022-22 - Teamsters Local No. 589-Municipal Court - Contract Amendment MOU No. 3Memorandum of Understanding
Amended to the AGREEMENT by and between
CITY OF PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON
and
TEAMSTERS LOCAL NO. 589
(Representing the Municipal Court Employees dated
January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025)
THIS AMENDMENT is supplemental to the COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
by and between the CITY OF PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON (the "City") and the
TEAMSTERS LOCAL NO. 589 (the "Union") (representing Municipal Court Employees),
dated January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2025.
WHEREAS, the 2022-2025 collective bargaining agreement between the parties
provides for bereavement leave; and
WHEREAS, grandchildren were added to the list of immediate family members
through a Memorandum of Understanding dated July 6, 2022; and
WHEREAS, in the regular course of reviewing and updating City policies, it was
found that the City policy related to bereavement did not include relatives such as the spouse
of an employee's child, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to be as inclusive as possible and use gender neutral terms
in policy language where applicable; and
WHEREAS, the City desired to eliminate the need for an employee requesting
bereavement leave to complete a paper form; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to provide the same bereavement leave benefits to
employees represented by the Teamsters Local 589 as are currently available to non -
represented employees;
NOW THEREFORE, the City and the Union agree as follows:
1. On the effective date of this MOU, Article 14 of the collective bargaining
agreement ("CBA") between the City and the Union representing Municipal Court
Employees shall be modified as follows:
14.1 Employees shall be allowed up to twenty-four (24) hours of paid bereavement
leave for death in the immediate family upon approval and authorization of the
Judge or designee. The Judge or designee may require verification of the family
member's death. For travel out of state an employee shall receive, subject to the
approval of the Judge or designee, an additional sixteen (16) hours of paid
bereavement leave. Part-time employees will receive a pro-rata amount of
bereavement leave.
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14.2 For purposes of paragraph 14.1 above, "immediate family" means the
employee's spouse (or Washington State registered domestic partner as defined
by Chapter 26.60 RCW), their ehild fen angler- step ehild fen gr-andehildr-en, and
both the employee's and the spouse's/domestic partner's child, step -child,
grandchild, child's spouse, siste-��ffsiblin
other, father-, mother- in law, and father- in law, parent, grandparent, parent's
sibling, sibling's ibling's children as well as any "step or foster" relation and any other
familial inhabitant of the employee's household. If an employee would like to
attend the funeral of an individual not listed in this section, upon approval and
authorization of the Judge or designee, the employee may do so either by using
accrued vacation leave, or if the employee has no vacation leave available, leave
without pay. The amount of leave set forth in section 14.1, above, will apply.
The provisions of Section 15.3 requiring exhaustion of paid leave before leave
without pay will not apply to Article 14.
2. This MOU is effective when signed by both parties. No modification to this MOU
is valid unless in writing and signed by the parties.
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