DISCIPLINE OF EMPLOYEES Section 1. Any action or behavior which reflects discredit upon the City or is a direct hindrance to the effective performance of the City's municipal governmental and proprietary functions may be considered good cause for disciplinary action against an employee and such actions or behavior which may be considered good cause for disciplinary action shall include, but not be limited to the following:
A. Habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess or the use of narcotics.
B. Being adjudged guilty of a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or disgraceful conduct.
C. Taking intoxicating beverages, or being intoxicated, while on duty.
D. Engaging in improper political activity as defined in Article IXA, Section 8, of the Charter of the City of Lincoln, Nebraska.
E. Offensive conduct or language toward the public or toward City officers or employees.
F. Lacking either mental or physical competence to perform assigned duties.
G. Damaging or being negligent in the care and handling of City property.
H. Violating any lawful and reasonable regulations or directives made or given by a superior.
I. Inducing or attempting to induce any officer or employee in the City service to commit an illegal act or to act in violation of any lawful and reasonable departmental or official regulation or order, or participating therein.
J. Using or attempting to use personal or political influence or bribery to secure an advantage in an examination or promotion, leave of absence, transfer, change of grade, pay or character of work.
K. Failing to pay just debts due or owing or failing to make reasonable provisions for future payment of such debts, thereby causing annoyance to officials of the City, or embarrassment to the City.
L. Any unauthorized absence of an employee from duty shall be deemed to be an absence without pay and may be made grounds for disciplinary action by the Department Head. In the absence of such disciplinary action, any employee who absents himself for three or more continuous days without authorized leave shall be deemed to have resigned. Such absence may be covered, however, by the Department Head by a subsequent grant of leave with or without pay where extenuating circumstances are found to have existed.
M. Repeated violations of State laws or City ordinances relating to the operation of a motor vehicle or a bus.
N. The employee has failed to maintain a satisfactory attendance record whereby a pattern of excessive sick leave and unexcused leaves of absence has been established.
O. Intentionally falsifying and/or theft of official records and/or statement/property.
Section 2. The Director of Public Works/Utilities may suspend or discharge any employee for cause or suspend any employee for investigation of any accident, incident, or other occurrence after having orally informed such employee, and then confirmed in writing, the reason(s) for such suspension or discharge, the duration of the suspension, and/or the effective date of the discharge. Except as otherwise provided in Section 3 below, any employee who has been so suspended or discharged shall have the right to have his case taken up in accordance with the procedures hereinafter provided in Article 8. If it is found during Steps 1 or 2 of the grievance procedure that there was not cause for the suspension or discharge, such employee shall be reinstated and paid for all time lost through such suspension or discharge at his regular straight time hourly rate of pay, or paid such other amount as may appear to be just. Any suspension or discharge arising from the provisions of Article 31 need not be done in writing.
Section 3. If an employee is charged with an offense involving the mishandling of fares or the misappropriation of City funds or property, intentional falsification or theft of official records or statements, immorality or drunkenness, neither such charge nor the discipline meted out in connection therewith shall be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedures provided for in this Agreement unless the grievance or demand for arbitration in such cases be accompanied by a document signed by the employee involved authorizing the City to disclose any and all facts and information pertaining to the case and releasing the City from any and all liability therefor.
Section 4. When an employee is notified to come to the office to explain the reason or reasons for any complaint, incident or accident, the employee shall make himself available with representation, if so desired, within forty-eight (48) hours (Saturday, Sunday, holidays, days off excluded). The record of complaint and employee explanation will be made a part of the personnel record only after such meeting.
Section 5. In considering disciplinary action, Management will take into account the twelve calendar months prior to the month in which the incident occurred in the employee's record.
Section 6. Written reprimands and rebuttals or explanations thereof shall be removed from an employee's personnel file, including such files within a Department, one (1) year after the filing. All reprimands and rebuttals or explanations will be forwarded to the Personnel Department for inclusion into the employee's permanent record.
Section 7. No discussion or investigation of anything involving possible disciplinary action shall be over the system radio. Telephone investigations will be for information purposes only and at the option of the employee; however, if the employee is called, the employee will be paid for the actual time spent on the telephone.
Section 8. The Union shall receive a written notice of all pre-disciplinary hearings or meetings to be held. This notice shall be provided to the Union at least twenty-four
Employees 8.1 The Parties acknowledge that the Employees' contracts of employment shall automatically transfer to the Purchaser pursuant to the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (as amended) (the “Regulations”). Additionally, the Seller acknowledges that (i) no employee of the Purchaser has an employment agreement; and (ii) no employee of the Seller shall be granted an employment agreement.
