By
NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. —
The Hutchinson City Council approved the latest agreement between it and 125 of its employees on Tuesday.
"The City revised its after hours callback proposal to have that start at 5 p.m., rather than two hours after their shift," said HR director Tom Sanders. "Also, we proposed that the holiday callback pay actually be applied on the actual holiday, rather than the day the city recognized it."
The union vote was on Feb. 8 and it received a strong majority.
"The most noteworthy modified language in the contract was in Article 20," Sanders said. "There's a new Appendix E, which lists the job classifications that are subject to a 30-minute response time. Those are all Public Works jobs and they were kind of driven by the critical need to get back in time to address whatever issues are coming up. There were six employees that are kind of on the border of living outside that 30-minute response time. We agreed with the union to grandfather those folks."
For all the SEIU covered jobs, their wage scale movement is going to be 2%, with a merit matrix pool with 4% increases. The agreement was approved by the council unanimously.