Voluntary Deductions A. The Employer agrees to deduct from the wages of any employee who is a member of the Union a DRIVE and/or a Teamsters Legal Defense Fund deduction as provided for in a written authorization. Such authorization must be executed by the employee and may be revoked by the employee at any time by giving written notice to both the Employer and the Union. The beginning and/or termination of this deduction will coincide with the payroll cycle. The Employer agrees to remit any deductions made pursuant to this provision to the Union together with a report showing:
Voluntary Demotion or Voluntary Reduction in Hours An employee has a right to his regularly assigned time, and shall not have it involuntarily reduced. Employees who take voluntary demotions or voluntary reductions in assigned time in lieu of layoff shall be, at the employee’s option, returned to a position in their former class or to present former positions with increased assigned time as vacancies become available, for a period of five (5) years and three (3) months, except that they shall be ranked in accordance with their seniority on any valid reemployment list.
Voluntary Demotions For purposes of this Section, the term Aopening@ shall apply to any permanent vacancy in a classification. An employee may vacate from his current classification once per year given there is an opening and the employee is qualified to perform in the lower classification to which the employee has requested a demotion. The Department will assign voluntarily demoted employees beginning with the next employee pay cycle. Employees will have thirty (30) days to certify for position openings. No employee shall be displaced from the Department through a voluntary demotion. Employees who voluntarily demote to a lower classification will be placed in the new payline for the lower classification based on their years of service in the lower classification. Employees that voluntarily demote to the classification of Firefighter will receive credit for total time spent in the Department when being placed on that payline.
Salary Deductions Salaried employees (E-level classifications) who are permanently assigned to full-time job classifications are paid on a bi-weekly salary basis. Salaried employees are paid a bi-weekly salary based on a minimum of two (2) forty (40) hour workweeks. The bi-weekly salary received by salaried employees will not be reduced regardless of the number of hours the salaried employee actually works in any week in which the salaried employee performs any work except for the following deductions:
Voluntary quit 2. Discharge for just cause.
Payroll Deduction of Fair Share Fee The Board shall deduct from the pay of all employees in the bargaining unit who elect not to become or to remain members of the Association, a Fair Share Fee for the Association’s representation of such non-members during the term of this Agreement. No non-member filing a timely demand shall be required to subsidize partisan political or ideological causes not germane to the Association’s work in the realm of collective bargaining.
Voluntary Demotion An employee requesting a voluntary demotion from a higher-rated position and who is subsequently demoted to the lower-rated position, shall be paid on the increment step appropriate to the employee’s continuous service with the Employer. A voluntary demotion shall not change an employee’s anniversary date.
Other Payroll Deductions In addition to the above, the City will deduct from an employee's payroll check, upon authorization by the employee, amounts payable to causes or organizations selected by the Union. At any one time, no more than ten (10) such causes or organizations may be identified by the Union as authorized to benefit from such payroll deductions unless otherwise authorized by the City in its sole discretion. The Union will notify the City of the causes and organizations to be so authorized. Payroll deductions shall be governed by the ability of the City Auditor's payroll system to handle same.
DUES AND DEDUCTIONS The Union shall have the regular dues of its bargaining unit members deducted from their paychecks under procedures as follows: The Union is solely responsible for distributing to, and collecting from, employees the dues and voluntary deduction authorization forms. It is the employees’ responsibility to submit requests to start or stop deductions directly to the Union and not to the County. The Union is responsible for maintaining the deduction forms from individual employees. Copies of an individual employee’s deduction authorization need not be provided to the County unless a dispute arises about the existence or terms of the authorization. Questions regarding Union membership, dues amounts, and payroll deductions must be directed to the Union and not the County. The Union will provide to the County an updated, certified deduction list of bargaining unit members who have provided written authorization for deductions. The County will make deductions for only those employees who are in the bargaining unit in accordance with such certified list. The Union will notify the County of any change to an employee’s deductions, including starting and stopping deductions, or validly cancelling or revoking a deduction authorization, and will provide the County on a weekly basis, an updated, certified deduction list noting any specific changes from the last list provided to the County. The County will implement the change(s) in the pay period following the County’s receipt of such notification. The Union will pay the County’s standard administrative fees for payroll deductions, which is currently estimated at $0.03 per employee for all dues paying bargaining unit members, per pay period. Upon written notice from the County, the Union agrees to reopen and meet within 30 days of notice to increase administrative fees. Following the County’s deductions of these administrative fees, the County will electronically transmit the balance of funds to the Union no later than thirty (30) days after the deductions occur. The Union shall indemnify, defend, and hold the County, its officers, agents, and employees harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, defense costs, suits, or other action or liability of any kind or nature arising from this section, including, claims for or related to employee authorizations, revocations, deductions made, cancelled, or changed in reliance on the Union’s representations and certifications regarding employee dues deduction authorizations. This section of the MOU is not grievable.
