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Section 3. Review of Requests. Management retains the responsibility for denying or
terminating individual flex-time schedules where they adversely affect the operation of the unit.
Flex-time must not interfere with unit operations during the normal office hours of Monday through
Friday. Further, management may exclude any employee or group of employees if flex-time would
cause the Minnesota State Lottery 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 flex-time request of an employee
based upon job-related consideration including, but not limited to, the operation of the unit and the
provision 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 most state
seniority within a team function, or by state seniority among all unit employees not on a team or in
a specific function, or by state seniority among all unit employees. Management shall define
"team" and "function" for the purposes of this article. Should conflicts still exist, they shall be
resolved by lot.
The immediate supervisor shall provide the employee with written notice and explanation of the
decision within seven (7) calendar days of request receipt. If an employee's request is denied, a
copy of the written notice and explanation of the decision shall be available to the Union. No
request may be unreasonably denied.
Section 4. Altered Schedules. Upon mutual agreement of the immediate supervisor and the
employee, an employee's schedule may be temporarily altered for a duration of not more than
fourteen (14) consecutive days at a time without regard to the above provisions provided that it
does not result in payment of overtime. Any such alteration must also 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 5. Holidays and Paid Leave Hours. When the holiday falls on a day the employee
normally works eight (8), nine (9), ten (10) or twelve (12) hours, the employee shall be paid holiday
pay for the number of hours s/he would have worked that day had there been no holiday.
When the holiday falls on a day the employee normally works less than eight (8) hours, the
schedule shall be changed with the closest holiday that still falls within the same Wednesday
through Tuesday work week.
This article serves as the fourteen (14) days notice of these schedule changes during holidays as
required under Article 5 of the Master Agreement.
Should an employee be on paid or unpaid leave from work on a day they are scheduled to work,
the time charged to the paid leave or taken as unpaid leave shall be for the total hours (or fraction
thereof), they would have otherwise been in attendance at work that day.
Section 6. Hours of Work. The execution of this Supplemental Agreement hereby amends
Section 2, Subdivision B (Work Day), and Subdivision C (Work Week, Work Period), of Article 5 of
the Master Agreement so as to recognize the legitimacy of a twelve (12) hour work day and four (4)
hour work day.
It is further agreed that no additional paid rest period shall be provided to an employee working on
a flex-time schedule.
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