Section One. (a) Effective January 14, 2000, the base annual salary for all employees shall be increased by two percent (2%)

(b) Effective June 30, 2000, the base annual salary for all employees shall be increased by three and one-half per cent (3.5%).

(c) Effective June 29, 2001, the base annual salary for all employees shall be increased by three percent (3%).

(d) Effective June 28, 2002, the base annual salary for all employees shall be increased by three percent (3%).

(e) Effective June 27. 2003, the base annual salary for all employees shall be increased by three percent (3%).

(f) Each permanent employee actively employed on the date of approval of this Agreement by the Legislature shall receive a lump sum payment of two hundred dollars ($200.00).

Section Two. Employees will continue to be eligible for and receive annual increments during the term of this Agreement in accordance with existing practice. Effective July 1, 1999 there shall be a tenth step established, which shall be two percent (2%) greater than Step 9. There shall also be established an eleventh step, which is four percent (4%) greater than Step 9.

Section Three. Employees shall continue to be eligible for longevity payments for the life of this Agreement in accordance with existing practice. The longevity schedule in effect on June 30, 1977 shall remain unchanged in dollar amounts during the life of this Agreement and is appended hereto.

Section Four. Any employee who is provisionally promoted shall receive a full promotional increase as if permanently promoted.

Section Five. Workers’ Compensation. (a) Personnel listed below, who exercise general or special powers of arrest, shall be covered by C.G.S. Section 5-142(a) whenever they sustain an injury while making an arrest or in the actual performance of police duties, guard duties, fire duties, inspection duties, while attending or restraining an inmate, or if assaulted in the performance of their duties, whether or not such duties are performed on a full-time basis:

(1) Institutional security personnel and Department of Environmental Protection law enforcement personnel who derive their powers of arrest from C.G.S. Section 29-18;

(2) Department of Environmental Protection

personnel engaged in fire fighting duties;

(3) Institutional firefighters;

(4) Police and fire personnel at Trumbull Airport

(5) Canine control officers injured while making an arrest or while dealing with aberrant animals.

(b) C.G.S. Section 5-142(a) is further clarified to cover bargaining unit employees of any institution or facility of the Department of Mental Health giving care and treatment to persons afflicted with a mental disorder or disease or any institution for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with any mental defect who are injured in the performance of their police or guard duties, whether or not the injury is inflicted by said persons or incurred while attending or restraining such persons.

Section Six. Clothing and Accessories. (a) On or about September 1 of each contract year, each employee in the bargaining unit shall receive $70.00 for the purchase of appropriate shoes. Employees hired on or after March 1 in any contract year shall not be eligible for such payment for that contract year.

(b) On or about December 1 of each contract year plain clothes personnel of a uniform service, including but not limited to, Special Revenue Police, Military Department Officers, Liquor Control Agents, Casino Agents, Tax Enforcement Agents and Enforcement Officers shall receive a clothing allowance of three hundred five dollars ($305).

Section Seven. Home Office Differential. On or about December 1 of each contract year, employees who are required, by the employing agency, to maintain space in their homes as an office and regularly use such space to conduct State business shall receive $675.

The differential shall be increased to $700 effective July 1, 2000 and to $725 effective July 1, 2001.

Said payments shall be proportionately reduced for those employees who are hired or are terminated from employment and use their home as an office for less than the full contract year, (July 1 through June 30).

The State shall pay for telephones where the employing agency requires that the employee have a telephone installed and available for use in State business.

Section Eight. Hazardous Duty Pay. (a) Employees in the Department of Environmental Protection who perform hazardous duty during the hours between dusk and dawn shall receive an additional twenty-five percent (25%) hazardous duty pay for all hours so worked. Said differential shall not be included in base pay, nor shall this differential diminish an Employee’s right to payment for overtime work performed. Employees shall be eligible for such hazardous duty pay between the hours of dusk and dawn while:

(1) Searching for lost persons;

(2) Searching for downed aircraft/operating at aircraft accidents;

OR

(3) Fighting night fires involving structures, boats, vehicles or forest fires.

(b) The State Police Emergency Services Specialist shall receive hazardous duty pay differential of twenty-five percent (25%) for all hours worked in the control, removal and operation at the scene of situations involving explosives and/or hazardous substances. Said differential shall not be included in base pay, nor shall this differential diminish an Employee’s right to payment for overtime work performed.

