§ 20-212. Employee organization activities during scheduled work hours.

No eligible employee may spend scheduled working time (excluding approved break time) away from his/her work assignment and/or work station to participate in employee organization activities, unless the employee obtains his/her supervisor's advance permission to spend that time away from his/her work assignment and/or work station. An eligible employee may spend up to one (1) hour per calendar month of paid scheduled working time in employee organization meetings or in meetings between employee organization representatives and the designated county representative or county elected officials, if the eligible employee has advance permission from his/her supervisor to spend that time away from his/her work assignment and/or work station. With the exception of that one (1) hour per calendar month, normal county and department rules regarding requests to take time off from work (using accrued paid leave or unpaid leave) apply to eligible employees' requests to take time away from their normal work assignments and/or work stations to participate in employee organization activities. The one-hour per calendar month of paid scheduled working time that an eligible employee may spend on certain employee organization activities as described above shall not accumulate if unused during a calendar month, and no payment shall be made for any such time that is not used.

( Ord. No. 13-15 , Pt. I, 10-8-13)