2011-01-28 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: So how does this relate to #1, Allow employees to work 10 hours/4 days a week, which is flex time? Do we want to take this out? Do we want to leave it in and explain it, cause I think right now MR. ARMOUR: Probably leave it in but put a note that it needs to be exploratory. MS. NICHOLSON: Well, I think now is the time we want to explore it further. Cause if we keep deferring it we’re going to have to keep coming back. MR. ARMOUR: I’m saying I don’t know what the original intent was and who put it in. MS. NICHOLSON: It came from the Yagong report in some way. MS. PROVALENKO: How does flex time reduce overtime cost though? MS. NICHOLSON: Say if you’re in a 40-hour week and you may work more than eight hours in a day, and then you could take some time off. That’s one way flex time works. You could work only six hours the next day. But it relates back to that 40-hour work week versus an 8-hour day work week. So employees would not have to be at work from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or whatever, but they could flex,depending on their work schedule. MS. PROVALENKO: So maybe item 11 in the same A, could work with this flex time to reduce overtime costs. Cause that’s the 40-hour work week, versus eight hours per day. Those two to me, seem to go hand-in-hand. MS. NICHOLSON: I would agree that they would go hand-in-hand. So can we combine them into one sentence or one item? And it seems like item 11 is sort of the main one. MS. GARSON: Using the flex time more as part of an explanation or rationale to the 40-hour. Your 3 is almost like a subsection of the overtime. MS. PROVALENKO: So that’s what I was thinking. MS. NICHOLSON: So really it’s an explanation. It’s by setting the work week at 40hours a week rather than 8 hours a day, would it allow an employee to flex their work schedules and reduce overtime. MR. MATSUDA: Just allow flex time. MS. NICHOLSON: We’re exploring using it as sort of an explanation on number 11, if that works for everyone. So we’re going to combine 3 and 11 and use part of 3 as a justification. MR. MATSUDA: Rationale. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. Item 4. Is it okay as is? 23