1. Sheriff’s Office Uniform Allowance for Clerical Workers: Clerical workers who work in the Sheriff’s Department and are required to wear uniforms shall receive a uniform allowance as specified below:
A. Effective the first full pay period following Board of Supervisors approval of a successor MOU in 2024, an initial payment of nine hundred dollars ($900) shall be made when the worker is hired by or transferred into a Division requiring uniforms.
B. Effective the first full pay period following Board of Supervisors approval of a successor MOU in 2024, a maintenance allowance of seven hundred dollars ($700) shall be made on the employment or transfer anniversary date for current workers. Such payments are made for uniform needs of the preceding year and workers shall make any required purchases to maintain uniforms within thirty (30) days of receipt of payment.
C. In the event the Sheriff’s Department changes its required uniform, the County agrees to meet and confer with the Union concerning such change and the cost of purchasing new uniforms.
2. Mail Machine Premium Pay: Mail Service Drivers assigned to the central mail room as mail machine operators shall receive premium pay at the rate of eight and six tenths’ percent (8.6%) of their salary in addition to all other compensation. Only one (1) Driver may be so assigned at one time.
3. Inventory Management Premium Pay: Storekeepers assigned to inventory management of the Food and Nutrition Services Unit shall receive compensation of six percent (6%) in addition to all other compensation. Only two (2) employees at a time may be so assigned.
4. Safety Shoe Allowance: Effective the first full pay period following Board of Supervisors approval of a successor MOU in 2022, Public Works Technicians who are assigned to perform field work and are required to wear safety shoes while performing such duties shall receive a bi-annual voucher of up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) on each “even” year to cover the cost of such safety shoes, which must meet safety criteria as determined by the department.
5. CLETS Agency Terminal Coordinator Premium Pay: The Sheriff’s Criminal Records Supervisor assigned to and performing the duties of CLETS Agency Terminal Coordinator shall receive premium pay of five percent (5%) in addition to all other compensation. Only two (2) Sheriff’s Criminal Records Supervisors at a time may be so assigned.
6. San Mateo Medical Center Hospital Unit Coordinator Differential: One Hospital Unit Coordinator designated to provide training and lead direction to other Hospital Unit Coordinators at the San Mateo Medical Center shall receive a differential pay of one step (5.74%) lead differential, in addition to all other compensation.
7. Training Differential: Workers assigned in writing to provide training and lead direction, over and above their regular duties as described by their job description, shall receive a differential pay of one step (5.74%) differential, in addition to all other compensation, only for time during which the training and lead direction is provided.
8. Meeting to Discuss Break Coverage: In December 2018, Office Assistants in HSA and representatives of the Department and Employee Relations met to discuss break, lunch and mail coverage. After the December 2018 meeting, discussions regarding break coverage have continued on an as needed basis. The Human Services Agency agrees to have further collaborative discussions with the Union to discuss concerns that arise about the Office Assistant coverage in the Human Services Agency CFS Hotline Unit.