AgdaPkt 2016-10-24 Closed and Joint SA PFA HHCC

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8.3.B. - Page 54 the content of job classifications; to hire, transfer, promote, suspend, discipline and discharge employees; to assign work to employees in accordance with the requirements of the City; to establish and change work schedules and assignments; to lay off employees for lack of work; to expand or diminish services; to subcontract any work or operations; to determine and change methods of operations; to determine and change work locations and the processes and materials to be employed;to take all necessary actions to perform its functions in emergencies. SECTION 5. ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES City employees who are official representatives or unit representatives of the Association shall be given reasonable time off with pay to attend meetings with management representatives, or to be present at hearings where matters within the scope of representation or grievances are being considered. The use of official time for this purpose shall be reasonable and shall not interfere with the performance of City services as determined by the Personnel Officer. Such employee representatives shall submit a written request for excused absence to the Police Department head or his or her designated representative with an information copy to the City Manager, at least two (2) working days prior to the scheduled meeting whenever possible. Except by mutual agreement,the number of employees excused for such purposes shall not exceed two (2). No Lieutenant shall represent any Sergeant in any grievance or Internal Affairs investigation procedure, either official or informal, nor will a Lieutenant take part in any Association discussions involving personnel-related grievances that involve Sergeants or of which they have confidential knowledge. No Lieutenant shall share any information obtained pursuant to his or her management duties that the Chief or Command Staff has designated as confidential with fellow PSA members for any purpose. No PSA member shall ask a Lieutenant to disclose any information obtained pursuant to his or her management duties that have been deemed confidential by the Chief or Command Staff, nor take any action to compel them to share such information. No Lieutenant shall hold the position of PSA President or Vice President. Sergeants who are assigned as Acting Lieutenants for longer than 30 days and hold the office of PSA President or Vice President will temporarily resign from such office for the duration of the Acting Lieutenant assignment. SECTION 6, NO STRIKE The Association, its members and representatives, agree that they will not engage in, authorize, sanction, or support any strike, slowdown, stoppage of work, curtailment of production, concerted refusal of overtime work, refusal to operate designated equipment (provided such equipment is safe and sound) or to perform customary duties; and neither the Association nor any representatives thereof shall engage in job action for the purpose of effecting changes in the directives or decisions of management of the City, not to effect a change of personnel or operations of management or of employees not covered by this MOU. 8