Employee Organization Leave. (a) The State shall grant a total of 400 days of Employee Organization Leave during each year of this Agreement for the use of employees for attendance at PEF Executive Board meetings or PEF Committee meetings. Within 30 days of the execution of this Agreement, PEF shall provide the State with a list of committees and boards in the categories described above along with the names and work locations of employees appointed to those committees and boards. Such list supplied by PEF shall also identify Regional Coordinators. Only employees so designated shall be entitled to authorized Employee Organization Leave for the committees, boards, and Regional Coordinators provided as required above. PEF shall notify the State in writing of any additions or deletions of committees and boards and/or employees assigned to those committees and boards. Such written notification shall also identify any additions or deletions to PEF’s list of Regional Coordinators designated to use Employee Organization Leave. PEF may also request, in advance, Employee Organization Leave for nondesignated employees to participate in activities of the committees and boards. Failure to designate employees as provided herein can result in the forfeiture of Employee Organization Leave for the desired purpose at the State’s discretion. The use of such leave shall be granted to individual employees designated in advance by PEF, on the dates specified by PEF, contingent on the State’s advance receipt of requests for such leave and designation of individual employees, and to the extent that the resulting absences of any individual employee will not unreasonably interfere with an agency’s operations. Procedures for the advance request for the use of such leave and advance designation of employees, and for the recording of the use of leave and maintaining of the remaining balance, shall be by means mutually agreed to by the Director of the Office of Employee Relations and the President of PEF.
(b) The State shall grant Employee Organization Leave for one PEF delegate meeting in each year of this Agreement. Such Employee Organization Leave shall be limited to three (3) days each for up to nine hundred and fifty (950) persons. The granting of such leave to individual employees shall be subject to the same procedures and limitations as specified in subsection (a) above.
(1) Unused Employee Organization Leave available pursuant to Article 4.7(b) shall be added to Employee Organization Leave available pursu...
Employee Organization Leave. A. Leave for MSEA-SEIU Organization Activities The Trustees shall provide Employee Organization Leave without loss of pay or benefits for up to (3) combined Supervisory and Support Services unit members and officers of the MSEA-SEIU Board of Directors to attend a maximum of one (1) one-day meeting per month of the Board of Directors. For purposes of this Article, the Board of Directors shall consist of sixteen (16) members: twelve (12) from the Council, the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of MSEA-SEIU. Additionally, the Trustees shall provide one (1) day per year Employee Organization Leave with pay for up to fifteen (15) combined Supervisory and Support Services Unit MSEA-SEIU members who have an official capacity to attend the annual MSEA-SEIU council meeting. At MSEA-SEIU’s discretion, an employee requiring two (2) days leave to attend the annual meeting may be allotted two (2) of the (15) days. Those affected employees shall take either vacation or compensating time to attend the Convention. After the Convention, within ten (10) workdays, MSEA-SEIU shall furnish the Trustees with the list of names and work locations of employees who shall be granted the fifteen (15) days allowed under this section. The Trustees shall restore vacation and comp time credits used within ten (10) workdays of receipt of MSEA-SEIU’s list of eligible employees. Employees who have no vacation or compensating time credits shall be granted Organization Leave as currently provided. In such case, MSEA- SEIU shall provide the System President with at least two (2) weeks notice of names and work locations of the affected employees. Employees requiring use of vacation or compensating time credits shall be allowed to do so as they have in the past in accordance with the Employee Organization Leave Articles of their respective contracts (i.e., not restricted by terms of Vacation, Comp Time Articles.)
Employee Organization Leave. Notification of a unit member's intent to take Employee Organization Leave shall be submitted to the Vice Chancellor of Human Resources no later than thirty (30) days prior to the starting date of the leave. In addition to the leave benefits granted to representatives of employee organizations by law, unit members on employee organization leave shall not accrue vacation credit, nor submit time reports for vacation leaves. Sick leave shall continue to accrue and sick leave time reporting shall be processed through the Vice Chancellor of Human Resources. AFT shall notify the District no less than sixty days (60) prior to the return to service of a unit member on Employee Organization Leave.
