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2022-2025 MOU City of Santa Ana & SEIU Full-Time Employees Unit Page 11 <br />continue under the current accrual, eligibility, request and approval <br />requirements. <br />D. It is the intent of the parties that no additional paid time off shall be gained or lost <br />as a result of the implementation of an alternate work schedule. <br />The City reserves the right to abandon alternate work schedules if, in the opinion <br />of the concerned Department Head and the City Manager, the alternate work <br />schedule has not produced the desired results. If this right is exercised, the City and <br />SEIU shall meet and confer in good faith prior to abandoning any of these alternate <br />work schedules. <br />3.4 Personal Hardship <br />Any employee who encounters a personal hardship with their work hours may request an <br />accommodation from their Department Head. A hardship request will be limited to an <br />employee’s authorized hours of work. An accommodation will be considered only after the <br />employee has exhausted all other personal options to resolve the hardship. <br />If the employee is unable to resolve their problem, the employee may request an <br />accommodation from their Department Head by submitting a hardship claim. The <br />Department Head may authorize an accommodation after reviewing said claim or assign a <br />manager to investigate and recommend a resolution of the hardship claim. The manager <br />may recommend one of the following: <br />1. Approve an appropriate flex schedule that does not disrupt the department’s ability <br />to deliver its services or create disruption in the work unit; <br />2. Deny the employee’s proposed solution to resolve the hardship; or <br />3. Reassign the employee to a 5/40 work schedule. <br />The Department Head may accept any one of the manager’s recommendations or advance <br />their own to resolve the hardship. <br />3.5 Water Production Meal Breaks <br />The Water Production staff who are assigned to work an eight (8) hour day shift covering <br />Monday through Friday will be required to take a thirty (30) minute unpaid meal break <br />during the shift.