"Groundbreaking Labor Contract Ratified October 19, 2004"

City and Local Union 1033 ratify historic labor contract!

Contract Highlights:

• Allows Departments to re-organize
• Allows for re-deployment of the workforce
• Allows for layoff to address lack of work/lack of funding
• Vacancies filled by minimum qualifications and seniority based on update of all City job descriptions
• Allows for re-assignment of employees with less than 5 years of seniority or less
• Provides departments the option to utilize flex hours
• Employees can be moved to interior cooler locations when the downtown temperature reaches 90 degrees instead of going home
• Implementation of "first-ever" Apprentice Program
• Floating Holiday now replaces RI Indepedence Day which effectively shut down City services when all other municipalities were open
• Number of Comp Time hours employees are able to accrue has been increased giving departments greater flexibility
• For the first time in history, employees will share in the cost of health insurance
• Healthcare plan for new hires has been changed to an HMO for the first time
• Retirees will pay co-share at the same rate as last day worked
• Fair wage increases over three years
• Levelling of City Public Fund Contribution

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