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This agreement represents the entire and integrated agreement between the City and the Union and supercedes all prior representations and agreements, whether written er oral. General Provisions SECTION 1.0: DEFINITIONS 1.1 City -the City of Cupertino, a municipal corporation - 1.2 Union -Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO 1.3 Emulovee -All employees whose positions are contained in the Public Works Unit recognized pursuan.t to Section 2. 52. 4 70 of the Cupertino Municipal Code. SECTION 2.0: UNION RECOGNITION Pursuant to Section 2.52.480 of the City Code and applicable State law, the Union is recognized by the City as majority representative of the employees within the Public Works Unit consisting of the following classifications as well as any new classifications which may be appropriate for this unit as determined by the Municipal Employees Relations Officer: Utility Worker Maintenance Worker I Water Utility Worker I Maintenance Worker II Water Utility Worker II Maintenance Worker III Street Sweeper Operator Equipment Mechanic - 1 - SECTION 3.0: ~ON-DISCRI~INATION In accordance with the City of Cupertino Affirmative Action Plan, all employees shall have equal opportunity in employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or age. SECTION 4.0: REPRESENTATION RIGHTS 4.1 The City and Union shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce or discriminate against employees of the City because of their exercise of representation right under Section 3502 of the Government Code. 4.2 Business Representatives of the Union may have access to any Employee or Employees presenting a grievance and Employees have the right to have the Union Business Representative represent him or her at all stages of disciplinary action. 4.3 The Union may select one (1) Employee for each location where Employees covered by this Memorandum are normally assigned as Union Steward. 4.4 In addition to his regularly assigned work, the Union Steward shall be permitted reasonable time during working hours to notify the Business Representative through the most rapid means appropriate and available of any alleged violations of this Memorandum. Employees are authorized to contact their Union Steward during working hours to report an alleged grievance or violation of this Memorandum. 4.5 The City agrees to deduct on a biweekly basis the monthly Union membership dues from the earned wages of each employee within the bargaining unit upon receipt of signed authorization to do so from each employee con- cerned. Union agrees to provide a monthly list of active membership desiring dues deductions to the City. Terminations and other personnel changes affect- ing dues payment will be provided Union by the City. SECTION 5.0: E.i."'1PLOYEE RIGHTS Employees of the City shall have the right to form, join and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations including but not limited to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. Employees of the City also shall have the right to refuse to join or participate in the activities of employee organizations and shall have the right to represent themselves individually in their employment relations with the City. No employee shall be interfered with, intimidated, ~estrained, coerced or discri~inated against because of his exercise of these rights. - 2 - SECTION 6.0: CITY RIGHTS The rights of the City include, but are not limited to, the exclusive right to determine the mission of its constituent departments, commissions and boards; set standards of service; determine the procedures and standards of selection for employment and promotion; direct its employees; take disci- plinary action; relieve its employees from duty because of lack of work or for other legitimate reasons; maintain the efficiency of governmental operations; determine the content of job classifications; take all necessary actions to carry out its mission in emergencies; and exercise complete control and discretion over its organization and the technology of performing its work. SECTION 7.0: NOTIFICATION OF PROPOSED CHANGE City agrees to serve writt~n notice upon the Union of any intent to change or alter any ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation affecting the recognized employee organization on matters relating to the scope of repre- sentation. Upon receipt of the written notification of intended change, the parties will meet at a date not less than fifteen (15) days following receipt of intent. After notification, the parties may mutually agree that the Meet and Confer provisions are satisfied by the written notice. In cases of emergencies when the City determines that an ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation must be adopted immediately without prior notice or meeting with the Union, the City shall provide such notice and opportunity to meet at the earliest practical time following the adoption of such ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation consistent with this agreement. SECTION 8.0: COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES 8.1 Wage Rate Schedules The City agrees to increase rates of pay for each classification covered by this agreement by an amount as may be permitted by the State but not to exceed a 1.736% in the ranges and steps of the appropriate Schedule of Pay Grades as reflected in Attachment "A" to this agreement. In the absence of a State requirement to the contrary, the effective date for such salary increase will be July 1, 1978. 