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Human Resources Department recommending the Board:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 108-2020 approving the negotiated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the County of El Dorado and the Operating Engineers Local No. 3 representing employees in the Trades and Crafts Bargaining Unit;
2) Authorize the Chair to sign said MOU, noting the MOU will be effective the first full pay period following Union ratification and Board of Supervisors adoption of the MOU; and
3) Direct the Human Resources Department and the Auditor-Controller's Office to administer and implement the MOU provisions.
FUNDING: General Fund, Road Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The term of the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the County of El Dorado (County) and Operating Engineers Local No. 3 (OE3) representing employees in the Trades and Crafts (TC) bargaining unit (Unit), ended on December 31, 2018.
Pursuant to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Government Code sections 3500 et seq.), representatives of OE3 and the County have met and conferred in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment of employees in the TC bargaining unit. The County and OE3 jointly prepared a successor MOU, for the term of January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2021, reflecting agreed revisions to certain terms and conditions. Subject to the provisions in the MOU, those revised terms and conditions with a County cost impact are summarized below, along with the estimated annual cost.
1. Effective the first full pay period following MOU adoption, the County will increase base wages for all employees in the Unit to ensure that the benchmark job classification and internally tied non-benchmark classifications within the Unit are approximately 8% behind the median market average utilized by the County, provided that each classification in the Unit shall receive at least 1% - estimated annual cost of $638,784
2. TC Unit members shall receive two (...
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