Common use of Union Representation at Disciplinary Action Clause in Contracts

Union Representation at Disciplinary Action. A. At any meeting between a representative of the City and an employee in which discipline (including warnings which are to be recorded in the personnel file, suspensions, demotions, or discharge) is to be announced, the employee may select any Union representative to be present if the employee so requests. Pay for Union representation under this section shall be at the employee’s basic hourly rate and only for actual time spent within his normal daily work schedule. B. The City shall not hold a conference or interview with an employee in connection with the imposition of discipline or the issuance of a warning which is to be entered in the employee’s personnel file, unless the City allows the employee to be represented at the conference by the department xxxxxxx or alternate, and shall afford the employee, at the employee’s or the Union xxxxxxx’x request, the opportunity to consult privately with the xxxxxxx before the commencement of the meeting.