Common use of Regular Wages Clause in Contracts

Regular Wages. Effective the first day of the month following ratification by both parties, all bargaining unit classifications will receive a 2.5% COLA. Effective January 1, 2021, all bargaining unit classifications shall be paid on an hourly basis for all hours worked or taken as leave time. Effective the first day of the month following ratification by both parties, or January 1, 2021, whichever is later, all bargaining unit classifications will receive a 2.0% COLA. Effective July 1, 2021, all bargaining unit classifications will receive a 1.0% COLA. Furloughs will be required during 2021. Furlough hours are leave without pay and accrued leave cannot be used to offset furlough hours. Full time employees will be required to furlough a total of 96 hours. Part time, Seasonal and Regular Non-benefited (RNB) employees will be furloughed an equivalent number of hours based on their budgeted FTE. Furloughs will be taken at the rate of 24 hours per quarter (or their part time equivalent). Furloughs will be taken in four-hour increments (4,8,12) and will be scheduled in coordination with the employee’s supervisor to ensure business needs continue to be met. Part time employees with less than 4 hours of furlough increments, shall take the remaining time in one instance. (E.g. .6 FTE employee must take 14.4 furlough hours per quarter; once the employee has taken three four-hour blocks, they must then take the remaining 2.4 hours in one instance.) The City reserves the right to discontinue furloughs if City finances allow. The furlough schedule above ensures employees will maintain health and leave benefits through the furlough period, unless furlough leave is combined with other LWOP which may make an employee ineligible for those benefits. Before asking to combine furlough days with other types of Leave Without Pay, the employee should communicate carefully with Human Resources to understand possible impacts to City benefits. Employees working as operators in the water and wastewater treatment plants and employees working in Municipal Court will not be subject to furlough. Layoffs will be the option of last resort after first doing the following things in order: 1. Continue to freeze vacancies 2. Reduce through attrition 3. Eliminate Temporary workers unless otherwise agreed with the Union 4. Explore City Closure Days 5. Request additional furloughs through impact bargaining 6. Layoffs is the last resort after meet and confer with the Union Effective two pay periods after ratification by both parties, employees will receive a signing bonus as outlined below: Full Time $950 Part Time $475 Regular Non-Benefited $300 Returning 8/9 month Seasonal $650 Returning 6 month Seasonal $435; 2/3 of 9-month amount Returning 3/4 month Seasonal $290; 4/9 of the 9-month amount Employees must be on the payroll at the time of ratification to be eligible to receive the signing bonus. On a non-precedent setting basis, employees who are on payroll at the time of ratification but who separate employment before the bonus is paid, will still be eligible for the signing bonus. All Seasonal employees will receive the signing bonus upon their return to the 2021 season even if they are not on the payroll at time of ratification.