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2. Managers and supervisors will work to address situations where family members are working in
a direct superior/subordinate relationship.
3. The supervision of one family member by another is to be avoided whenever possible. Where
family situations exist, no supervisor or leadworker shall grant any special consideration,
treatment or advantage to another family member beyond that which is available to every other
employee.
4. Family member shall mean spouse, children, siblings, (including sister/brothers-in-law),
parents, and parents of spouse.
5. Performance appraisals are to be done by an unrelated third party.
Article 14
Attendance at Union Meetings
Employees may be permitted to adjust their hours of work to permit their attendance at regular
monthly meetings of the local union. Such adjustments shall be of reasonable duration, not to
exceed two (2) hours.
Employees who desire to make these adjustments must require prior approval from their
immediate supervisor twenty-one (21) calendar days in advance of the meeting date. Requests
shall include an indication of the length of release time requested. Approval of these requests will
not be unreasonably withheld. Requests may be denied if approval would result in the payment of
overtime. The Employer reserves the right to rescind this approval in the event of an 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 the same work week, 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 Employer 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.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
The provisions of the Master Agreement are modified and/or supplemented as follows:
Section 1
Application
The provisions of Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Supplement apply to all seasonal employees of the
Department of Revenue represented by AFSCME, Council 5, AFL-CIO.
Sections 6 through 11, of this Supplement shall apply to all employees of the Department of
Revenue represented by AFSCME, Council 5, AFL-CIO.
Except as specifically modified by this Supplement, all relevant provisions of the Master Agreement
shall apply to these employees.
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