Common use of Union Time Pool Clause in Contracts

Union Time Pool. (a) The City shall make available eighty (80) hours per fiscal year as Union Time Pool leave that employees holding the Union elected positions of President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary may use, as prescribed in this Agreement, to attend local and state SGEU meetings, SGEU conferences and/or Florida legislative sessions. (b) The Union President shall provide written notice to the City via the Human Resources Director of the employees holding these four (4) elected positions to confirm the four (4) employees who may be eligible to use this Union Time Pool leave. (c) At the end of each fiscal year, unused Union Time Pool leave hours may be rolled over for use during the next fiscal year, provided the amount of hours in the Union Time Pool shall never exceed one hundred twenty (120) hours. Any hours over this one hundred twenty (120) hour cap shall be forfeited. (d) Use of Union Time Pool leave shall be subject to the following: 1. A written request to use Union Time Pool leave shall be submitted to the Department Director and the Human Resources Director (or designees) at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the requested time off; and 2. Sufficient staffing must be available to cover existing scheduled assignments and no overtime cost shall result if the leave request is approved. The determination as to whether sufficient staffing is available as well as whether overtime would result will be made by the Department Director (or a designee) in his/her sole and exclusive discretion, and 3. Leave to attend any SGEU meeting/conference will be limited to a maximum of two (2) persons in any one instance and shall not to exceed eight (8) hours per person; and 4. The City retains the right to restrict the use of this leave when in the opinion of the City, an unusual and/or emergency condition exists or is imminent and that such time off from work assignments could create a danger to public safety.

Union Time Pool. (a) The Effective the first full pay period on or after October 1, 2016, the City shall make made available eighty forty (8040) hours per fiscal year as Union Time Pool leave that employees holding the Union elected positions of President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary may use, as prescribed in this Agreement, to attend local and state SGEU meetings, SGEU conferences and/or Florida legislative sessions. Effective at the start of the first full pay period after ratification of this 2017-2020 Agreement by the City Commission, the annual Union Time Pool hours made available by the City shall be increased to eighty (80) hours per fiscal year. (b) The Union President shall provide written notice to the City via the Human Resources Director of the employees holding these four (4) elected positions to confirm the four (4) employees who may be eligible to use this Union Time Pool leave. (c) At the end of each fiscal year, unused Union Time Pool leave hours may be rolled over for use during the next fiscal year, provided the amount of hours in the Union Time Pool shall never exceed one hundred twenty (120) hours. Any hours over this one hundred twenty (120) hour cap shall be forfeited. (d) Use of Union Time Pool leave shall be subject to the following: 1. A written request to use Union Time Pool leave shall be submitted to the Department Director and the Human Resources Director (or designees) at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the requested time off; and 2. Sufficient staffing must be available to cover existing scheduled assignments and no overtime cost shall result if the leave request is approved. The determination as to whether sufficient staffing is available as well as whether overtime would result will be made by the Department Director (or a designee) in his/her sole and exclusive discretion, and 3. Leave to attend any SGEU meeting/conference will be limited to a maximum of two (2) persons in any one instance and shall not to exceed eight (8) hours per person; and 4. The City retains the right to restrict the use of this leave when in the opinion of the City, an unusual and/or emergency condition exists or is imminent and that such time off from work assignments could create a danger to public safety.