V acation Donation for Negotiations. Employees will be able to donate vacation hours to a vacation donation pool for use by the Union’s negotiating team during negotiations as follows:
a. All members of the Union’s bargaining unit may donate earned vacation/annual leave hours to a common pool, out of which members of the Union’s negotiating team will be able to draw at their regular rate of pay to make up for wages lost through participation in bargaining sessions. Hours paid from the vacation pool will be paid as vacation time and will accrue benefits for the recipients.
b. Management will collect the donated vacation hours into the pool, and disburse them as additional hours to the normal paychecks received by negotiating team members. This process will be separate from the timecard-payroll online system, and will rely on electronic Excel spreadsheets; no cost center will be needed for the purpose. After each payout from the pool, HR will provide to the Union an accounting of the hours disbursed and the hours remaining in the pool, including the balance remaining of each donor’s pledged hours.
c. Only those donated hours authorized by the Union for payouts will be deducted from donors’ vacation banks. At the end of the bargaining process, any vacation hours pledged by a donor which are not paid out to cover lost wages will remain in that donor’s vacation bank.
d. The Union will be responsible for providing management the following:
(i) A signed authorization from all employee donors, modeled on the Swedish/Xxxxxxx Vacation/Annual Leave Donation form language, with the additional clarification that the donor is entering an agreement with the Union and also authorizing Swedish/Xxxxxxx to debit the donated hours from the RN’s vacation bank. The authorizing language on the Union’s petition reads as follows: By signing this petition, I agree with our union SEIU Healthcare 1199NW to donate no less than four*(4) vacation hours to help our employee negotiators with missed shifts as a result of negotiations and I authorize Swedish/Xxxxxxx to deduct these hours from my vacation bank. * Hours not needed by employee negotiators will not be charged. Donors’ names will be both printed and signed. A copy of the authorizing signatures will be provided to the Swedish/Xxxxxxx on numbered signature pages and numbered lines for ease of verification.
(ii) An Excel spreadsheet of all donors, the page and line number of their signatures, employee identification numbers, and the number of hours authorized for dona...
