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AGREEMENT

by and between

JEWISH EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL SERVICE

and

JEVS CHAPTER, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY EMPLOYEES,
LOCAL NO. 1739, DISTRICT COUNCIL 47, AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO

THIS AGREEMENT is by and between the JEWISH EMPLOYMENT AND
VOCATIONAL SERVICE and its subsidiaries, including all departments and special projects
(hereinafter referred to as the "Agency" or "JEVS"), and JEVS CHAPTER, COMMUNITY
AND SOCIAL AGENCY EMPLOYEES, LOCAL #1739, DISTRICT COUNCIL 47,
A.F.S.C.M.E., A.F.L.-C.I.O. (hereinafter referred to as the "Union").

ARTICLE1 - RECOGNITION

Section 1

(a)     The Agency herewith recognizes the Union as the sole and exclusive
bargaining agent for, and this Agreement shall be applicable to, all full-time, non-probationary
employees of the Agency, and all non-probationary part-time employees whose hours of
employment average seventeen and one-half (17-½) hours or more per week during any three (3)
month period, excluding certain nurses who perform work, as referred to and described below in
Sections 1(e); certain instructors who perform work as described below in Section 1(c)(ii); all
temporary employees (employed for the maximum period specified in Section 1(d)); relief
workers referred to in Section 1(g); and all supervisors, managerial and confidential employees
and guards, as referred to in Article 1(6), of this Agreement, on all matters of rates of pay, hours
of work, and other conditions of employment.

(b)     As used in the Agreement, the term "employee" refers only to bargaining
unit employees, and the terms "jobs" and "positions" refer only to bargaining unit positions. As
used in this Agreement, the term 'category' refers to the categories listed in Article 10(4) and the
Appendix (Minimum Hiring Schedule), such as Professional Worker A, B, I, II, or III, and the
terms "classification" and "job classification" refer to specific positions within a category (e.g.,
Intake Counselor, Placement Counselor).

(c)     The number of non-union eligible part-time employees will be restricted to
no more than twelve (12) persons throughout all facilities of the Agency. In the event of Agency
program expansion, the number of part-time, non-union eligible employees may be increased to
not more than ten percent (10%) of the union-eligible staff. The following employees shall not
be included in the calculations of the twelve (12) persons or ten percent (10%) (nor shall the
seventeen and one-half (17-½) hour limitation set forth in subsection (a) above be applicable to
them):

 

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