive hours of work four (4) days of five (5) each work week.
6. Nine (9) consecutive hours of work for eight (8) days of the work week, eight (8) hours of work
for one (1) day of the work week, eight (8) consecutive hours off on one (1) work day during
each payroll period, provided that the eight (8) hour work day and the eight (8) hour day off
occur on the same day of the week. (For example, if the eight (8) hour work day is Friday, the
eight (8) hour day off must be on the other Friday in the payroll period. The work week for
employees on this schedule begins four (4) hours into the shift on the eight (8) hour work day
and ends exactly one calendar week later.)
Consecutive hours of work shall exclude the normal unpaid lunch period during the work week.
An employee shall make his/her request in writing to his/her immediate supervisor no later than
fourteen (14) calendar days prior to the desired implementation date. Upon supervisor approval,
the schedule shall be effective at the beginning of the next payroll period after approval.
Section 2. Review of Requests. Each Unit Manager may establish a beginning and ending time
between the Bandwidth hours during which all scheduled work shifts must occur. Management
retains the responsibility for denying or terminating individual flextime schedules where they
adversely affect the operation of the unit. Flextime must not interfere with unit operations during
regular business hours. Further, management may exclude any employee or group of employees
if flextime would cause the Department of Labor and Industry to incur additional costs, be
disruptive to the operation of the unit or result in reduced service to the public.
The immediate supervisor shall determine to approve or deny the flextime request of an employee
based on the job-related considerations, including, but not limited to, the operations of the unit and
the provisions of service to the public. If there are conflicting requests from employees and the
needs of the supervisor require that not all requests may be approved, the supervisor shall
approve (if all other considerations indicate approval) the request submitted by the employee with
the most State Seniority among all unit employees not on a team or specific function, or by State
Seniority among all unit employees. Management shall define “team” and “function” for the
purposes of this Agreement. Should conflicts still exist, they shall be resolved by lot.
The immediate supervisor shall note his/her approval on the request memo and give a copy to the
employee. If an employee’s request is altered or denied, a written notice of the decision shall be
provided to the employee within seven (7) calendar days of request receipt and shall be available
to the Union. No request shall be unreasonably denied.
Section 3. Altered Schedules. If requested by the employee, the employee may change days,
shifts or hours of work with the approval of his/her supervisor provided such change is temporary
for a duration of not more than fourteen (14) consecutive calendar days at a time and it does not
result in payment of overtime or cause a change in the seven (7) day period. Any such alteration
must be scheduled so as not to require any full-time employee to work less than eighty (80) hours
in a pay period, including paid leave time.
Section 4. Holidays and Paid Leave Time. When a holiday falls on a day the employee normally
works, the employee shall be paid holiday pay for the number of hours he/she would have worked
that day if there had been no holiday.
When a holiday falls on a flex day off, the employee shall take another work day off per Master
language.
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