General Release Time Sample Clauses
General Release Time. Except as provided below, no City employee or officer of the OPOA shall be compensated for conducting Association business:
(i) An Association representative processing a grievance shall be allowed a reasonable period of release time to do so, provided that no more than one such representative will be granted such release time to process the grievance.
(ii) A reasonable number of Association representatives shall be allowed reasonable release time to engage in meet and confer discussions, or other discussions, with representatives of the City.
(iii) In addition, the Association President will be granted full release time from his/her normal duties at his/her rank base pay, including all benefits.
(iv) No employee may use City equipment, including vehicles, for Association use or when performing Association-related activities.
General Release Time. On an annual basis each academic year (July 1 – June 30), the District shall provide CSEA with a total of seven hundred (700) hours of non-cumulative release time for the purposes of conducting lawful CSEA business and employee-employer relations matters, excluding collective bargaining. For bargaining purposes, CSEA shall be entitled to reasonable periods of release time for a reasonable number of representatives for meeting and negotiating with the District. CSEA may allocate any portion of this time to its representatives, and will annually submit to the Vice President of Human Resources a list of CSEA officers who may utilize this release time. Requests for release time must be submitted to a unit members immediate supervisor with as much advance notice as practicable, and will be tracked and accounted as a form of leave.