Vehicle Maintenance Mechanics. If, due to shortage of work or funds, or change in the organization, it becomes necessary to lay off any employees, those with the shortest period of continuous service shall be laid off first. Recall shall be in the order of last off, first on.
Vehicle Maintenance Mechanics. In order to have employees available to respond to winter conditions on weekends and nights, the Division shall establish a voluntary stand-by list. Mechanics shall voluntarily sign up on the list for a weekend and/or a holiday during the winter season. When more than one person signs up to be on stand-by for a weekend and/or holiday, the most senior person shall receive the stand-by pay. Employees actually placed in weekend stand-by status shall be compensated at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per hour for each twenty-four hour period of the weekend. The City agrees to provide a cellular phone or pager to employees who are on stand-by.
Vehicle Maintenance Mechanics. The Employer agrees to furnish a locker for each employee. Mechanics having completed one (1) year of service shall be eligible to receive a tool allowance of $800.00 for fiscal year FY16. The tool allowance shall increase by $15 each year of the contract through FY19. Employees may carry over up to $2,445.00 of their tool allowance during the first three years of the contract, but cannot accumulate more than $1,675.00 in the last year of the contract. Mechanics will be allowed to purchase tools through City approved vendors pursuant to purchase order or be reimbursed for the purchase of tools for performance of work-related duties and solely to perform repairs on City vehicles and equipment only up to the amount of this allowance, from a vendor by submitting receipts for approval by the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent as being work-related purchases by April 30 of each fiscal year. The employee has the responsibility to establish that the purchase is for a work-related tool. Tool vendors shall be permitted to visit the work site during regular working hours, provided the visits shall be limited to a reasonable amount of time needed to complete transactions involving the purchase and use of tools. The City will provide City self-insurance or purchase tool loss insurance for the mechanics up to the amount of $30,000 with a $250.00 deductible per employee per incident. The loss within the deductible range is to be paid by the mechanic. Employees will be required to provide an itemized list and cost of tool inventory to be eligible to claim the replacement value. Employees receiving a tool allowance shall have available on demand at the Vehicle Maintenance facility all tools purchased with tool allowance for use to perform repairs on City vehicles and equipment.
