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Article 4
Attendance at Union Meetings
The provisions of the Master Agreement shall be supplemented and/or modified as follows:
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 one and one-half (1 ½) hours.
Employees who desire to make these adjustments must request prior approval from their
supervisor or other Administrator designee five (5) calendar days in advance of the meeting date,
or less with supervisory approval. Requests shall include an indication of the length of release
time requested. Approval of these requests will not be unreasonably withheld. The Administrator
reserves the right to rescind this approval in the event of 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 five (5) working days after the meeting, if work is available, to prevent a loss of earnings.
In the event work is available and an employee requests to work extra hours to offset time spent at
union meetings, the Administrator shall not approve the request if it would result in the payment of
overtime unless overtime is assigned as outlined in this supplement.
Article 5
Conflicts of Interest
The following practices are to be followed in situations involving the employment or potential
employment of members of the same family unit:
1. Employees who have responsibility for hiring will disqualify themselves for any situations
involving the hiring of another family member.
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 members shall mean: spouse, children, siblings (including sisters/brothers-in-law),
parents, and parents of spouse.
5. Performance appraisals are to be done by an unrelated third party.
Article 6
Overnight Activities
The total compensation granted employees assigned to overnight activities which involve the
supervision of residents when such assignments are twenty-four (24) hours shall be as follows:
eight (8) hours straight time, eight (8) hours at the appropriate overtime rate, and, if so designated,
eight (8) hours at the on call rate.
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