Excluded employees will not get personal holidays to replace two that were cut
After getting some good news from DPA recently -- that excluded employees may take their furlough time in one-hour increments -- the news from our April 7 DPA meet and confer kind of burst our bubble: Contrary to what we had previously been made to understand, excluded employees are not eligible to replace the two holidays the governor cut with floating holidays (which SEIU has negotiated). The holiday takeaways -- Lincoln's birthday and Columbus Day -- are written into the budget bill and cannot be changed except through bargaining or a law change, we were told. Excluded employees can have their furlough reduced and per diem increased -- but only if the bargaining units they're tied to negotiate those provisions. For example, if SIEU's contract is ratified, excluded employees tied to SEIU's bargaining units will get the one-day furlough and the per diem increase but will not get the two holidays or lower health care premiums that SEIU members get. No other bargaining units have yet ratified new contracts.
If you have a question you'd like us to answer, please continue to use the email form at right. Below that form, we've posted the major documents that have been issued pertaining to the furloughs. ACSS wishes the best to all state workers during this crisis. We will continue to keep up with the published furlough news on our home page Daily Blog.
Excluded employees will not get personal holidays to replace two that were cut
After getting some good news from DPA recently -- that excluded employees may take their furlough time in one-hour increments -- the news from our April 7 DPA meet and confer kind of burst our bubble: Contrary to what we had previously been made to understand, excluded employees are not eligible to replace the two holidays the governor cut with floating holidays (which SEIU has negotiated). The holiday takeaways -- Lincoln's birthday and Columbus Day -- are written into the budget bill and cannot be changed except through bargaining or a law change, we were told. Excluded employees can have their furlough reduced and per diem increased -- but only if the bargaining units they're tied to negotiate those provisions. For example, if SIEU's contract is ratified, excluded employees tied to SEIU's bargaining units will get the one-day furlough and the per diem increase but will not get the two holidays or lower health care premiums that SEIU members get. No other bargaining units have yet ratified new contracts.
If you have a question you'd like us to answer, please continue to use the email form at right. Below that form, we've posted the major documents that have been issued pertaining to the furloughs. ACSS wishes the best to all state workers during this crisis. We will continue to keep up with the published furlough news on our home page Daily Blog.