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Approve and adopt a tentative agreement with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Long Term Care Workers , representing In Home Supportive Services Providers for a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the period of March 1, 2012 through December 31, 2013.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Approve and adopt a tentative agreement with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Long Term Care Workers , representing In Home Supportive Services Providers for a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the period of March 1, 2012 through December 31, 2013.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Monterey County Public Authority for In Home Supportive Services and SEIU United Long Term Care Workers, representing the In Home Supportive Services providers reached a tentative agreement on July 19, 2012 for a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the period of March 1, 2012 through December 31, 2013(attached). SEIU has informed the Monterey County Public Authority that the unit membership has approved this tentative agreement.
Pursuant to the agreement, the parties have agreed that the IHSS provider wages will remain at $11.50/hour and effective upon ratification of this agreement, sixty nine cents ($.69) per hour will also be available for a health benefit plan for providers, a .09 cent increase. This will allow for enrollment of up to 475 providers in the health plan based currently estimated hours of service. Furthermore, the MOU includes protection for those providers already enrolled in health benefits who would lose their eligibility if the State imposed an across-the-board reduction in hours. At no time would the protection exceed the county’s savings that would result from the across-the-board reduction.
Additionally the parties agree to meet and confer should the Community First Choice Option plan amendment not be retroactively approved effective December 2011, as is currently budgeted at the Stat...
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