Common use of Telephone Expenses Clause in Contracts

Telephone Expenses. 1. The State shall pay nine dollars ($9.00) of the basic monthly charge when an employee is specifically required by the State to have a telephone in his or her residence, unless the telephone is provided by the State, whether as a cell phone or other device with telephonic capability that functions to the State’s satisfaction at the member’s residence. Except in the case of Department of Transportation crew supervisors which is addressed in Section I, these payments shall be made on a semiannual basis in January and July and shall be prorated for those employees who become eligible or terminate State service between the semiannual payments. 2. The State shall pay all employees' authorized telephone toll charges. In lieu of submitting copies of their personal telephone toll charge statements, employees may elect to submit an itemized accounting of such calls on a regular State voucher. 3. The State shall issue telephone credit cards as needed on a case by case basis. 4. Employees on snow removal crews in the Department of Transportation, at institutions and in the Department of Defense and Veterans Services will be permitted, when they are working overtime, to make a call home from garages or facilities having telephones. Toll calls from such telephones will be at the State's expense. Crews will be allowed to stop en route as schedules permit to make calls for this purpose at their own expense. 5. An employee away from home overnight on the business of the State shall have the right to one (1) five (5) minute telephone call per night within or to the State of Maine at the State's expense. When an employee is away from home overnight for two (2) or more continuous nights, that employee may aggregate the above five (5) minute period into one (1) or more telephone calls as long as the total time used does not exceed the total time allowed. 6. An employee who reports to work and then is required to work unscheduled overtime shall have the right to one (1) five (5) minute telephone call to notify a member of his/her household.