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CCR1985246RESOLUTION 11246-85 APPROVAL OF 1985186 LABOR AGREEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATORS) WHEREAS, the Finance Committee has recommended that the Local 112414 (Telecommunicators) be approved. settlement of the 1985186 labor agreement between the City and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City of Muskego, upon the recommendation of the Finance Committee, does hereby approve of the proposed 1985186 labor agreement between the City and Local 112414 (Telecommunicators) as attached. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the effective date of said agreement shall be January 1, 1985. DATED THIS STH DAY OF OCTOG€?L , 1985. FINANCE COMMITTEE Ald. Edwin P. Dumke ATTEST : City Clerk 10185 jm ATTACHMENT TO RESOLUTION #246-85 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT - TELECOMMUNICATORS - 1985186 settlement: The following is a summary of the more important terms of be offered for the duration of the agreement in their present 1. Insurance. c:urrent insurance plans will continue to form. Language will be added to the contract to give the City the right to offer additional insurance plans at any time during the term of the contract in the City's discretion. 2. Payroll Periods. The City shall pay all new hires pursuant to its current: pay period system which was' recently changed. The former sy.stem will remain applicable for existing employees for the present time. bution for the oension ~lan in the amount of $.02 in 1985, and an 3. Pension Plan. The City agrees to increase the contri- additional $.03- in 1986: In addition, the City will pay up to 1% Of the current administration fee charged by the Pension Plan Trustee to all employees. (This agreement is roughly equivalent ployees in other municipalities, as well as the Police Officers to the increase in Wisconsin Retirement Fund payments that em- in Muskego. will receive as a result of their collective bargain- ing agreements and increases in employee contributions, generally paid by the employer, scheduled for January 1, 1986. Therefore, the purpose of this settlement is to maintain a rough parity with the WRF for the term of this agreement as it relates to increases in contribution.) that the Police Department shall have the unlimited right to hire 4. Part-Time Employees. The City and the Union agree part-time employees at its discretion. The only limitations on this Department's right to utilize part-time employees shall be that in the event there is a vacancy in a full-time equivalent position, full-time employees shall have preference for placement in that job over part-time employees. In addition, in the event there is a partial vacancy in a full-time equivalent position, then the vacancy shall be considered wholly vacant for the pur- poses of job posting. 20 hours a week or more shall be entitled to pro-rated benefits The parties also agreed that part-time employees who work as are other part-time City employees. For those part-time em- ployees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours, they shall only be entitled to jury duty and sick leave provided, how- ever, that there shall be no payout of sick leave to terminating part-time employees. -2- viding for a series of wage increases during the term of that 5. Wages. The parties agreed to a two-year contract pro- contract. In keeping with the City's practice of a 4% wage in- crease in 1985, the parties agreed to a 4% increase on January 1. 1985. The parties also agreed to a 4% increase on January 1, 1986. In addition to those increases, the parties agreed to two additional increases of 1% each on December 31, 1985, and Decem- ber 31, 1986. It is specifically understood and agreed by the parties that these two additional 1% increases represented catch- with competitive wage rates of other cities of similar size and up increases in order to bring Telecommunicator employees in line tax base. It should be noted that Police Officers also received of Public Works employees did not for the reason that their wage two 1% catch-up increases in their contract while the Department catch-up. rates are already competitive and therefore not entitled to such 6. Vacations. The parties agreed to amend the contract vide a consistent policy throughout the City. to provide five weeks of vacation after 20 years in order to pro- 7. Sick Leave. The parties agreed that the City may re- quire mental or physical examinations of employees when there is a basis for questioning the employee's mental or physical fitness for duty.