Negotiation Time. Unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties, no more than six (6) employees on the Union negotiation’s team will be granted leave without loss of salary to participate in negotiation sessions with the Employer including necessary travel time to and from bargaining sessions, including caucuses, occurring during a normal work shift. Immediate supervisors must be informed of and approve such leaves through the usual leave practices or procedures. Such leaves shall not be unreasonably denied.
Negotiation Time. Negotiations shall be carried on at times mutually agreed upon and essentially outside of the employee’s regular working period.
Negotiation Time. Negotiations shall be carried on at times mutually agreed upon and essentially outside of the teacher's regular working period.
Negotiation Time. The Employer agrees to provide unlimited paid negotiation time for two (2) designated Union members only.
Negotiation Time. Employee officers and/or stewards of the Association shall be allowed reasonable release time without loss of pay for the purposes of meetings with the Employer for collective bargaining, grievances, or disciplinary hearings, or such other le- gitimate Association activities. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to require employees to receive compensation from the Employer for representation activities oc- curring outside of the employee’s regularly scheduled work hours or for such time to be counted as time worked for overtime of flex-time calculation. Except as provided for in this Agreement or as provided by law, County equipment and work hours shall not be used by officers, employees or business representatives for solicitation of Association membership, collection or checking of dues, Association meetings, or other activities re- lating to the internal business of the Association.
4.5.1 Employee Association representatives shall be allowed one (1) hour of re- lease time preceding or following meetings with the Employer for preparation/de- briefing activities.
4.5.2 Release time for arbitration or PERC hearings shall be limited to the grievant/appellant, Association witnesses, and one (1) Association officer. Asso- ciation witnesses shall be allowed to attend for as long as their presence is required in relation to their testimony.
Negotiation Time. Members of the Union's bargaining committee, up to a maximum of five (5) employees, shall be excused from duty and shall suffer no loss of pay for time spent in collective bargaining negotiations with the City. An officer who is otherwise scheduled to report for work during the twenty-four (24) hour period in which a negotiation session is scheduled shall be allowed to attend that session and said negotiation session shall be considered his regular duty day. Members of the Union’s bargaining committee shall be allowed to flex their schedule as a provision for participation in the negotiation sessions for the Collective Bargaining Agreement, so long as it does not create overtime or violate the Department’s “minimum staffing” general order. In the event that such session is less than two (2) hours in duration, the employee will report for assigned shifts for the balance of their regularly scheduled shift.
Negotiation Time. Members of the Union negotiating team, who are City employees, will be allowed to attend negotiation sessions during regularly scheduled duty hours. The time of each City employee spent on attendance at negotiation sessions during their regularly scheduled duty hours shall be compensated by the City at his regular hourly rate, subject to the following limitations:
A. Total compensation paid to the Union negotiation team will not exceed 300 hours for all members combined.
B. No compensation will be paid for the time spent preparing for negotiations, nor will this preparation be done by any employee during his regularly scheduled duty hours. Any additional time spent attending negotiations by the employee during his regularly scheduled duty hours may be taken as vacation, compensatory leave, personal leave, or time off without pay.
Negotiation Time. The duly designated members of the Association’s bargaining team, if on regularly scheduled duty during a joint scheduled bargaining session shall be allowed to attend that bargaining session, subject to the critical staffing needs of the Sheriff’s Office determined by the Sheriff’s Office management or any affected Constable’s Office.
Negotiation Time. The union xxxxxxx shall be allowed up to sixteen (16) hours per contract year with pay to participate in contract negotiations when in mediation, and/or grievance meetings and grievance arbitration scheduled during the employee’s work hours. Any time in excess of sixteen (16) hours per contract year can be made up later.
Negotiation Time
