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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979-2265 FRINGE BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN CITY EMPLOYEES. S ORDINANCE NO. 60' - AN ORDINANCE relating to city personnel; providing fringe bene- fits for certain city employees; amending Sections 2.40.020 and 2.40.100 and Subsections 2.04.030 B, 2.24.010 A, 2.40.090 A and 2.40.090 B, and enacting Section 2.20.120 as a new section, 'all of the City 410 of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Subsection 2.04.030 B of the City of Yakima Muni- . cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2.04.030 City contributions. B. Hospital and medical insurance plan. Effective January 1, 1979, the City shall contribute, towards payment of the premium for the group hospital and medi- cal insurance plan adopted by Section 2.04.010 of this chapter, the following amounts for the following posi- tions or groups of employees, respectively: 1. For all Fire Department employees and their dependents, except the Chief and Battalion Chiefs, the City shall pay the full premium. 2. For Police Department patrolmen and sergeants, the City shall pay the amount of fifty-two dollars three cents per month for those • employees with two or more dependents covered by the plan, or the amount of thirty dollars ninety-seven cents per month for employees with one dependent covered by the plan; pro- vided, commencing July 1, 1979, the City shall pay the full premium for Police Depart- ment patrolmen and sergeants. 3. For all employees in the exempt classification as specified by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code and their dependents, and for the Chief and Battalion Chiefs in the Fire Department and for the Chief, Captains and Lieutenants in the Police Department and their dependents, the City shall pay the full premium. 4. For each other employee enrolled in the plan, the City shall pay the full premium; provided, effective January 1, 1980, the City shall pay the full premium for each such other employee and the employee's spouse and/or dependents enrolled in the plan." Section 2. Section 2.20.120 is hereby enacted as a new section of the City of Yakima Municipal Code to read as follows: "2.20.120 Shift differential. Effective January 1, 1979, any employee within the bargaining unit of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will be paid a shift differential premium 411 equal to an additional two percent per hour over that • employee's base pay for all hours worked (rounded to the nearest one-half hour) by the employee between - 10 the hours of six o'clock p.m. and six o'clock a.m. during that employee's regularly scheduled shift; provided, effective January 1, 1980, the rate of the shift differential premium shall be increased to four percent per hour over base pay." Section 3. Subsection 2.24.010 A of the City of Yakima Muni- ip cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2.24.0.10 Longevity plan--Eligibility--Restric- tions. A. Effective January 1, 1979, those employees of the City of Yakima (except all Fire Department employees and except employees in the exempt classification as specified by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code and except the Chief, Captains and Lieutenants of the Yakima Police Department) who are regularly and continuously employed full time, and permanent seasonal employees, who have completed periods of service as hereinafter set forth, shall receive compensation, called longevity pay, in addition to their regular salary, according to the following schedule, to be paid on the first applicable day following the thirty- - first day of December and the thirtieth day of June of each year; provided, that seasonal -employees shall be paid any longevity pay to which they may be entitled upon the termination of any season worked. Years Service Longevity Compensation At least 60 months and less than 120 months $20.00 per month At least 120 months and less than 180 months 30.00 per month At least 180 months and less than 240 months 40.00 per month 240 months or more . . . 50.00 per month" • Section 4. Section 2.4,0.020 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2.40.020 Vacation leave. A. Rate of accrual of vacation leave. (1) Effective January 1, 1979, each eligible employee, except Fire Department employees, Police Department employees above the rank of Sergeant, and employees in the exempt classification as speci- fied by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code, shall earn vacation leave at the following rates for each full calendar month of service: 410 1. Employees with one full year of service shall earn 10 working days, five of which may be taken after six months of service; 2. Employees with two full years of service shall earn 12 working days; 3. Employees with five full years of service shall earn 15 working days; 4. Employees with ten full years of service shall earn 19 working days; -2- 5. Employees with more than fifteen full years • of service shall earn 22 working days. (2) Effective January 1, 1978, all employees in the exempt classification as specified by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code, the Chief and Battalion Chiefs of the Yakima Fire Department and the Chief, Captains and Lieutenants of the Yakima Police Department shall be entitled to vacation leave at the following hourly rates for each full month of service: 1. Employees with less than two years of