8.2 The Purchaser shall be responsible for and undertakes to indemnify and keep the Seller indemnified from and against all accrued holiday pay entitlements and accrued holiday entitlements of the Employees which have accrued prior to the Closing Date.
8.3 Unless actions for the claim(s) arise before the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall have no recourse against the Seller in respect of any claim made by or in relation to the Employees whether by virtue of the assumption of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981, the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 or arising under contract, statute, regulation, directive or otherwise.
8.4 Beginning on the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of all wages and salaries due, any related pay-as-you-earn, National Insurance or deductions in respect of the Employees.
8.5 The Seller undertakes to indemnify and keep the Purchaser indemnified from and against all liabilities, obligations, costs, claims and demands arising from or in respect of any of the Employees, insofar as and to the extent that the same was caused by any act or omission by the Seller prior to the Closing Date.
8.6 All the obligations of the Seller under or in connection with the contracts of employment of the Employees arising in respect of any event or period on or prior to the Closing Date shall be performed and discharged by the Seller and the Seller shall indemnify the Purchaser from and against any and all actions, proceedings, costs, claims, expenses, demands, damages, awards (whether of compensation or otherwise), fines, penalties, judgements, order and liabilities whatsoever (including, without limitation, national insurance and pension entitlements and any liability to pay accrued holiday pay) which:
8.6.1 relate to or arise out of or in connection with the employment or dismissal of any of the Employees or any other employee by the Seller or any other person or any act or omission by the Seller or any associate of the Seller or any other event occurring on or prior to the Closing Date for which the Purchaser is liable by reason of the operation of the Regulations or other measure having the force of law; or
8.6.2 (whether or not in respect of a period before or after the Closing Date) relate to any contract of employment of any employee of the Seller or any other person (other than any of the Employees) in respect of which the Purchaser is liable as a result of the Regulations or Directive 77/187 of the Council of European Communities or the termination of any such contract (and in this connection the Purchaser shall terminate such contacts of employment promptly on becoming aware of the same); or
8.6.3 arise from any failure by the Seller to comply with its obligations made or contemplated by the Regulations.
8.7 The Seller undertakes to authorise and hereby authorises each of the Employees to disclose to the Purchaser after the Closing Date all information in his or her possession relating to the Business notwithstanding any term of his or her employment with the Seller (whether express or implied) which would otherwise preclude him or her from so doing.
8.8 Should any liabilities, obligations, costs, claims and demands arising from or in respect of any of the Employees, insofar as and to the extent that the same was caused by any act or omission by the Seller prior to the Closing Date (the “Employee Liabilities”), arise on or after the Closing Date, the Employee Liabilities shall be subject to the Offset defined in Section 3.1.
Nature of Employment (a) The Company hereby agrees to continue to employ Executive as a full-time employee in the position of President, and Executive accepts such continued employment, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, for the Term of this Agreement (as defined in Section 2 below). Throughout the Term, Executive will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company (the “CEO”) and will perform and discharge well and faithfully such duties and functions consistent with his position as President as may be assigned to him from time to time by the CEO in his discretion in connection with the conduct of the Company’s business, including with respect to any business conducted by any affiliate of the Company (including any subsidiaries, parents, or other enterprises under common ownership or control with the Company) (each a “Related Entity”). If Executive is elected or appointed an officer or director of the Company, or any other Related Entity, during the period of Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive will serve in such capacity without additional compensation.
(b) During the period of Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive: (i) will devote 100% of his employment energies, interests, abilities and time to the performance of his duties and shall not, without the written consent of the CEO, render to others any service of any kind for compensation; (ii) will not render services to any business activity that is directly or indirectly competitive with any business conducted by the Company or any Related Entity; (iii) will observe and carry out such reasonable rules, regulations, policies, directions and restrictions as may be established from time to time by the Board or the board of directors of any Related Entity, including but not limited to the published standard policies, practices and procedures of the Company as in effect from time to time as applied to other senior executives of the Company; and (iv) do such reasonable traveling as may be required in connection with the performance of such duties and responsibilities consistent with such traveling requirements prior to the execution of this Agreement.
