UC/Teamsters District Council 2
Article 3
DEFINITIONS
A. "Break in service" shall mean any
separation from University employment and pay status except when
a) an employee returns from a layoff of thirty (30) calendar days
or less; b) an employee returns from an approved leave without
pay; c) an employee is recalled from layoff during his/her period
of recall eligibility; or d) an employee is preferentially rehired
during his/her period of recall eligibility.
B
. "Class" is the term that refers to a job
title as designated by a four-digit title code.
C
. "Earning plateau" is the term describing
the maximum salary rate in a class beyond which movement is the
result of a promotion or reclassification. Except for the
Apprentice classes, each class listed in Article 1.B represents
an “earning plateau.”
D
. "Employee" as used in this Agreement shall
refer only to employees within the bargaining unit set forth in
Article 1, Preamble and Recognition.
E
. "Layoff" shall mean a reduction in time
or a full layoff from work.
F
. "Location" shall mean one of the following
three UC Printing Services locations:
The University of California Printing Plant, Berkeley
The University of California Library Bindery, Oakland
If the University assigns employees covered by this Agreement to a location other than those set forth above, such employees shall continue to be covered by this Agreement.
G. "Pay status" shall mean any period
of time for which an employee receives pay for time worked or
for time on paid leave, except terminal vacation or time on extended
military leave.
H. "Probationary employee" shall mean an
employee who is appointed to a regular position who has not completed
the probationary period as defined in Article 6 of this Agreement.
I. "Promotion" shall mean the upward movement
of an employee from one position in a class to a vacant position
in a class with a higher wage rate maximum.
J. "Qualifying service" means a month of
service in the bargaining unit on pay status at one-half (½) time
or more, except that unpaid time on military leave from the University
shall be considered qualifying service. Qualifying service
begins at the start of the employee's probationary period for
regular employment.
K. "Reduction in time" shall mean any involuntary
decrease in the number of hours in an employee's regular, daily
or weekly schedule of work.
L. "Regular employee" shall mean an employee
who is appointed to a regular position, and who has completed
his/her probationary period. For the purposes of this Agreement,
a full time regular employee is one who is regularly scheduled
to work forty (40) hours a week, except those employees in the
Press, Prepress, and Edition Bindery groups at the Berkeley location
whose full time schedule is thirty-seven and one-half (37½) hours
per week.
M. "Regular position" shall mean one which
is established at a fixed or variable percentage of time of at
least fifty percent (50%) or more and is expected to continue
for one (1) year or longer. In addition, a regular position
is a position originally designated as a casual position but is
held by the same incumbent for 12 consecutive months at 50% time
or more of full time. Such “regular” designation shall be effective the first of the month following the
12 consecutive months.
N. "Series" means a specific grouping of
classes related by skill, knowledge and abilities. There
are four series in this Agreement: Press Operator, Prepress Technician,
Edition Bookbinder and Library Bookbinder.
O. "Transfer" shall mean the movement
of an employee to a vacant position with the same wage rate.