8.2 Out-of-Class Wage Rates Temporary assignment for a continuous eight hour period to a position assigned to a classification in a higher pay grade shall be compensated at the Step 1 rate of the higher classification, or at a rate five per cent - 3 - greater than that of the regular position, whichever is greater, for the number of hours so assigned. No increase in the.wage rates shall apply in instances of Maintenance Worker I positions temporarily assigned to positions of Maintenance Worker II classification. 8.3 Standby Compensation Employees who are ·required to be available during their off-shift hours for possible recall for emergency service shall be compensated at the rate of $30.00 per employee per 168 hours so assigned. Minimum manning and skill qualifications for standby assignment shall be deter- mined by the City. Assignment of such standby duty shall be rotated on an equal basis among al_l qualified employees who reside in an area that provides an acceptable response time as determined by the City. 8.4 Callback Pay If an employee is called or required to report for assigned emergency or other duties during the period of the close of the regular workday and the start of the next following workday, compensation shall be paid at one and one half times the normal rate for the period the employee is required to be available at the work station, and for travel time in connection therewith to and from the employee's customary residence at one and one- half times the normal rate. SECTION 9.0: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTION The City agrees to pay half of the employee's contribution rate to the Public Employees Retirement System not to exceed 3.5% of applicable salary. Such payment shall be conditioned upon approval of the Public Employees Retirement System to an amendment in its contract with the City to authorize such payments to be made. The City agrees to proceed immediately with the procedural requirements for implementation of this provision and will assume all costs attendant thereto. SECTION 10: TRUST AND AGENCY FUND In the event that the City is unable to establish a July 1, 1978, effective date for the granting of salary increases as provided in Section 8.1 or for the contribution to be made toward the employee's portion of the cost of membership in the Public Employees Retirement System as provided in Section 9.0 herein, the City agrees as follows: a. To place in a newly established Trust and Agency fund under control of the City the monetary equivalent of those amounts that othe'rwise would have been paid to or to the account of each affected employee - 4 - at the time or times when such pay111ents are or become payable. b. Monies placed in such Trust and Agency fund shall be credited with interest earned thereon in a proportionate a~ount to the interest earned for all City funds. Such interest income shall accrue and be credited to the account of each affected employee on a pro-rata basis in accordance with relative value of each account to the sum of all accounts in the fund. c. Disbursement from this fund to each affected employee shall be made in a lump sum, less any applicable withholding required of the City, at the earliest practical time permitted. Should such disbursement be permitted only for monies so placed pursuant to provisions o~ Section 8 or to Section 9 then such disbursement shall be made as stated with the re- mainder to be held in trust until it is permitted to be so disbursed. d. To liquidate this Trust and Agency fund at the earliest permitted time. In the event that such is not permitted during the effective term of this Memorandum of Understanding, the amount contained therein shall remain as being credited to the account of each affected employee and shall be disbursed accordingly when so permitted. SECTION 11.0: HEALTH AND WELFARE BENEFITS The City agrees to make available a plan of comprehensive health and welfare benefits for eligible employees, as provided by the Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California, upon continued approval of such plan by the Board of Administration, Public Employees Retirement System. For each participating employee, the City shall contribute towards the premium due the lesser of either the actual premium cost or the amount of $107.00 during the period of July 1, 197S through July 31, 1978. For each participating employee, the City shall contribute monthly towards the premium due the lesser of either the actual premium