(c) Executive may serve on corporate, civic and/or charitable boards with the consent of the Board and the CEO, provided that the Board or the CEO may require Executive to resign any or all such board seats if it or he reasonably believes such board participation conflicts with Executive’s role with the Company or is otherwise too time-consuming or distracting to Executive.
(d) Executive acknowledges that this Agreement contains non-competition and non-disclosure of proprietary information provisions, and Executive agrees to comply with these provisions. Executive understands that entering into and complying with these provisions is a condition to Executive’s continued employment and that failure to comply with the terms and conditions of these provisions may result in termination “for cause” under this Agreement and in other damages to the Company.
List of Employees The Union shall be provided quarterly via compact disc a current list of names, employee numbers, classifications, addresses, home telephone numbers, work locations, hourly rate, status (regular, substitute, temporary) and social security numbers of all employees covered by this Agreement. This list will also include all employees newly hired into the bargaining unit during the preceding quarter and all bargaining unit employees who have separated from the District during the preceding quarter.
Notification of Employees A. Written notice of layoff shall be given to an employee or sent by mail to the last known mailing address at least fourteen (14) calendar days prior to the effective date of the layoff. Notices of layoff shall be served on employees personally at work whenever practicable.
B. It is the intent of the parties that the number of layoff notices initially issued shall be limited to the number of positions by which the work force is intended to be reduced. Additional notices shall be issued as other employees become subject to layoff as a result of employees exercising reduction rights under Section 5.
C. The notice of layoff shall include the reason for the layoff, the proposed effective date of the layoff, the employee's hire date, the employee's layoff points, a list of classes in the employee's occupational series within the layoff unit, the employee's rights under Sections 5. and 6. and the right of the employee to advise the County of any objection to the content of the layoff notice prior to the proposed effective date of the layoff.
PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES Any Employee who in good faith reports a suspected or actual violation of law, regulation, University policy or procedure, or ethical or professional standards, will be protected from retaliation as a result of such reporting, regardless of whether or not, after investigation, a violation is found to have occurred.
Hiring of Employees Company and Shareholders shall cooperate with all requests made by Pentegra for the purpose of allowing Pentegra to hire those non-dentist employees of Company designated by Pentegra, such employment to be effective as of the Closing Date. Notwithstanding the above, Company and Shareholders shall remain liable under any Company Plans for any claims incurred by any employees or their spouses or dependents, and for all compensation, bonuses, benefits and other such items and other liabilities related to Company's employees incurred by Company prior to the Closing Date.
CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES Section 1. A full-time employee shall be deemed to be any employee regularly scheduled to work forty (40) hours per week. A regular employee is one whose employment is reasonably expected to continue for longer than fifteen (15) months.
Section 2. A part-time employee shall be deemed to be any employee regularly scheduled to work less than forty (40) hours per week.
Section 3. The Company shall have the right to reduce employee classifications from full-time to part-time or to increase employee classifications from part-time to full-time. Should the Company deem it appropriate to reclassify full-time employees to part-time employees, it will seek volunteers from the affected group and then force in reverse order of seniority.
Section 4. A temporary employee is one who is engaged for a specific project or a limited period, with the definite understanding that his/her employment is to terminate upon completion of the project or at the end of the period, and whose employment is expected to continue for more than three (3) consecutive weeks, but not more than fifteen (15) months. The termination of the employment of such temporary employees shall not be subject to the grievance or arbitration provisions of this Agreement.
Section 5. Agency workers and independent contractors shall not be deemed to be employees of the Company and, as such, shall not be covered by any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement.
Scope of Employment (a) During the Employment, Executive will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. In that connection, Executive will (i) devote his full-time attention and energies to the business of the Company and will diligently and to the best of his ability perform all duties incident to his employment hereunder; (ii) use his best efforts to promote the interests and goodwill of the Company; and (iii) perform such other duties commensurate with his office as the Board of Directors of the Company may from time-to-time assign to him.
(b) Section 2(a) shall not be construed as preventing Executive from (i) serving on corporate, civic or charitable boards or committees, or (ii) making investments in other businesses or enterprises; provided that in no event shall any such service, business activity or investment require the provision of substantial services by Executive to the operations or the affairs of such businesses or enterprises such that the provision thereof would interfere in any respect with the performance of Executive's duties hereunder; and subject to Section 6.
Compensation of Employees Compensate its employees for services rendered at an hourly rate at least equal to the minimum hourly rate prescribed by any applicable federal or state law or regulation.