ser- vice shall earn eight hours; 2. Employees with two years or more but less than six years of service shall earn nine and thirty-three hundredths hours; 3. Employees with six years or more but less than ten years of service shall earn twelve hours; 4. Employees with ten years or more but less • than fifteen years of service shall earn fourteen hours; 5. Employees with fifteen or more years of ser- vice shall earn sixteen hours. B. Accumulation of vacation. (1) An employee within the bargaining unit of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em- ployees may accumulate vacation leave time in an amount equal to the vacation time the employee earns during two years of service, according to the accrual rate specified in Subsection A (1) of this section. (2) All employees except those within the bargain- ing unit of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees may accumulate vacation leave time not to exceed two hundred forty hours." Section 5. Subsection 2.40.090 A of the City of Yakima Munici- pal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2.40.090 Work week. A. Work week provisions. With the exception of the Fire and Police Departments and Transit Division and other jobs which require special consideration by mutual agreement between the employees and the appoint- ing authority, the following provisions shall govern the work week, work day and work shifts of employees within the bargaining unit of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees: 1. Work week. The work week shall consist of five consecutive eight hour days with two consecutive days off, or four consecutive ten hour days with three consecutive days off. -3- 2. Work day.- Eight or ten consecutive hours of work within a twenty-four hour period shall 411 constitute a work day, and the regular hours of work each day shall be consecutive except that they may be interrupted by a lunch period which shall not be less than thirty minutes. • 3. Work shift. Eight or ten consecutive hours of work shall constitute a work shift. All employees shall be scheduled to work on a • regular work shift, and each work shift shall have a regular starting and quitting time." Section 6. Subsection 2.40.090 B of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: • "2.40.090 Work week. B. Work week--Transit operators. The work week for transit operators shall consist of 40 hours per calendar week. A work day may be either consecutive hours or a split shift, with assignment to shifts and routes to be made on the basis of requests by transit drivers according to their seniority." Section 7. Section 2.40.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2.40.100 Overtime pay. A. Overtime payment will be allowed for an em- ployee below the rank of division head and police captain when ordered to work at the rate of time and one-half except as follows: 1. When police officers are required to appear in municipal court during their off-duty hours, they shall be paid at a straight time rate for such time. A minimum of two hours per day for court appearance shall be allowed. The officers shall have the option to take time off, at a straight time rate, in lieu of paymeat, and to accumulate such time off to a maximum of twenty-four hours for any one officer. 2. Overtime payment may be allowed for division heads and police captains at the ram of time and one-half when required to work because of an emergency or unusual circumstances if approved by the city manager. 3. - Department directors, when required to work overtime in a nonsupervisory capacity because of an emergency determined by the city mana- ger, may be paid overtime at a straight time rate. 4. Compensating time off in lieu of overtime pay, as based on the rates provided by this subsection, may be taken at a time agreed 411 upon by the department head and the employee, but may not be imposed by the department head in lieu of overtime pay upon any employee who has not so requested such com- pensating time off. Compensatory time off may be accumulated to a maximum of five work- ing days unless the City Manager approves -4- i 40 additional accrual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstance; provided, however, an employee, who as of February 8, 1979, has accumulated compensatory time in excess of five days, may retain and use that accumulated compensatory time. 410 B. Overtime pay for employees, other than Fire Department personnel, who are paid at a monthly rate shall be computed by dividing the basic monthly salary by one hundred seventy-three and thirty-three one-hundredths and multiplying by a factor of 1,5, C, Fractions of an hour served on overtime duty shall be rounded to the next full hour for the purpose of computing the amount of overtime, D, Time spent by an employee beyond the normal working day for training classes or travel shall not be considered overtime work. III E, A minimum of two hours pay at the time and one-half rate will be paid to an employee who is called to return to work after leaving the work site at the completion of the shift, or called to work on a day off, Such call-out time shall be counted from the time the employee leaves home and until the employee returns home.' Section 8. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publica- tion as provided by law and by the City Charter. III PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this day of .9..A, , 1979. CLe.tt,--Ir Mayor ATTEST: , ■ , 1 , L" , I 0 - * -1 * Ci / 1 Clerk t III • -5-