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2022-2025 MOU City of Santa Ana & SEIU Full-Time Employees Unit Page 75 <br />B. Union Business Leave <br />In addition to the above time, union officers, worksite leaders, and stewards shall <br />be granted three hundred (300) hours of release time per fiscal year. This leave is <br />cumulative, meaning the total amount of hours allowed each fiscal year is to be <br />shared by all eligible employees in the unit and is not an individual annual allotment <br />of hours for each employee. <br />The purpose of this additional three hundred (300) hours per fiscal year shall be to <br />enable the union officers, worksite leaders, and stewards to participate in union <br />activities which may include conventions, seminars and meetings that are otherwise <br />not covered by this MOU. Such time shall be paid by the Union who will reimburse <br />the City for the hours used by employees of the unit. <br />Such union officers, worksite leaders, or stewards shall provide at least forty-eight <br />(48) hours’ advance notice and make arrangements with their supervisors prior to <br />absenting themselves for such purposes. <br />The union officers, worksite leaders, and stewards shall be required by the City to <br />record and report to their supervisors on the work time spent on Union business. <br />Any unauthorized or unapproved time used by a union officer, worksite leader, or <br />steward to conduct union business shall be charged to that employee’s vacation or <br />comp time leave bank. <br />Time spent by the Union’s Chapter Chair/President, officers worksite leaders, or <br />stewards on Chapter Chair/President’s Leave and/or Union Business Leave, under <br />this section, shall not be considered time worked for computation of overtime <br />according to the FLSA. <br />C. Chapter Chair/President’s Leave <br />1. During the term of this MOU, the City agrees to grant the Union’s Chapter <br />Chair/President (President) half of their work week as paid release time which <br />shall be reimbursed to the City by the Union. Such release time is subject to the <br />following terms and conditions: <br />a. The President will conduct any union business performed during the half of <br />their work week while on release time under this section off the worksite. <br />However, the President may conduct union business on worksites pursuant <br />to Section 17.3 - Worksite Access. <br />b. The Department Director of the President may approve additional time off <br />for the President to attend union seminars and other business on a <br />prescheduled basis. Such additional time off shall be paid for by the Union <br />or deducted from the President’s vacation or compensatory time bank.