cost or the amount of $139.00 during the pP.riod August 1, 1978 through June 30, ~~)9. Required contribution amounts exceeding the premium contribution of the City are the responsibility of the employee. The City shall not be required to maintain or contribute any other payment towards dental, medical or life insurance plans during the period the Operating Engineer's Health and Welfare Plan is made available. SECTION 12.0: DISABILITY· INSURANCE The City agrees to that premium now in effect for a program of income protection insurance for eligible employees as described in the City's Standard Insurance Company Policy #309777A. -5 - SECTION 13.0: PAID ABSENCES 13.1 Fixed Holidavs The City shall provide the following fixed paid holidays for eligible employees covered by this agreement: 1. ,., '-. 3. 4. 5. New Year's Day Washington's Birthday Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day 6. 7. 8. 9. Veteran's Day Thanksgiving Day Day following Thanksgiving Christmas Day When a holiday or non-work day falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be observed as the non-work day; and when a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be observed as the non-work day. Nothing contained herein shall preclude the right of the department head with the approval of the Appointing Authority to reschedule work assignments or hours of work to meet emergency situations and other administrative necessities caused by the observance of a holiday or non- work day or period; provide'd, however, that all such af:ected employees are duly compensated for said rescheduled work assignments. 13.l~l Holiday Pay In order for an employee to receive his regular pay for a holiday or designated non-work day, work must be performed on the regular scheduled day before and the regular scheduled day after the holiday or designated non-work day. Employees on vacation, injury leave, approved short term leave of absence, with or without pay, or who submit satisfactory evidence of personal illness shall be considered as working their regular schedule for pay purposes. 13.2 Floating Holidays In addition to the fore.going paid holidays, eligible employees shall be allowed to schedule two workdays as additional holidays. These two floating holidays shall be taken at dates of the employee's selection, provided, however, that prior supervisory approval be obtained in each instance as to the acceptability of the dates selected by the employee. 13.3 Good Friday Non-Work Period The period of 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. on Good Friday shall be observed as a non-work period. 13.4 Vacations All employees, other than those holding temporary status, whose work assignment is of a recurring nature of not less than a normal work - 6 - week shall accrue vacation credits during any one calendar year which vacation may be taken during the calendar year following that in which it was earned. 13 .4 .1 On the completion of that continuous service between the date of initial appointment to the City and the end of the then current calendar year, an employee shall have earned vacation credit on the basis of r'ive- sixths (5/6) workday for each completed month of.continuous service. 13 .4 .2 For each completed month of continuous service during those calendar years following the time period referred to in Section 8.21, above, an employee shall earn vacation credit on the basis of five-sixths (5/6) workday for each of such completed month of continuous service. 13. 4. 3 During the fourth calendar year of employment, an employee shall earn vacation credit on the basis of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) workdays for each of such completed month of continuous service. 13 .4. 4 During the fifteenth calendar year of employment and thereafter an employee shall earn vacation credits at the rate of one and two-thirds (1 2/3) workdays for each month of completed continuous service. 13.4.5 On recommendation of the employee's department head and with the written approval of the Appointing Authority, an employee may carry over to the next subsequent calendar year any portion of the vacation credit that he would otherN"ise be entitled to take during the preceding calendar year provided that such carry over shall be limited to not more than that which was earned during the prior calendar year. 13.4. 6 Full vacation leave shall be taken at one time by any one employee whenever possible. The time during the calendar year at which an employee shall take his vacation shall be determined with due regard for the wishes of the employee and particular regard for the needs of the service. Vacation leave of less than the full amount earned may be taken with the approval of the department head. 13 .4. 7 On termination of employment or on receiving a leave of absence of more than three (3) months, an employee who has completed twelve (12) months of continuous service with the City shall be entitled to receive - 7 - compensation for all earned but. unused vacation accrued at the time of termination or at the start of said leave of absence. 