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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 the most state
seniority within a team function, or by state seniority among all unit employees not on a team or in
a specific functions, or by state seniority among all unit employees. Management shall define
"team" and "function" for the purposes of this Supplemental Agreement. 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.
Article 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 calendar 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 or forty (40) hours in a "work week", including
paid leave time.
Article 5
Holidays and Paid Leave Hours
When the holiday falls on a day the employee normally works eight (8), eight and one-half (8 1/2)
hours or nine (9) hours, the employee shall be paid holiday pay for eight (8) hours.
Employees normally working eight and one-half (8 1/2) hour days will work the additional one-half
(1/2) hour during the same work week as mutually agreed upon by his/her immediate supervisor.
Employees working nine (9) hour days will work an additional hour on the normally scheduled eight
(8) hour day [which is divided into two (2) four (4) hour periods for "work week" determination] with
the additional hour added to the four (4) hours associated with the "work week" in which the holiday
falls.
When the holiday falls on a day the employee normally works less than eight (8) hours, the
schedule shall be exchanged with the closest eight (8), eight and one-half (8 1/2) hour day to the
holiday that still falls within the same Wednesday through Tuesday work week. If the holiday falls
on an employee's scheduled weekday off, the holiday shall be observed on the same day a week
earlier or later, whichever fits into the normal pay period.
This Supplemental Agreement 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.
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