Chief Negotiator
Anthony Hayes
Phone: 562.938.4671
email: arhayes@ucla.edu
Office: LAC M120
Pre-Mediation Settlement Offer Full Text
Term: Contract will be effective July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013
Article VI – Leaves:
- Association Leave
The Association shall have a total of seven (7) five (5) days paid leave annually, (not to be deducted from sick leave) for its representatives to utilize for local, state, or national conferences, or for conducting other business pertinent to Association affairs. These representatives shall be excused from teaching duties upon two (2) days advance notification to the appropriate dean by the Association President. CCA shall provide the Chief Human Resources Officer and all deans with a list of the names of the designated representatives. In accordance with Education Code section 87768.5, if the purpose of the leave provided for in this section is for the purpose of enabling an employee to serve as an elected officer of CCA-LBCC or of any statewide or national public employee organization with which CCA-LBCC is affiliated, the District shall b e reimbursed ( within 10 days of the District ’s certification of payment of compensation to the employee representative) by CCA-LBCC for all compensation paid t o any of its employees on account of the leave.
D. Discretionary Leave
Every faculty member shall be entitled to one (1) day (non-cumulative) per fiscal year at full pay (not to be deducted from sick leave) for any purpose. Faculty members shall also receive two one ( 2 1) additional discretionary day s per fiscal year (a total of three two [ 3 2]) not subtracted from sick leave. Th ese is additional discretionary day s shall only be taken on a day for which the District does not have to pay for a substitute. The appropriate department or school division office must be notified at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the absence.
- Sick Leave
Per the California Education Code, E every faculty member shall be granted ten (10) days/eighty (80) hours sick leave at full pay per school year. Unused sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year. In addition, effective July 1, 201 0 , every faculty member shall be granted one (1) additional sick leave day per year. With respect to this additional day of sick leave, the parties agree that the District will have no responsibility to submit such sick leave to the State Teachers ’ Retirement System (STRS) if it is determined by STRS that this sick leave day is in excess of the maximum limitation for sick leave. In addition, the District is not responsible for ensuring that the additional day of sick leave is creditable or compensation earnable for purposes of retirement.
NEW: Contract Illness Leave
- M. 7. During the term of this Agreement, In addition to the 11 days of sick leave provided for in this section, each faculty member is entitled to use one (1) additional leave day each year entitled “Contract Illness Leave” . This leave is not accruable from year to year , must be used in the year in which it is earned or will be lost on Ju ne 30 of that year and is not subject to STRS service credit. Once this Agreement expires on June 30, 2013, this leave shall not continue to be provided unless the parties specifically agree through subsequent negotiations to continue it .
Sabbaticals (NEW under this section)
Q. 7. The District supports the continuation of sabbaticals. However, the provision of sabbaticals each year is subject to available funding. T he maximum number of sabbatical leaves which will be granted each year will depend upon funds provided in the annual budget. The district will guarantee a minimum of two sabbaticals for 2011-12 to be selected during the 2010-2011 academic year. one Sabbatical each year as a base, b B eginning in the 2012-13 academic year (to be selected in the 2011-12 academic year) the District will approve a minimum of one sabbatical per academic year . and every year thereafter. .
Article VII – Fringe Benefits
6. For the 20 11-12 academic year, the parties agree that the following changes will be made to the Decrement list (options of benefits) for all plans provided to current faculty and retirees: a) $15 Generic/ $25 Brand; Mail Order = 2x retail; b) Office visits $20; c) Emergency Room Co-pay $100 (which is waived if the employee is admitted to the hospital); d) PPO Deductibles of $350 per person and $1050 per family. The parties agree that if these options changes result in a savings to the District of between $480,000 - $520,000, they will be implemented. However, if the preceding options result in a savings of less than $480,000 or more than $520,000, the parties agree that they will meet and negotiate as soon as plan rates for the 2011-12 academic year are available to modify the proposed changes to ensure that they result in a savings of at least $500,000. Once the option changes are made, those are the options available to CCA members unless and until modified by future negotiations. The District will provide to the Association information on savings options, including, but not limited to, retail pharmacy costs, mail order pharmacy, emergency room, in network provider incentives, wellness incentives, as well as any other cost saving options.
- D. 1. Active Employees
- Effective July 1 , 2008, , 2011 faculty members shall pay the following employee contributions towards their medical, dental, mental health and vision insurance coverage: a) Single Party – the dollar amount which is equivalent to three four percent ( 3 4 %) of the District’s cost of the benefits on July 1, 2008 ; b) Employee plus 1 – the dollar amount which is equivalent to five six percent ( 5 6 %) of the District’s cost of the benefits on July 1, 2008 and c) Employee plus two or more dependents - the dollar amount which is equivalent to seven eight percent ( 7 8 %) of the District’s cost of the benefits on July 1, 2008 . The preceding percentages will apply for 2011 -12 based on the 2011-12 plan year ’s rates and for 2012-13 based on the 2012-13 plan year’s rates. At the expiration of this Agreement, any changes in the plan year ’s rates must be negotiated by the parties. Beyond the expiration of this Agreement, u nless the plan year rate is modified as a res ult of the negotiations process , the 2012-13 plan rate s will be used to determine the four, six and eight percent contr i butions described above. Thus, without an affirmative change in the plan rate year, the parties agree that the future year ’s rate will not automatically be applicable in years beyond the expiration of this Agreement.
Article XI Hours of Employment/Service Load
From MOU :
- 6. b. If the District has approved two (2) summer sessions, department heads outside formula who work 177-day assignments shall be allowed to work thirty (30) days beyond their 10-month contract and if the District has approved one (1) summer session, these department heads shall be allowed to work twenty (20) days beyond their 10-month contract (100% load calculated as in XI.K.4. for Learning Resources), and be compensated for those days at contract rate. Any time worked beyond the days mentioned above shall be compensated at the an hourly rate described in schedule 5A. This subsection shall be interpreted to mean that the percentage of department head duties from subdivision (a) above shall apply to summer session days.
Article XII Salary:
- 2. Fiscal Year 2011-12:
- The parties agree that there will be no increase or decrease in salary (including no furloughs) for fiscal year 2011 -12
- 3. Fiscal Year 2012-13
- As addressed in Article XVII, the parties have agreed to reopen negotiations on employee compensation for 2012-13. Thus, Salary for 2012-13 will be determined by subsequent negotiations of the parties.
J. Salary Surveys:
The parties agree that during the term of this A greement (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2013, the following which has been in the parties ’ Agreement in the past will not be utilized . However, the parties agree to keep this in their Agreement if they wish to use a survey in the future:
Article XVII – Reopeners
- by CCA and approval by the District .
C B. The District and CCA-LBCC mutually agree that negotiations will commence in the spring semester, academic year 2008-2009 for a successor Master Agreement. The parties agree that during the 2010-11 academic year, either side may request to meet and confer negotiate over the following to be effective in academic year 2011-12 (the second year of this Agreement): 1) Third Party Complaint Procedure ( to modify and improve as addressed in Appendix D); 2) Employee Evaluations ( as addressed in Article X and Appendices E&F); and 3) I ssues involving Department Heads (as address ed in Article XI, subsection H and Article XIII ) .
- D . The parties agree that during the 2011-12 academic year, either side m ay request to meet and confer negotiate over the following to be effective in academic year 2012-13 (the third year of this Agreement): 1) Compensation ; and 2) any additional article in the Master A greement identi fied by either party. Thus, both sides may identify an article over which they have the right to request to meet and confer.