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Police Officer Union Contract Negotiations Update August 10, 1995 Page 3 City’s part-time pay schedule was applicable. This issue was resolved through the binding arbitration process. The arbitrator ruled that for all hours worked beyond 728 (14 hours per week times 52 weeks) the officer should be paid a full time officer rate as indicated in the contract. Because the arbitrator’s ruling did not meet the desires of either the City or the Union, and to avoid future disagreements regarding this issue, the City and Umon have negotiated a part-time pay schedule that is proposed to be made part of the police officer contract. The Union ’s Regarding Part-Time Officer. £ay The Union does not want a situation where the City uses part-time officers to simplv replace full-time officers with a part-time officer at a sipficantly lower pay rate. The City has indicated the main purpose of the p^-time officers is to fill in gaps in the schedule when full-time officers are on sick leave or vacation so that the City docs not have to pay other full-time officers at an overtime rate to fill these gaps. This benefits both the City and the officers. The City is able to pay less to fill out the schedule and the officers have more fiexibUity m takmg time off. The negotiations were focused on the number of hours per week at which a part- time officer should be paid a part-time rate vs. the full-time rate. The two ends of this continuum were not in dispute. If the officer works less than 14 hours per week, the pay rate is determined by the City and is set out in the non-umon compensation plan. If the officer works a full-time schedule, the officer wUl be paid according to the police officer contract for full-time officers. It was agreed that if the part-time officer works 35 hours per week or more, the officer would receive psy 3CCording to the full-time officer contract. The remaining issue was what the level of pay should be if the officers worked a schedule greater than 14 hours per week but less than 35 hours per week. To resolve this issue, a new schedule was developed that added two steps to the City’s current part-time pay schedule. This schedule is set out and explained as Item #2 on the attached proposal regarding police officer pay schedules. The work schedules of the part-time officers will be reviewed each three months to determine the applicable pay schedule. This proposed pay schedule provides the City with flexibility to use part-time officers more than 14 hours per week but less than 35 hours per week without paying them at the full-time officer rate. The increase in the part-time pay schedule is significanUy tempered by the fact that the part-time officers are only eligible for the top two steps when they are working a schedule greater than 14 hours per week.