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PORT OF SEATTLE MEMORANDUM COMMISSION AGENDA Item No. 4e ACTION ITEM Date of Meeting February 9, 2016 DATE: February 2, 2016 TO: Ted Fick, Chief Executive Ofcer ' FROM: David Freiboth, Senior Director Labor Relation%~ SUBJECT: Extension of the Port's Paid Parental Leave Program to Represented Employees ACTION RE UESTED Request Commission authorization for the Chief Executive Ofcer to extend the Port's Paid Parental Leave Program to represented employees via Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with their respective labor representatives. SYNOPSIS The P011 would like to offer its Paid Parental Leave benet to represented employees. Commission approval is needed to authorize CEO to Sign MOUs with unions regarding Parental leave. General Delegation of Authority gave the CEO the authority to execute modications to Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) without Commission approval. Further, Resolution 3704 reserves to the Commission the authority to consider and approve CBAs. The CEO now has the authority only to administer CBAs. BACKGROUND Effective January 1, 2016, the Port provides paid parental leave to non-represented employees who have completed their probationary period. The Port offers four weeks of paid leave to new parents following the birth, adoption or adoption placement, or foster care placement of a child. The time must be taken in one consecutive block and must be completed by the end of the twelfth calendar month following the birth or placement. We value all of our employees, and seek to act as a single, "One Port" organization with a common purpose to achieve the Century Agenda. To that end, the Port intends to extend this benet to represented employees by negotiating agreements with their labor representatives. This leave will be in addition to other paid leave, such as vacation or sick leave, which employees may be entitled to in their respective labor agreements. The four weeks of paid leave will ensure Port employees have time away from work to bond with and care for their new child. It is extremely difcult at this time to pinpoint the exact nancial impact of extending this benet to represented employees. The impact will vary given each employee's role in the COMMISSION AGENDA Ted Pick, Chief Executive Ofcer February 2, 2016 Page 2 of 2 organization. Not all leaves require backll, while others will be covered with overtime. After ' 12 months we will have a more accurate utilization estimate moving forward. Applying the assumptions used by Human Resources for non-represented employees, the estimated annual cost of providing this benet to represented employees is $167,000. This assumption uses an estimate of 29 births or placements per year and an average annual salary for represented employees of $74,556. ATTACHMENTS TO THIS REQUEST 0 Sample MOU 0 Salary and Benets Resolution PREVIOUS COMMISSION ACTIONS OR BRIEFINGS 0 December 8, 2015 Salary and Benets Resolution Final Reading and Commission Approval; 0 November 24, 2015 Salary and Benets Resolution 2nd Reading by Human Resources; 0 November 10, 2015 'Salary and Benets Resolution 1St Reading by Human Resources; and 0 October 27, 2015 Salary, and Benet Resolution Brieng by Human Resources.
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