Published: January 25, 2022

Your bargaining team has come to a tentative agreement (TA)! 

  • Article 4—Hours of Work
    • Section 3: Housekeeping (removed reference to 7.5 hour workdays not currently in use)
    • Section 6: guarantees that employee requests to flex normal work hours within the work week will not be arbitrarily denied.
  • Article 6—Holidays
    •  Section 1: Added Juneteenth as annual paid holiday.
  • Article 7—Vacation Leave
    • Section 1: Employees begin accruing vacation from the first day of employment (rather than after six months). Employees are able to use accrued vacation after six months of employment.
    • Section 5: changed the amount of vacation that can be cashed out from “up to five (5) working days” of vacation to “forty (40) hours” of vacation.
    • Section 7: Changed language to allow for employees working non-standard shift lengths (9 hours, for example) to schedule comp credit leave for the total duration of their shift length.
  • Article 10—Health and Welfare
    • Section 4: The county will contribute $1,621 per employee per month for health, dental and vision benefits in 2023, and $1646 per employee per month in 2024.
  • Article 11—Wage Adjustment
    • Section 1: housekeeping changes to reflect current law and practice
    • Section 3: 5% cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2022, and 5% cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2023.
    • Section 14: New language. Adds 5% differential for eligible employees assigned to crisis duties as co-responders with law enforcement in a community setting.
  • Article 14—Travel Allowances
    • Section 3: Reimbursements of lodging, meal, and other related transportation expenses shall be on an actual cost basis “up to the IRS Per Diem rate.
  • Article 15—Health and Safety Regulations
    • Current Contract Language, but as part of the agreement the county has committed in writing to update the boot policy to include MCEA employees in the Juvenile Department
  • Article 17—General Provisions
    • Section 17: county agrees they “will not attempt to influence any employee to resign from or decline to obtain membership in the union.”
  • Article 20—Discipline and Discharge
    • Section 5: New section guaranteeing that “any disciplinary action […] will be documented in writing. A copy of the documentation will be provided to the employee and to the MCEA Union President, Chief Steward, and the SEIU Organizer.”
  • Article 21—Grievance and Arbitration Procedure
    • Section 1: Housekeeping change—defines “working days” in grievance timeline as weekdays that are not holidays
    • Section 2: Housekeeping changes—clarification of language
  • Article 24—Layoff
    • Section 1: Housekeeping change
  • Article 26—Trial Service Period
    • Section 1: housekeeping change; defines ‘initial trial service’ as trial service served upon most recent date of hire and last for six months
    • Section 2: housekeeping change
  • Article 33—Life and Termination of Agreement
    • Sections 1 & 2: Updates term of agreement to expire June 30, 2024
  • Letter of Agreement: Floater Position
    • Updated effective dates
  • Letter of Agreement: Journeyman’s Card or Trades License
    • Updated effective dates
  • Letter of Agreement: Oracle Pay Incentive
    • Updated effective dates
  • Letter of Agreement: Sick Leave Conversion
    • Updated effective dates
  • Letter of Agreement: Standby Pay
    • Updated effective dates
  • Letter of Agreement: Workload Prioritization
    • New Letter of Agreement
      • Gives employees the right to request assistance from immediate supervisor in “establishing or adjusting work priorities.” The supervisor must respond to such requests in a timely manner.

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