Dues Deductions Dues deductions, once initiated, shall continue until the authorization is revoked in writing by the employee. For the administrative convenience of the City and the Union, an employee may only revoke a dues authorization by delivering the notice of revocation to the Controller during the two-week period prior to the expiration of this Agreement. The revocation notice shall be delivered to the Controller either in person at the Controller's office or by depositing it in the U.S. Mail addressed to the Payroll/Personnel Services Division, Office of the Controller, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Room 235, San Francisco, CA 94103-0948; Attention: Dues Deduction. The City shall deliver a copy of the notices of revocation of dues deductions authorizations to the Union within two (2) weeks of receipt.
Dues Deduction 1. The DTU will indemnify, defend, and hold the employer harmless against any claim made and against any suit instituted against the Employer on account of any check-off of union dues.
2. Upon receipt of a written authorization from an employee covered by this agreement, the Employer will deduct from the employee's pay the amount owed to the DTU by such employee for dues and its assessments.
3. It is understood that this provision will provide for 22 or 26 deductions per year for all covered employees as outlined in Appendix D. The Employer will remit to the DTU such sums as deductions are made to be implemented when the ACH system is functioning. There will be a one month trial transfer period. An electronic copy of the deduction will be provided to the DTU within five working days. Changes in the DTU membership dues rate will be certified to the Employer in writing over the signature of the authorized officer or officers of the DTU and shall be done at least 30 days in advance of the effective date of such change. The Employer's remittance will be deemed correct if the DTU does not give written notice to the Employer within thirty (30) calendar days after a remittance is received of its belief, with reason(s) stated therefore, that the remittance is incorrect.
4. No deduction of dues shall be made from the pay of any employee for any payroll period in which the employee's net earnings for that payroll period, after deductions, are less than the amount of dues to be checked off.
5. An employee may at any time revoke, in writing her/his authorization for dues deductions. Written requests received by the 20th day of the month will be effective no earlier than the first payday and no later than the second payday of the following month.
6. Any employee who has payroll deductions to DTU for membership dues at the time of any unpaid leave shall have such dues deductions reinstated when she/he returns from leave, unless canceled by the employee in writing.
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:
(A) Deductions from a salaried employee's salary may be made for any workweek in which the salaried employee performs no work.
(B) Deductions from a salaried employee's salary may be made when the employee absents himself from work for a full day or days for personal reasons, other than sickness or accident. This provision shall not prevent appropriate deductions from being made from any employee's vacation leave balance pursuant to Article 11 of this Agreement for absences of less than a day for personal reasons, other than sickness or accident.
(C) Deductions from an employee's salary may be made when a salaried employee absents himself from work for a day (or days) for sickness or accident disability in accordance with the provisions of Articles 13 and 14 of this Agreement.
(D) Deduction in a salaried employee's salary may be made for the initial or terminal week of the salaried employee if the salaried employee fails to work the entire workweek.
Union Deductions All employees who are covered by the certification with the Union shall, as a condition of continuing employment, authorize a deduction from their pay cheques of the amount of the dues, levies and assessments payable to the Union by a member of the Union. The Employer shall provide a copy of the authorization form, which has been forwarded by the Union, to each new employee. Upon receipt of written notice from the Union, the Employer shall terminate the services of any employee who does not authorize the deduction as above. The Employer agrees to deduct the amount of the Union dues, levies and assessments payable to the Union by an employee in the Union’s bargaining unit. The Union shall inform the Employer in writing of the amount to be deducted from each employee. The Union shall advise the Employer in writing sixty (60) calendar days in advance of any change in the amount to be deducted. The Employer shall remit such dues, levies and assessments to the Union within twenty-eight (28) calendar days from the date of deduction, together with a written statement containing the names of the employees for whom the deductions were made and the amount of each deduction. The Employer shall supply each employee, without charge, a receipt for income tax purposes shown on the T4 slip in the amount of the deductions paid to the Union by the employee in the previous year. Such receipts shall be provided to the employee prior to March 1 of the succeeding year. Deductions for levies and assessments shall be a percentage of wages.
LOCAL AND BCTF DUES DEDUCTION 1. The employer agrees to deduct from the salary of each employee covered by this Collective Agreement an amount equal to the fees of the BCTF according to the scale established pursuant to its constitution and by-laws, inclusive of the fees of the local in the district, according to the scale established pursuant to its constitution and by-laws, and shall remit the same to the BCTF and the local respectively. The employer further agrees to deduct levies of the BCTF or of the local established in accordance with their constitutions and by-laws, and remit the same to the appropriate body.
2. At the time of hiring, the employer shall require all new employees to complete and sign the BCTF and Local application for membership and assignment of fees form. The BCTF agrees to supply the appropriate forms. Completed forms shall be forwarded to the local in a time and manner consistent with the Previous Local Agreement or the existing practice of the parties.
3. The employer will remit the BCTF fees and levies by direct electronic transfer from the district office where that is in place, or through inter-bank electronic transfer. The transfer of funds to the BCTF will be remitted by the 15th of the month following the deduction.
4. The form and timing of the remittance of local fees and levies shall remain as they are at present unless they are changed by mutual agreement between the local and the employer.
5. The employer shall provide to the BCTF and the local at the time of remittance an account of the fees and levies, including a list of employees and amounts paid.
