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THE 1993 FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT:
The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allow eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period. The lean can be taken for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child, the care of a family member with a serious health condition or the employees own serious health condition.
President Clinton signed the Act into law after nearly ten years of lobbing by labor unions, womens rights groups and grass roots organizations. The Purpose of FMLA is to enable employees to more easily balance the obligations of work and family.
The FMLA does not diminish provisions in state or local FMLA lows or in current CWA collective bargaining agreements, which provide more favorable policiesnor does it limit negotiations of greater benefits in the future. We should view FMLA as creating a floor of benefits that can be built upon through colle
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Collective Bargaining Agreement between SBC Ameritech Publishing, INC and CWA
ARTICLE 14 (1) pg. 14
REPRESENTATION:
At any meeting between a representative of the Company and an employee in which discipline (including warnings which are to be recorded in the personnel file, suspension, demotion or dismissal for cause to be announced, a Union representative must be present at the request of the employee.
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Collective Bargaining Agreement between SBC and CWA District 4
February 1, 2001-April 3, 2004
ARTICLE 17.15 pg.44
CALL OUTS:
When an employee is called outside of his/her regularly scheduled shift for immediate reporting, pay will begin with the time called and continue until the employee returns home unless the time worked continues into the employees next scheduled shift. Should the assignment continue into the employees next schedule shift. The employee will only be compensated for the time actually worked and reasonable travel time from his/her residence using the most direct route. A minimum of (2) two hours pay at the overtime rate will be paid unless the call occurs less than (2) two hours before the start of the employees next scheduled shift.
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