2025-06-24 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board June 24, 2025 MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: So, that means all the employees have to be trained? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: Blue-collar, white collar— MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: That’s a lot. MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. It’s a lot. It’s a lot of—because it’s making sure that there’s connectivity at all of the worksites and that there’s devices for employees to login, and there’s going to be a lot of training involved in that. CHR. CABANAS: Do the departments have the capability for, let’s say, the blue-collar workers to access the computer to submit a request? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: Vacation, sick leave—they have the capability at the base yards and all of that? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. All of that is being worked on by IT and Finance to get all of that finalized and set up, but they are going to need that capability to do that. CHR. CABANAS: And is there a minimum—I’m assuming there’s a minimum—how can I say it—system requirement—a computer system requirement? MS. TOKIHIRO: It’s actually—it’s Cloud-based. So you could actually—as far, like, a system requirement—people could technically login from your phone. So, it doesn’t require some certain type of computer—it’s, basically, internet access. CHR. CABANAS: Oh, okay. MS. TOKIHIRO: And so, that’s going to make it a little bit easier. But, definitely, a lot of training involved because there are a lot of—even details—like, say, related to someone’s timesheet and at what point the meal kicks it, and when is it over 40 hours versus over eight hours, versus—so all of these collective bargaining rules that’s going to really require a lot of training. Because I’m sure that there is a lot of the employees that may not even be aware of how all those details work—and the system will be programmed to recognize certain information and make those adjustments, but we also have to be able to audit it and make sure that it’s accurate. Page 17