Voluntary Deductions A. The Employer agrees to deduct from the wages of any employee who is a member of the Union a PEOPLE deduction as provided for in a written authorization. Such authorization must be executed by the employee and may be revoked by the employee at any time by giving written notice to both the Employer and the Union. The Employer agrees to remit any deductions made pursuant to this provision to the Union together with an electronic report showing:
1. Employee name;
Salary Deductions Salaried employees (E-level classifications) who are permanently assigned to full-time job classifications are paid on a bi-weekly salary basis. Salaried employees are paid a bi-weekly salary based on a minimum of two (2) forty (40) hour workweeks. The bi-weekly salary received by salaried employees will not be reduced regardless of the number of hours the salaried employee actually works in any week in which the salaried employee performs any work except for the following deductions:
(A) Deductions from a salaried employee's salary may be made for any workweek in which the salaried employee performs no work.
(B) Deductions from a salaried employee's salary may be made when the employee absents himself from work for a full day or days for personal reasons, other than sickness or accident. This provision shall not prevent appropriate deductions from being made from any employee's vacation leave balance pursuant to Article 11 of this Agreement for absences of less than a day for personal reasons, other than sickness or accident.
(C) Deductions from an employee's salary may be made when a salaried employee absents himself from work for a day (or days) for sickness or accident disability in accordance with the provisions of Articles 13 and 14 of this Agreement.
(D) Deduction in a salaried employee's salary may be made for the initial or terminal week of the salaried employee if the salaried employee fails to work the entire workweek.
Voluntary Contributions Subrecipient must assure that voluntary contributions shall be allowed and may be solicited in accordance with the following requirements [OAA § 315(b)]:
1. The Subrecipient or any subcontractors for any Title III or Title VII-A services shall not use means tests.
2. Any Title III or Title VII-A client that does not contribute toward the cost of the services received shall not be denied services.
3. Methods used to solicit voluntary contributions for Title III and Title VII-A services shall be non-coercive.
4. Each service provider will:
a) Provide each recipient with an opportunity to voluntarily contribute to the cost of the service.
b) Clearly inform each recipient that there is no obligation to contribute and that the contribution is purely voluntary.
c) Protect the privacy and confidentiality of each recipient with respect to the recipient’s contribution or lack of contribution; and
d) Establish appropriate procedures to safeguard and account for all contributions.
e) Use all collected contributions to expand the services for which the contributions were given and to supplement (not supplant) funds received under this program.
Dues Deduction 1. The DTU will indemnify, defend, and hold the employer harmless against any claim made and against any suit instituted against the Employer on account of any check-off of union dues.
2. Upon receipt of a written authorization from an employee covered by this agreement, the Employer will deduct from the employee's pay the amount owed to the DTU by such employee for dues and its assessments.
3. It is understood that this provision will provide for 22 or 26 deductions per year for all covered employees as outlined in Appendix D. The Employer will remit to the DTU such sums as deductions are made to be implemented when the ACH system is functioning. There will be a one month trial transfer period. An electronic copy of the deduction will be provided to the DTU within five working days. Changes in the DTU membership dues rate will be certified to the Employer in writing over the signature of the authorized officer or officers of the DTU and shall be done at least 30 days in advance of the effective date of such change. The Employer's remittance will be deemed correct if the DTU does not give written notice to the Employer within thirty (30) calendar days after a remittance is received of its belief, with reason(s) stated therefore, that the remittance is incorrect.
4. No deduction of dues shall be made from the pay of any employee for any payroll period in which the employee's net earnings for that payroll period, after deductions, are less than the amount of dues to be checked off.
5. An employee may at any time revoke, in writing her/his authorization for dues deductions. Written requests received by the 20th day of the month will be effective no earlier than the first payday and no later than the second payday of the following month.
6. Any employee who has payroll deductions to DTU for membership dues at the time of any unpaid leave shall have such dues deductions reinstated when she/he returns from leave, unless canceled by the employee in writing.
Dues Deductions Dues deductions, once initiated, shall continue until the authorization is revoked in writing by the employee. For the administrative convenience of the City and the Union, an employee may only revoke a dues authorization by delivering the notice of revocation to the Controller during the two-week period prior to the expiration of this Agreement. The revocation notice shall be delivered to the Controller either in person at the Controller's office or by depositing it in the U.S. Mail addressed to the Payroll/Personnel Services Division, Office of the Controller, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Room 235, San Francisco, CA 94103-0948; Attention: Dues Deduction. The City shall deliver a copy of the notices of revocation of dues deductions authorizations to the Union within two (2) weeks of receipt.
