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Wage & Benefit Committee Conversation <br />9/2/2025 <br />Ask: <br />• Wage - 0.5% (verify actual calculation) recoup from last year with latecomer N. St. Paul <br />contract differential + Metro Average change adjustment for 2026. <br /> <br />Ideas & Things to Consider – Discussions of Staff: <br />• Paid Sick Leave & HCSP Conversion – We would appreciate consideration on updating <br />our Paid Sick Leave Payout plan. This would help employees pay for privatized health <br />insurance and medical expenses after their years of service at ERMU. <br />o Anyone that retires from ERMU. <br />o How much is put in after 960 hours are accrued each year. <br />o It takes 10 years of no sick time to get to 960 hours. Most are not going to get <br />there in 10 years. It already has longevity built in for the accrual and conversion <br />for our HCSP. <br /> <br />• On-Call: This is a discussion that keeps coming up each year. We’ve brought this forward <br />over the last handful of years at different times. The thought is to move On-Call to 16 <br />hours per week from 14 hours. An additional hour for each weekend day. The structure <br />of high overtime hours as regular practice seems to be the difference between on-call <br />standardized time between other organizations. Those with lower OT tend to have <br />higher on-call standby time. <br /> <br />• Comp-Time: Each year there tends to be some Comp-time talks amongst staff and one <br />idea is about rolling hours. Not all employees have the same thoughts, but it is an area <br />that some feel could be improved upon, and conversation or ideas may be helpful. <br /> <br />107