LABOR AGREEMENT - LABORERS' LOCAL 483 AND PORTLAND PARKS & RECREATION - PROTECTED SICK TIME FOR SEASONAL PARK RANGERS - LETTER OF AGREEMENT
Binding City Policy
BCP-BHR-17.62
PURPOSE
Section 1. The Council finds:
1. The City and the District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU), of which Laborers’ Local 483 (LL483 or Union) is a signatory Union, are parties to a collective bargaining agreement effective July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2017 (the 2013-2017 CBA).
2. On November 19, 2014, City Council ratified a Letter of Agreement between the City on behalf of PP&R and the Union that added all full-time and seasonal employees working in the classification of Park Ranger (Job Code 30000179) at Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) to the existing LL483 bargaining unit under the 2013-2017 CBA (the contract LOA).
3. Ordinance No.185926, approved by City Council on March 13, 2013, authorized changes to the Portland City Code (PCC) to require Protected Sick Time for employees of Portland businesses and employees of the City (the Protected Sick Time Ordinance).
4. PCC 9.01 requires employers to provide employees working within the geographical boundaries of the City with a minimum of one hour of Sick Time for every 30 hours of work performed, and up to a maximum use of 40 hours of Sick Time in a year, unless otherwise allowed by the employer.
5. The contract LOA provides that seasonal Park Rangers may accrue and use paid City Sick Time in accordance with the Protected Sick Time Ordinance.
6. Regular City employees (permanent, temporary, limited duration) accrue sick leave at a higher accrual rate and may carryover all sick leave.
7. Under the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (PERS), the City reports to PERS the accumulated unused sick leave accruals for employees annually. For PERS purposes, the maximum sick leave accrual rate is lowest rate of accrual for any employee who is entitled to sick leave.
8. Because the City has different accrual rates for different employees, the allowed rate for PERS purposes will be based on the lower accrual rate earned by seasonal Park Rangers, which will reduce the accrued and unused sick leave accruals reported to PERS for all regular employees.
9. To avoid this result, the amount of City Sick Time a seasonal Park Ranger may accrue and use during a calendar year will need to be increased.
10. On December 3, 2014, the City on behalf of PP&R entered into a second Letter of Agreement with the Union, Exhibit A attached hereto (the City Sick Time LOA).
11. The City Sick Time LOA provides that seasonal Park Rangers shall accrue City Sick Time at the rate of one hour for every 20 hours of work performed.
12. The City Sick Time LOA further provides that seasonal Park Rangers may carry over into the next calendar year up to 40 hours of unused City Sick Time.
13. The City Sick Time LOA further provides that seasonal Parks Rangers may use any accrued and unused City Sick Time subject to the provisions of the City’s Human Resources Administrative Rules or applicable collective bargaining agreement; usage is no longer limited to 40 hours in a calendar year.
14. Upon ratification by City Council by ordinance, the City Sick Time LOA will be effective retroactive to January 1, 2014.
POLICY
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:
a. The City Sick Time LOA between the City on behalf of PP&R and LL483 attached hereto as Exhibit A is ratified by this Council.
b. This ordinance is binding City policy.
Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists in order to avoid an unnecessary delay in the orderly implementation of the provisions of the City Sick Time LOA; therefore, this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.
Link to Exhibit A - Letter of Agreement (PDF Document, 210 kb)
HISTORY
Emergency Ordinance No. 186938, passed by City Council and effective December 17, 2014.