Employee Organization Leave. (a) The Union shall designate at least quarterly, in writing, those employees who are authorized to take employee organization leave (“EOL”). The Deputy Director for Labor Relations shall establish uniform procedures regarding the maintenance and submission of monthly reports of EOL.
(b) Individuals duly designated by the Union shall be permitted to perform the following functions without loss of pay or other employee benefits, except as limited by Section 4.7(d):
(1) To investigate grievances, assist in their early resolution, and to process them at all levels of the grievance procedure.
(2) To participate in meetings of the Labor/Management Committee.
(3) To meet or confer with the Chief Administrative Judge or any of his/her representatives on matters affecting labor/management relations, where such meetings or conferences have been previously approved by the Chief Administrative Judge.
(4) To negotiate, prepare for negotiations, or confer with the Deputy Director for Labor Relations or his/her representative, and to participate in fact-finding or other collective bargaining impasse procedures.
(5) To confer with and/or appear before PERB, Department of Audit and Control, New York State Employees’ Retirement System, and the Civil Service Commission on matters which may have any effect on labor/management relations.
(6) To confer with and/or appear before any Federal wage regulatory agency or Occupational Health and Safety Commission.
(7) To attend award, honor, graduating and promotional ceremonies as employee representatives, provided that no more than ten workdays in any calendar year are used for such purposes.
(8) To attend funerals and memorial services for employees who are killed in the line of duty (officers of the Union and an honor guard and such others as the Deputy Director for Labor Relations may approve).
(9) To engage in any other activity which may be approved by the Deputy Director for Labor Relations consistent with the conduct of labor/management relations.
(10) To attend meetings as a trustee of the Union Welfare Fund, up to four such meetings per year.
(11) To attend meetings of the Ninth Judicial District Court Employees Association, for no more than one such meeting per month.
(12) Subject to the reasonable operating needs of the court or court-related agency, no more than ten employees will be granted up to five days plus travel time in any calendar year for the purpose of attending Union conferences, seminars or workshops, and t...
Employee Organization Leave. The Association may have not more than one (1) employee in the unit on leave of absence to accept employment with the Association. These leaves are subject to Civil Service Rules. The employee must be an elected or appointed official or full time representative of the Association with a minimum of one (1) year's continuous employment with the County. The requested leave shall only be granted if the prime reasons for the leave shall be to conduct Association business as it is related to County functions. The leave shall be without County pay or benefits of any kind. In no case shall an individual employee's leave extend beyond a year.
Employee Organization Leave.
A. Leave for MSEA-SEIU Organization Activities The Trustees shall provide Employee Organization Leave without loss of pay or benefits for up to (3) combined Supervisory and Support Services unit members and officers of the MSEA-SEIU Board of Directors to attend a maximum of one (1) one-day meeting per month of the Board of Directors. For purposes of this Article, the Board of Directors shall consist of sixteen
Employee Organization Leave. The Union will provide the Legislative Council or its designee with a list of three (3) bargaining unit employees that it has designated as stewards (the “designated stewards”). The Union will promptly notify the Legislative Council or its designee when changes occur. The designated stewards will be allowed an aggregate of seventy-two (72) hours away from work in a calendar year without loss of pay for required meetings, to attend meetings with new employees, to investigate and process grievances that arise in the bargaining unit, or to attend xxxxxxx training. All other leave to attend xxxxxxx training during the workday must be either 1) during the employee’s nonworking time, or 2) the employee must request legislative leave, vacation leave or use compensating time, or 3) the employee may request unpaid leave. When leave to attend xxxxxxx training is requested, the Legislative Council must receive ten (10) workdays’ advance notice. Requests will be approved if it is determined that the employee’s absence will not adversely affect operations or place an undue work burden on other employees. When a designated xxxxxxx requests time away from work to investigate or process a grievance, the office director must give approval unless the time away from work would adversely affect operations or place an undue work burden on other employees. If the request cannot be approved immediately because of operational considerations or work demands, it will be approved as soon as it is reasonably practical. Xxxxxxx activity that extends beyond the scheduled workday will not be considered time worked for benefits or pay purposes. MSEA retains the exclusive right to nominate, replace, and/or otherwise select the Administrative Unit of Legislative Employees’ representative to any legislatively-approved and/or statutory commission, council, and/or board with designated membership for the bargaining unit and/or its employees, subject to subsections a and b as follows:
a. The Legislative Council maintains the ability to express concerns to MSEA, at the time of selection or at any time throughout the selected employee’s participation, about a particular employee’s participation on any legislatively-approved and/or statutory commission, council, and/or board, including concerns about the following employees’ participation:
i. Employees with disciplinary issues that may impact performance on such commission(s), council(s), and/or board(s);
ii. Employees on performance improvemen...
