HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1966 - 0133RESOLUTION I’~O.66-133
RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS
OF COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICTS NOS.1,2,3,5,
6,7,AND 11,OF ORANGE COUNTY,CALIFORNIA,
PROVIDING FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT;AND RESCINDING ALL
RESOLUTIONS PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED IN THIS CONNECTION
The Boards of Directors of County Sanitation Districts Nos.
1,2,3,5,6,7,and 11,of Orange County,California,resolve as
follows:
W}IEREAS,it is the intent of this resolution to put into
operation the recommendations of the Executive Committee and to
incorporate into this resolution all prior resolutions now in
effect relating to rules and regulations relative to conditions of
employment,
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED:
That the following rules and regulations be established to
govern the terms of employment for all persons,except the General
Counsel,employed by the County Sanitation Districts of Orange
County,by and through the Joint Administrative Organization:
WORKING HOURS
Section 1 Eight (8)hours shall constitute a regular day’s
work for all employees.Except as otherwise provided herein,the
official work week of the Districts shall be five (5)working days
of eight (8)hours each.
Section 2 It shall be the duty of the General Manager to
arrange the work schedules so that no employee,except as provided
in Section 3 hereof,shall work more than five (5)days in each
calendar week.However,the General Manager or his designee may
require any employee temporarily to perform service in excess of
fIve (5)days per week or eight (8),hours per day when public
necessity or convenience so require.
Section 3 The provisions of Sections 1 and 2 hereof shall
not apply to those employees occupying permanent full time positions
whose duties require work on a regular rotating shift basis
throughout the year.Such employees shall be designated as shift
employees,and it shall be the duty of the Generaa Manager or his
designee to arrange work schedules so that the average work week
over the period of a year for said shift employees shall be five
(5)days of eight (8)hours each.
OVERTIME
Section ~If,in the judgment of the General Manager or
his designee,work beyond the normal work day and/or work week,or
work on a paid holiday or on a regularly scheduled day off as pro
vided herein,is required of an employee,such work will be
considered overtime service and will be compenBated for as provided
in Section 13 of the Districts’most current Positions and Salaries
resolution.
SectIon 5 Any employee separating from the Districts’
service who has performed overtime service and which overtime
service has riot been compensated for as provided in the Districts’
most current Positions and SalarieB resolution,shall be entitled
to fulipay at his regular rate at time of separation for such over
time service.Any such overtime pay shall be separately Itemized
and paid in a lump sum on the payroll following separation.When
separation is caused by the death of an employee,payment shall be
made to the estate of such employee,or in applicable cases,as
provided by Section 630 of the Probate Code.Nothing In this
section shall be Interpreted as preventing the General Manager
from filling a position vacated by separation immediately following
the last day actually worked by the separated employee.
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Section 6 Management and supervisory personnel who occupy
positions which have a salary or salary range exceeding that set
forth in Section 16 of the Districts’most current Positions and
Salaries resolution,shall not be compensated for overtime as
provided i~i Section 13 thereof.However,the General Manager shall
cause a record to be kept of the accumulated overtime service of
such employees and may grant equivalent time off with full pay at
any time during employment to such employees upon application.
Section 7 No additional employee may be engaged as a
substitute for a regular employee who is on leave of absence with
pay on account of overtime service,it being the intent of this
provision that where persons are allowed time off with pay for
overtime service the work must be carried on without additional
cost or expense.
VACATION
Section 8 Every employee employed after November 30,1966,
in a duly established full time permanent position,who has com
pleted less than three years of service shall be entitled to an
annual paid vacation leave of ten (10)full working days at the
conclusion of each full year of service,dating from the date of
commencement of his service.On the employee’s anniversary date
any unused vacation from the prior year’s accrual shall be auto
matically cancelled.
Section 9 Every employee holding a duly established full
time position who has completed more than three years of full time
service shall be entitled to an annual paid vacation leave of
fifteen (15)full working days,accruable monthly at the rate of
one and one-fourth days per month for each complete calendar month
of service.For such employees,a maximum of five (5)days of un
used vacation time from prior year’s accruals may be carried over;
provided,however,that the maxi.pium total accumulated•vacation time
for any employee at any time shall not exceed twenty (20)working
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days.Any unused aócrued vacation time in excess of twenty (20)
working days,shall be automatically cancelled.
Section 10 Every employee employed in a duly established
full time permanent position on November 30,1966,who has corn
pleted less than three years of full time service,shall be entitled
to an annual paid vacation as provided in Séctiob 9 herepf.
Section 11 Absence because of injury or sickness which is
covered by accumulated sick leave shall not be a bar to the granting
of the annual vacation described in Sections 8,9 and 10 hereof.
The granting of any leave of absence without pay exceeding fifteen
(15)calendar days shall cause the employeets eligibility date for
annual vacation to be postponed a number of days equal to the number
of calendar days the employee is on leave of absence without pay,
less the first fifteen (15)calendar days of such leave.
Section 12 Any employee separating from the Districts’
service who has not taken his unused earned vacation,if any,shall
receive the hourly equivalent of his salary for each hour of unused
earned vacation.
When separation is caused by death of an employee,payment
shall be made to the estate of such employee,or in applicable cases,
as provided by Section 630 of the Probate Code.An employee re
ceiving pay in lieu of unused vacation may not be re-employed by the
County Sanitation Districts in any capacity until a number of work
ing days equal to the number of days paid vacation has elapsed
following the effective date of separation.Nothing in this Section
shall be interpreted as preventing the General Manager from filling
a position vacated by separation immediately following the effective
date of such separation.
Section 13 No employee shall be permitted to work for
compensation for the Districts during the time of his paid vacation,
nor be otherwise compensated for vacation time not taken,except as
provided in Section 12 hereof.
