Article 4
Bargaining History
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This Article rolls over the language that was agreed to at negotiations in 1989. This bargaining history reflects the intent of the parties when this Article was negotiated in 1989.

This Article provides that all bargaining unit employees not currently covered by a flexible work plan will now be covered by one of the flexible schedules outlined in Section 2.

The Department proposed, and the parties agreed, to add Section 3 requiring the use of serial sign in/sign out sheets to record employees' time of arrival and departure in sequential order. As a part of the Agreement, the number of credit hours that could be carried over was increased to twenty-four (24) hours, the maximum allowed by law.

The parties also agreed to add Section 5 to reflect that employees planning to work more than eight (8) hours in a day and beyond the end of the supervisor's official workday are to inform their supervisor of their intent to do so. This language was added so that supervisors may establish or restructure work priorities which are to be performed during these additional work hours. This requirement is not applicable to those on fixed work schedules, including those working a 5-4/9 schedule. It is expected that employees will abide by this requirement and those who fail to do so should be reminded of the requirement. Continued failure to inform the supervisor may be viewed as refusal and may be deemed to be abuse of the system and grounds for removal from participating in a flexible work schedule.

Section 11 was added to reflect that in cases where an employee abuses the flexible work provisions, the employee may be removed from participating in a flexible work schedule. This language had previously been included in a separate agreement on timekeeping.