13.4.8 The accrual of vacation credits for those employees whose normal work week is of not less than one-half (1/2) time shall be prorated according to the time of the recurring work assignment as to the normal work week. 13.5 Personal Leave All employees, other than those holding temporary status, whose wor.k assignment is of a recurring nature of not less than a normal work week shall accrue personal leave credit at the rate of one (1) workday for each completed month of continued service. There shall be no limit to the accumulation of personal leave credit any one employee may accrue. 13. 5 .1 Personal leave may be used by the employee for personal illness; for supplementing the amount payable as temporary disability; for non-work time occasioned by appointments for medical and dental treatments and office visits; for illness or death of members of the employee's immediate family; for periods of emergency within the employee's household necessitating his absence from work; and, for other matters of urgent personal business which cannot be taken care of outside of working hours which in the opinion of the department head justifies the employee being excused from work. 13.6 Absence Notification An employee is expected not to absent himself from work for any reason other than personal illness without making prior arrangements with his supervisor. Unless prior arrangements are made, an employee who, for any reason, fails to report for work must make a sincere effort to immedi- ately notify his supervisor of his reason for being absent. If the absence, whether for personal illness or otherwise, is to continue beyond the first day, the employee must notify the supervisor on a daily basis unless otherwise arranged with his supervisor. In proper cases exceptions will be made. Any unauthorized absence of an employee from duty shall be deemed to be an absence without pay and will be grounds for disciplinary action by the department head. In the absence of such disciplinary action, any employee who absents himself for three days or more without authorized leave shall be deemed to have resigned. s~ch absence may be covered, however, by the department head by a following grant of leave with or 8 - without pay when extenuating circumstances are found to have existed. SECTION 14.0: PERSONAL LEAVE ACCUMULATION CONVERSION The City agrees to pay employees covered by this agreement for unused balances of personal leave upon retirement or termination for other than just cause according to the following schedules: 14.1 Upon retirement, which shall require the formal filing of the appropriate forms with the Public Employees Retirement System, a cash payment equivalent to sixty-five percent (65%) of the dollar value of the unused personal. leave balanc_e exceeding forty days. Dollar value for such payment shall be calculated at a wage rate which is the average of the preceding five· (5) years for the employee. 14.2 Upon termination for other than discharge with just cause, a cash payment equivalent to fifty percent (50%) of the dollar value of the unused personal leave balance exceeding forty days. The dollar value for such payment shall be calculated at a wage rate which is the average of the preceding five (5) years for the employee. SECTION 15.0: SAFETY EQUIPMENT The City will provide, according to the schedule below, an allowance to all full-time employees for the purchase of clothing and safety equipment. The City shall retain the right for establishing minimum safety and quality standards for the clothing and safety equipment to be used while performing assigned tasks. Fiscal Year 1978-1979 1. The City shall provide each employee with: a. rain gear b. hard hats c. coveralls d. vest 2. Upon presentation of a receipt of purchase, the City shall reimburse all employees up to $19.00 for the purchase of the following: a. goggles/safety glasses b. gloves c. ear plugs - 9 - 3. Upon presentation of a receipt of purchase, the City shall reimburse all employees who have satisfactorily completed the probationary period with up to $62.00 for the purchase of two pairs of safety boots of such construction to protect the wearer from foot injury from falling or sharp objects. Fiscal Year 1979-1980 1. Upon presentation of a receipt of purchase, the City shall reimburse each regular, full-time employee with up to $110 per fiscal year for the purchase of the following: a. rain gear b. hard hats c. vests d. boots e. goggles/safety glasses f. gloves g. work clothes h. ear plugs 2. Upon presentation of a receipt of purchase, the City shall reimburse all new full-time employees with up to $48 for the purchase of the following: a. rain gear b. hard hats c. vests d. gloves e. ooooles/safety 0 00 glasses f. work clothes g. ear plugs A new employee who, for whatever reason, terminates his/her employment with the City before the beginning of the next fiscal year, shall turn in the clothing and equipment for which the City reimbursed the employee or pay to the City the prorated value of said clothing and equipment. It will be the responsibility of the employee to have the required clothing and/or safety equipment needed for the tasks assigned. If an employee should be at work without the required clothing or safety equipment, that employee will not be paid until he is at the work site with the required clothing and/or safety equipment. 