Common use of CITY AND UNION PAID RELEASE TIME Clause in Contracts

CITY AND UNION PAID RELEASE TIME. The City and Union agree that city-paid release time is important for the Union to carry out its statutory representation obligations and to effectively meet and confer with the City of Oakland. The Union may also have discretionary requests for union-paid release time to conduct union business that is apart from city-paid release time. City-paid and union-paid release time affect the operations of the employees’ departments, therefore, the union will give the City as much advance notification as possible, and shall make a good faith effort to give a minimum of seventy-two (72) hours advance notice. For department requests, such as for a union xxxxxxx to attend a department grievance meeting, the request for release time is to be made to the employee’s immediate supervisor. For meeting and conferring, or city-wide matters including arbitrations, the request for release time is made to the Employee Relations Department. Requests for union-paid release time is also made to the Employee Relations Department.

CITY AND UNION PAID RELEASE TIME. The City and Union agree that city-paid release time is important for the Union to carry out its statutory representation obligations and to effectively meet and confer with the City of Oakland. The Union may also have discretionary requests for union-paid release time to conduct union business that is apart from city-paid release time. City-paid and union-paid release time affect the operations of the employees’ ' departments, therefore, the union will give the City as much advance notification as possible, and shall make a good faith effort to give a minimum of seventy-two (72) hours advance notice. For department requests, such as for a union xxxxxxx to attend a department grievance meeting, the request for release time is to be made to the employee’s 's immediate supervisor. For meeting and conferring, or city-wide matters including arbitrations, the request for release time is made to the Employee Relations Department. Requests for union-paid release time is also made to the Employee Relations Department.