(c) Department of Environmental Protection personnel assigned to the Portland Depot Sawmill and engaged in the cutting of lumber shall receive an additional hazardous duty premium of $.40 per hour while operating cutting equipment.

Section Nine. Claims. The employer agrees to facilitate within ninety (90) days the expeditious processing of claims for lost or damaged property to the Claims Commissioner.

Eyeglass frames and lenses shall be replaced in kind if possible or by items of equal value. The employer will reimburse an employee for jewelry damaged in the performance of duty up to a maximum of $40.

Section Ten. Liability Insurance. The State shall assume the cost, up to a maximum of $75 per year, for liability (renter’s) insurance for employees living in State housing.

Section Eleven. Indemnification. Protective Services employees who have general or special powers of arrest shall be covered by C.G.S. Section 29-8a and C.G.S. Section 53-39a, subject to the restrictions set forth therein.

Section Twelve. Accidental Death or Dismemberment. The State shall assume the cost of $25,000 accidental death or dismemberment policy for each bargaining unit employee.

Section Thirteen. Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics. (a) The State shall pay an annual skill premium to each employee who is certified as an Emergency Medical Technician B. (EMT-B). Said payment shall amount to $400 for each contract year.

(b) The State shall pay an annual skill premium to each employee who is certified as an Emergency Medical Technician I (EMT-I). Said payment shall amount to $525 for each contract year.

(c) The State shall pay an annual skill premium to each employee who is certified as a Paramedic (EMT-P) and where such training is directly job related (i.e., police, fire, instructors and personnel assigned to rescue details). Said payment shall amount to $3310 for the contract year commencing July 1, 1999. For the contract year commencing July 1, 2000 the payment shall amount to $3600 and for the contract year July 1, 2001 the payment shall amount to $3700. For each contract year beginning July 2000 the annual premium shall be paid in quarterly installments commencing in October.

The premiums of this Section shall not be pyramided. The skill premiums for contract years commencing July 1, 1999 shall be paid on or about December 1, 1999.

Section Fourteen. The firefighter at Bradley International Airport who is assigned as the driver of the Walters CB 3000 Crash Vehicle (or an equivalent replacement vehicle) on any particular shift shall receive an additional $.25 per hour skill differential. Said differential shall not be included in base pay, nor shall this differential diminish an employee’s right to payment for overtime work performed.

Section Fifteen. Effective upon legislative approval of this Agreement, any Protective Services Trainee who has served one (1) full year in such training capacity shall be promoted to his/her target class on a provisional basis, if the failure of the employee to qualify for a permanent promotion is the fault of the Employer.

Section Sixteen. Effective July 1, 1982, any Motor Vehicle Inspector who is assigned to work in an Inspection Lane, on either a permanent or a rotational basis, shall receive a pay differential of $.25 per hour for each full hour of such work assignment. Said differential shall not be included in base pay, nor shall this differential diminish an employee’s right to payment for overtime work performed.

Section Seventeen. When the employer determines that an employee has been over paid, it shall notify the employee of this fact and the reasons therefore. The employer shall arrange to recover such overpayment from the employee over the same period of time in which the employee was overpaid unless the Employer and employee agree to some other arrangements.

In the event the employee contests whether he/she was actually overpaid the employer shall not institute refund procedures until completion of the grievance/arbitration appeal process.

Section Eighteen. Dog handlers shall be paid at a rate of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per hour, for up to one-half (1/2) hour per day, for canine related duties that can not be accomplished during normal working hours.

Section Nineteen. (a) All unit classes shall be remunerated according to the Objective Job Evaluation point to pay grade assignment as provided in Section Four of the Agreement between the State of Connecticut and the State Coalition on Pay Equity.

(b) The following Objective Job Evaluation point to pay grade assignments shall be effective beginning June 23, 1995 and as provide in Section 4 of the Agreement Between The State of Connecticut and the State Coalition On Pay Equity:

Section Twenty-one. Premium for Security at Groton/New London Airport. A skill premium of $.75 per hour for each full hour of work will be provided to Police Officers at Groton/New London Airport for providing firefighting services as well as security services. Such premium shall be treated exclusively as an adder.

Section Twenty-two. On-Call/Standby Pay. For those employees who are, by managerial direction, obligated to (1) be available for service, (2) standby for a call, or (3) carry a response device to provide immediate response or coverage, the sum of $1.00 per hour shall be paid for each hour so assigned. Notwithstanding the duration of any on-call/standby assignment, such compensation shall not exceed $100.00 per employee per week.

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