15.1 Responsibility for· Lost Tools The City shall provide all tools and equipment which are required as necessary to perform any assigned task in a safe manner. Tools and equipment so provided shall be considered in the safekeeping of the employee to whom they are issued and who shall assume personal responsibility -10 - for their custody until such time as they are returned. Tools and equipment not returned at the designated time by an employee to whom they are issued may be charged to such employee who will be required to reimburse the City for like replacement; provided, however, that such requirement for reimbursement shall not apply when reasonable doubt can be demonstrated that missing tools or equipment were stolen by other persons and not as the result of having been misplaced. Nothing herein shall be construed as being applicable to damage or breakage of such tools and equipment caused by normal and prudent use in the performance of assigned tasks for which they were intended. SECTION 16.0: TEMPORARY DISABILITY BENEFITS Any employee sustaining an injury arising out of, or in the course of, the performance of his job and who cannot work at the duties and responsi- bilities normally assigned to that job is entitled to receive temporary disability payments. Temporary disability payments shall be made for one week in advance as wages on the fourth day after the injured employee leaves work as a result of the injury; however, if the injury causes disability of more than twenty-one consecutive days or necessitates hospitalization, the temporary disability payments shall be made from the first day the injured employee leaves work as a result of the injury. Amounts payable as temporary disability payments shall be based upon the injured employee's weekly earnings, or his weekly earning capacity at the time of the injury, multiplied by 66.667 percent; provided, however, no such payments shall be less than forty-nine dollars per week nor more than one hundred fifty-four dollars per week or as otherwise may be established by law. Aggregate disability payments for a single injury causing temporary disability shall not extend for more than two hundred forty compensable weeks within a period of five years from the date of the injury. 16.1 Use of Personal Leave to Supplement Temporary Disability Payments Any employee entitled to receive temporary disability payments may elect to supplement such payments with an amount not to exceed that which is the employee's weekly earnings or weekly earning capacity by use of personal leave payments to the extent that such personal leave has been accrued to the employee's account. -11 - SECTION 17: RECORDING OF TIME The City and the employees covered by this Memorandum of Understanding both recognize the need to provide the required levels of service in the best cost-effective manner as possible. Adherence to prescribed attendance regulations is one of many factors involved in providing such service. Should the City be able to demonstrate that other administrative techniques are insufficient to record properly the attendance of employees, the City and the Union, as the designated representatives of the employees, agree that at such time further discussions will be held on the necessity for and the procedural aspects of implementing an alternative method of assuring proper recordation of attendance. Said discussions will be limited to this subject matter and will not be the basis for negotiating any other condition of employment. SECTION 18: DUE PROCESS In each and every instance involving the issuance of warning notices, suspensions or the dismissal or discharge of an employee, such will not be effectuated without the empl9yee first having been given in writing the basis for such action being taken and the opportunity to question the reasons therefore of his supervisor or department head. Said opportunity shall be as soon as it is practicable after having been served the written notice and shall not constitute any limitation otherwise available through the grievance or appeal procedures. SECTION 19: LAYOFFS Layoffs of employees may be made by the Appointing Authority for lack of funds, lack of work or for other similar and just cause. The order of layoff shall be that which, in the opinion of the Appointing Authority, will cause the least disruption of service to the City; provided, however, that within any given position classification employees whose salaries or wages are funded in part or whole by Federal employment grants shall be laid off first before employees holding certified status and who occupy positions funded from sources