Employee Organization Leave. A. Leave for MSEA Organization Activities The School shall provide Employee Organization Leave without loss of pay or benefits for one employee who is a member and officer of the MSEA Board of Directors to attend a maximum of one (1) one-day meeting per month of the Board of Directors. For purposes of this Article, the Board of Directors shall consist of sixteen (16) members: twelve (12) from the Council, the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of MSEA. Additionally, the School shall provide one (1) day per year Employee Organization Leave with pay for one MSEA member who has an official capacity to attend the annual MSEA Council meeting. The employee shall provide the Executive Director with at least two (2) weeks’ notice of the meeting and provide documentation of attendance upon their return.
Employee Organization Leave. 11.1 UUP Meetings
a. Delegate Assembly—UUP delegates, State employee members of its Executive Board, the Parliamen- tarian, and chairpersons of its standing committees required by UUP’s constitution and by-laws to attend meetings of the Delegate Assembly shall be granted up to three days of employee organization leave per Agreement year, including travel time, for attendance at delegate meetings. Under special circumstances and upon advance request, additional employee organization leave for additional delegate meetings may be granted by the Director of the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations.
b. Executive Board—Each State employee member of UUP’s Executive Board and the Parliamentarian shall be granted up to eight days of employee organization leave per Agreement year, including travel time, for attendance at Executive Board meetings. An employee who succeeds a member of such Board or succeeds as the Parliamentarian shall be granted the balance of employee organization leave available to such member or the Parliamentarian for the Agreement year for attendance at Board meetings.
c. Standing and Ad Hoc Committees—There shall be available a total of 304 employee organization leave days per Agreement year for use by State employee members of UUP’s Standing and Ad Hoc Committees.
Employee Organization Leave. (a) Reasonable numbers of DC-37 designees will be granted reasonable amounts of Employee Organization Leave to participate in meetings of joint labor/management committees, the conduct of negotiations for a successor agreement, and the representation of employees in the grievance procedure, with no charge to the employees' leave credits. The use of such leave will be contingent on the submission of requests in advance, and shall be granted to the extent the resulting absences will not unreasonably interfere with an agency's operations. Reasonable and actual travel time in connection with such leave shall also be granted, subject to the same limitation and subject to a maximum of five (5) hours each way for any meeting. Leave for contract negotiations or for labor/management committees pursuant to this provision shall be granted only to employees in this unit designated in advance by DC-37 and approved by the Director of Employee Relations; leave for grievance representation pursuant to this provision shall be granted only to persons designated for this purpose by DC-37 in a listing of authorized grievance representatives furnished quarterly by DC-37 to the Director of the Governor's Office of Employee Relations.
(b) The State shall grant a total of seven days of Employee Organization Leave during each year of this Agreement for use by up to five designees of DC-37 for attendance at DC-37 board or committee meetings or other internal DC-37 business. Such leave shall be granted to the designee(s) of DC-37 on the dates specified by DC- 37 to the extent that resulting absences will not unreasonably interfere with an agency's operations. Procedures for the advance request of such leave and for the recording of such leave shall be as mutually agreed by DC-37 and the Director of the Governor's Office of Employee Relations.
(c) Effective January 1, 2005, the State shall grant Employee Organization Leave for one delegate meeting in each year of this Agreement. Such Employee Organization Leave shall be limited to five (5) days for up to five (5) people.
(d) Under special circumstances, and upon advance request, additional Employee Organization Leave may be granted by the Director of Employee Relations.
