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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David Twa, County Administrator
Date:	September 19, 2017

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Resolution No. 2017/329 - Teamsters Local 856 Side Letter to Modify Section 2.9 of the MOU

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 09/19/2017

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Jeff Bailey, Labor Manager (925) 335-1017
cc:	Dianne Dinsmore, Human Resources Director

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: September 19, 2017
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ADOPT Resolution No. 2017/329 approving the Side Letter between the County and Teamsters Local 856, to modify Section 2.9 of the Memorandum of Understanding pursuant to AB 119.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This is a change to administrative process and has no direct fiscal impact.

BACKGROUND:

AB 119, which mandates union access to new employee orientations, was passed on June 27, 2017 and took effect immediately. The bill places an affirmative burden on public agencies to immediately begin doing three things:

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

Providing to the union the name, job title, department, work location, work, home, personal cellular telephone number, personal email address, and home address of any new employee within 30 days of hire or by the first pay period of the month following hire (Gov. Code §3558);
Providing to the union the information in #2 every 120 days for all employees(Gov. Code §3558).

Most of the County’s current memoranda of understanding include a procedure for unions to access employees during orientation. Several of our bargaining groups, including Teamsters 856, requested that the County bargain over the structure, time, and manner of access of the union to a new employee orientation. The attached side letter, dated September 6, 2017, is the resulting agreement reached with Teamsters.

The County and Teamsters Local 856 agree to incorporate the side letter of agreement into Section 2.9 – Written Statement for New Employees of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Contra Costa County and Teamsters Local 856.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If the side letter of agreement is not approved, the current process for onboarding new employees will continue until an alternative process is adopted.