other than Federal employment grants. The City and Union agree that at a mutually convenient time during the term of this agreement discussions will be held preparatory to the development of a layoff procedure which will provide for such conditions as applicable criteria, demotion in lieu of layoff, recall and other similar but allied provisions. SECTION 20: REINSTATEMENT The names of employees affected by layoff shall be placed on a recall -12 - list for a period of t~,.;o years in the reverse order oi layoff and shall have the first opportunity for reinstatement. Failure to respond within ten days to a written notice of such opportunity shall cause that name to be removed from the recall list. Employees whose salaries and wages are funded in part or whole by Federal employment grants and who are laid off shall not be eligible for reinstatement until all other employees whose names are on the recall list have been given the opportunity for reinstatement. SECTION 21: I::1PASSE PROCEDURES The following procedures, extracted from the Municipal Code, shall apply in the event the parties are unable to resolve an impasse satisfactorily: 2.52.410 Impasses A. Impasse procedures may be invoked only after the possibility of settlement by direct discussion has been exhausted. The impasse procedures are as follows: 1. Mediation (or conciliation). (Defined in Section 2.52.290) All mediation proceedings shall be private. The mediator shall make no public recommendations nor take any public position concerning the issue; 2. A determination by the City Council after a hearing on the merits of the dispute. 3. Any other dispute resolving procedures to which the parties mutually agree or r.rhich the City Council may order. Any party may initiate the impasse procedure by filing with the other party (or parties) affected a written request for an impasse meeting together with a statement of its position on all disputed issues. An impasse meeting shall then be scheduled by the municipal employee relations officer forthwith after the date of filing of the written request for such meeting, with written not~ce to all parties affected. The purpose of such impasse meeting is two fold: a. To permit a review of the position of all parties in a final effort to reach agreement on the disputed issues, and b. If agreement is not concluded, to mutually select the specific impasse procedure to which the dispute shall be submitted; in the absence of agreement between the parties on this point, the matter shall be referred to the City Council. B. The fees and expenses, if any, of mediators or of any other impasse procedure, shall be payable one-half by the City and one-half by the employee organization or employee organizations. (Ord. XII Ch. 6, Art. 2 Section 12:624, 1970: -13 - SECTION 22.0: EXISTING BENEFITS CONTINUED The parties agree that all terms and conditions .of employment not otherwise provided for herein shall be maintained at the standards in effect at the time of execution of this agreement. SECTION 23.0: SEPARABILITY In the event any provision of this agreement is finally held to be illegal by a court of competent jurisdiction or void as being in contravention of any law, rule or regulation of any government agency having jurisdiction over the subject set forth, then the remainder of the agreement shall continue in full force and effect unless the parts so found to be void are held inseparable from the remaining portion of the agreement. SECTION 24.0: TERM This agreement shall be effective for one year, commencing at 12:01 a.m., July 1, 1978, and ending at 11:59 p.m., June 30, 1979 with the exception of Section 15.0 which shall end at 11:59 p.m., June 30, 1980. SECTION 25.0: RATIFICATION Nothing contained in this memorandum shall be binding upon either the City or the Union following signing of this memorandum by the parties until it has been ratified by the Union's membership and presented and approved by the City Council of the City. CUPERTINO OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL UNION NO. 3 -14 - Utility Worker Week Month Hour Water Utility Worker I Week Month Hour Maintenance Worker I Week Month Hour Water Utility Worker II Week Month Hour Maintenance Worker II Week Month Hour Maintenance Worker III ·Sr. Water Utility Worker --cstreet -Sweeper -Operator Week Month Hour Equipment Mechanic Week Month Hour Wage Rate Schedule Public Works Unit Step 1 175.08 758.68 4.377 214. 92 931.32 5.373 218.88 948.48 5.472 225.92 978.99 5.648 230.12 997.19 5.753 254.88 1104.48 6.372 268.64 1164.11 6. 716 Step 2 184.12 797.85 4.603 225.92 978.99 5.648 230.12 997.19 5.753 236. 96 1026.83 5.924 241.40 1046.07 6.035 268.64 1164.11 6.716 281.04 1217.84 7.026 Step 3. 193.12 836.85 4.828 236. 96 1026.83 5.924 241.40 1046.07 6.035 248.00 1074.67 6.200 253.40 1098.0:7 6.335 281.04 1217.84 7.026 296.16 1283.36 7.404 ,LL\'' I I :,\ J l L Maximum 212.20 919.53 5.305 260.36 1128.23 6.509 265.20 1149. 20 6.630 274.12 1187.85 6.853 279.28 1210.21 6.982 311.32 1349. 05 7.783 326.44 1414.57 8.161