AFFECTED. For purposes of this discussion, the Department has deemed a small entity to be an employee benefit plan with fewer than 100 participants. No small governmental jurisdictions are affected. Based on Form 5500 filings and Form M–1 filings by MEWAs pursuant to interim final rules published in the Federal Register on February 11, 2000 (65 FR 7152), it is estimated that there about 2,600 entities that can be classified as either collectively bargained plans or as MEWAs; however, EBSA believes that a very small number of these arrangements will have fewer than 100 participants. By their nature, the affected arrangements must involve at least two employers, which decreases the likelihood of coverage of fewer than 100 participants. Also, underlying goals of the formation of these arrangements, such as gaining purchasing and negotiating power through economies of scale, improving administrative efficiencies, and gaining access to additional benefit design features, are not readily accomplished if the group of covered lives remains small. The number of small plans found within the group of 2,600 collectively bargained plans or MEWAs is about 200, or eight percent. The Employee Benefits Supplement to the 1993 Current Population Survey and a 1993 Small Business Administration survey of retirement and other benefit coverages in small firms indicate that there are more than 2.5 million private group health plans with fewer than 100 participants. Thus, the 200 small entities potentially affected represent a very small portion of all small group health plans. Even if all 2,600 potentially affected entities were to have fewer than 100 participants, they would represent approximately one-tenth of one percent of all small group health plans. The Department is not aware of any source of information indicating the number of instances in which state law or jurisdiction has been asserted over these entities, or the portion of those instances that involved the collective bargaining agreement exception. However, in order to develop an estimate of the number of plans or arrangements that might seek to clarify their legal status by using an administrative hearing as proposed by these regulations, the Department examined the number of lawsuits to which the Department had previously been a party. While this number is not viewed as a measure of the incidence of the assertion of state jurisdiction, it is considered the only reasonable available proxy for an estimate of a maximum number ...
AFFECTED. The easement is granted in relation to the parking spaces and to the entire surface of the functional unit number ONE, which location, measures and boundaries have been perfectly indicated in the plane that is added to the present and have been previously delineated. 1)
AFFECTED. All SUBJECT: A Memorandum of Understanding (Extension Agreement) to extend contract period of the Articles of Agreement dated March 18, 2008 between the CITY OF EL PASO and LOCAL 51, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, INC., through August 31, 2011. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION: The City and Local 51 reached tentative agreement to the above contract extension through the collective bargaining process. The membership of Local 51 ratified the MOU/Extension Agreement on September 24, 2010. The agreement is now presented to the City Council for ratification. No changes are made to the agreement in the MOU and the pay scale remains as was set on January 3, 2010.
AFFECTED. This agreement shall apply to all full-time, regular and full-time, contract employees of the Board, in the Bargaining Unit except for employees in departments where this Agreement would interfere with operational requirements. Where operational requirements necessitate alternate scheduling of employees, the Board will discuss these arrangements with the Union. ARTICLE HOURS OF WORK Employees may elect to work on one of the following schedules: Option 1: days per week, provided and one quarter (36.25) hours are worked per week Option 2: days per week, provided thirty-six and one quarter (36.25) hours are worked per week Option days in a two (2) week period provided seventy-two and one half (72.5) hours are worked in each two (2) week period. notwithstanding article Appendix all full-time, regular employees electing Option or Option may work within the hours of a.m. to Each working day (Monday through Friday) subject to Article Appendix If Option is chosen, the full-time, regular employee may work between the hours of a.m. to Monday through Thursday and a.m. to on Friday notwithstanding Article Appendix full-time, regular employees regular scheduled work hours shall be within the core hours unless other arrangements are mutually agreed upon with
AFFECTED unit members shall be notified of the purpose of any meeting wherein a supervisor intends to conduct an investigatory interview which might result in discipline to the unit member.
