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- Police Officer Union Contract Negotiations Update August 10, 1995 Page 2 up to several hours prior to a court appearance. This avoids the officer having to sit in the court room for several hours, but ensures the officer is available to respond to coun when the case gets to trial. When an officer appears in coun outside of a regular shift, the officer receives two hours of pay at the overtime rate. This pay generally provides compensation for any standby related to the trial. At limes, after being on standby for several hours, the trial is canceUed either for rescheduling or because a plea arrangement has been worked out. In these cases, the officer docs not appear for trial, and so docs not receive the overtime pay. Therefore, the officer receives no compensation for the standby time. The settlement proposal provides one hour of pay as compensation for this standby time. 4 Corporal differential pay. The corporal differential pay is pronosed to be 2.75% of regular pay in 1995 and 3% of regular pay in 1996. This is equivalent to $97.00 per month or $.56 per hour in 1995 and $106.00 per month or $.61 |^r hour in 1996. The corporals serve as shift leaders to provide direction and advice to the officers as well as taking on numerous special projects. There are very few departments who have corporal positions that Orono can use as comparisons concerning the corporal pay differential. However, departments do have pay differentials for a number of special duties. These differentials generally range from $100.00 per month to $125.00 per month. 5, Part-Time Officer Pay. The City ’s part-time police officers have been paid according to the pay schedule in the City ’s non-union compensation plan since the City began using part-time officers in approximately 1990. This pay schedule is applicable as long as the officers work less than 14 hours per week as their normal work schedule. This pay schedule is shown as Item #3 on the attached proposal of police officer pay schedules dated January 31, 1995. If the part-time officer normal work schedule is greater than 14 hours per week, they become members of the police officer bargaining unit and their pay and benefits become subject to negotiation with the Union. Rnrkpround Concerning the Part-Time Officer Pay Issue In 1993. due to a prolonged absence by a full-time officer for health reasons and increased expectations regarding patrol presence by the contract cities, one of the part-time officers worked well beyond the 14 hours per week normal schedule. The Union took the position that because the officer worked more than 14 hours per week he was eligible for pay and benefits set out for the full-time officers in the police officer contract. The City took the position that the police contract does not include language regarding pan-time officer pay and benefits, so that the -1.