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The General Manager or his designee shall be responsible for
scheduling the vacations of employees in such a.manner as to achieve
the most efficient functioning of the Districts.In any use of
vacation the minimum charge to the employee’s earned vacation shall
be one (1)hour,while additional actual leave over one hour shall
be charged to the nearest full hour to a maximum of the employees
entitlement.
SICK LEAVE
Section ]L~.•Every employee holding a duly established full
time permanent position,whether paid by the month or by the hour,
shall accrue one working day sick leave,with pay,for each full
calendar month of actual continuous service,except that no em
ployee shall earn sick leave credit during a calendar month in which
he is absent without pay more than three working days.
Section 15 Sick leave may be applied only to absence caused
by illness or injury of an employee and may not extend to absence
caused by illness or injury of a member of the employee’s family.
Application of accumulated sick leave to medical and dental office
calls during working hours may be authorized at the discretion of
the General Manager.In any instance involving use of a fraction
of a day’s sick leave,the minimum charge to the employee’s sick
leave account shall be one (1)hour,while additional actual absence
over one hour shall be charged to the nearest full hour.The
General Manager shall be responsible for control of abuse of the
sick leave privilege.The employee may be required to furnish a
certificate issued by a licensed physician or nurse,or other satis
factory evidence of illness.
SICK LEAVE -(Involving Workmen’s Compensation)
Section 16 Whenever any employee is compelled by direction
of his physician to beabsent from duty on account of injury arising
out of and in the course of his employment,he shall receive full
compensation during the first seven (7)calendar days of such
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absence.Thereafter during such absence he may elect to apply pro
rated accrued sick leave to such absence and to receive compensation
therefor in an amount equal to the difference between the compensa
tion to which he is entitled under the Workmen’s Compensation Act
and his regular pay not to exceed the amount of his earned sick
leave.An employee may also elect to use any earned vacation time
and equivalent time off for overtime in like manner after his sick
leave is exhausted.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE -(Emergency)
Section 17 Whenever any person holding a duly established
permanent full time position is compelled to be absent from duty by
reason of the death or critical illness where death appears to be
imminent,of either father,mother,brother,sister,wife,husband,
or child,such person shall be entitled to a maximum of three (3)
working days absence with pay.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE -(Regular)
Section 18 Upon written request approved by the General
Manager,any employee holding a duly established permanent position
may be granted a leave of absence without pay not to exceed one
year,for any of the following reasons:
a)Illness or disability
b)Pregnancy
c)To take a course of study which will increase
the employee’s usefulness on return to his
position
d)For personal reasons acceptable to the
General Manager
A leave of absence must be requested in all instances where
an employee is absent without pay for more than five (5)consecutive
working days.The conditions of each leave of absence shall be de
termined by the General Manager,based upon the Districts’needs and
requirements.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE (Military)
Section 19 Military leave is governed by the provisions of
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the Military and Veterans Code of the State of California,Sections
395 -395.02.
SUSPENSION
Section 20 The General Manager may suspend an employee,
without pay,for a period of time riot to exceed thirty (30)working
days,when in his judgment such disciplinary action will best serve
the Districts’interest.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION
Section 21 The General Manager may require evidence of
good health and freedom from disabling defects,as shown by a re
cent medical examination,as a condition to original employment,or
as a condition to appointment to any position upon return of an
employee from a medical leave of absence,and n~ay periodically
thereafter require further medical examination of employees at the
Districts’expense.Chronic or persistent illness,or a disabling
physical defect not arising out of employment by the Districts,
may be cause for separation from service.
UNIFORMS
Section 22 Employees required to wear uniforms or pro
tective garments shall be provided with regular laundering thereof
at the Districts’expense.
HOLIDAYS
Section 23 The following paid holidays shall be granted to
all employees holding duly established permanent,full time posi
tions:January 1,February 12,February 22,May 30,July 4,
Labor Day,November 11,Thanksgiving Day and December 25.
When a holiday falls on Sunday,the following Monday will
be observed as a holiday.When a holiday falls on a regularly
scheduled day off for an employee who is eligible to receive paid
holidays,the employee shall be entitled to equivalent time off
with pay,provided however,that employees designated as shift
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employees may be compensated therefor as provided in Section 13 of
the Districts’most current Positions and Salaries resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,that the rules and regulations
hereinabove adopted shall become effective December 1,1966.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,that any and all prior resolutions
and motions or portions thereof previously adopted and relating to
rules and regulations relative to conditions of employment are
rescinded and made of no further effect as of December 1,1966.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SS.
COUNTY OF ORANGE
I,FRED A.HARPER,Secretary of the Boards of Directors
of County Sanitation Districts No.1,2,3,5,6,7 and 11,
of Orange County,California,do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing Resolution No.66—133 was regularly passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of said Boards on the 9th day
of November ,1966,by the following vote,to wit:
AYES:Directors Harry H.Harvey (Chairman),Lowell Amo,
Ted Bartlett,Harold Bousman,Leonard Crapo,Norman E.Culver,
A].Forgit,Paul J,Gruber,Lloyd E.Guinrnere,Burton Herbet,Clifton
C.Miller,Harry L.Miller,Rex A.Parks,Llndsley Parsons,Ellis
N.Porter,A.J.Schutte,Robert Schwerdtfeger,Thomas 0.Speer,
Jake 11.Stewart,James Workman and Alton E.Allen
NOES:Directors Richard Bowen and James Hock
ABSENT:Directors Charles H.Long and Paul C.Ikirman
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,I have hereunto set my hand this 9th
day of November ,1966.
Boards of Directors,County Sanitation
Districts Nos.1,2,3,5,6,7 and 11,
of Orange County,California