DHFS
Labor Management Minutes
Labor: Stephanie Tust, Mary Seruga, Amy Huss, Steve
Jacobs, Bonnie O’Connell, Kathy Ryder-Walter
Management: Stephanie Nagel, Brian Fangmeier, Veronica Burgos, Stacy Davidsayer, Otis Woods, Pete Grunwald, Aaron Crandel
Old Business:
Assisted
Living Issues: In regards to changing Licensing
Cert. Specialists within BQA to Health Service Specialists, management states
they have taken this off the table as they have concerns about staff coming in
without the necessary qualifications and knowledge.
BQA/Allocation
of employees: Union discussed issues regarding
different reporting requirements for providers in different areas. Management agrees this should be discussed
with the providers. Resolved.
Economic
Support Quality Assurance Specialists PPD: There
is an all staff meeting scheduled on January 27 and 28, 2004 and management
felt this would be a good forum to discuss these issues with staff. Management states they are also looking into
the possibility of rotating a field staff person into the monthly management
meetings. This will be discussed again
in February after the all staff meeting.
Management started taking notes at the management meetings and
supervisors should be distributing these notes to staff. The issues were reviewed with management for
the January discussion. Issues: 20%
return rate, 20% Max for untimely reviews, no standards or timelines for second
party review, inconsistent interpretation, employee responsibility for
management error, stress in the job which creates a higher error rate, training
style, workload when on leave.
Special Needs Adoption
Program Issues: There is no job share agreement with the union at this time. Management stated at last months meeting
that the job share requirements/standards would be emailed to staff. This was never completed. Labor presented concerns about the renewal of
post adoption resource center contracts as there are problems with some of
these centers. Training issues were
resolved. Labor requested that minutes from the management meetings be shared
with all staff as an effort to stop miscommunication.
Professional Development: Arbitration pending. Grievances are still being submitted as they
arise.
Budget/Position
cuts: Northern
Center may possibly lose five PSS positions; no discussions about which
classifications may be affected.
WRC
Issues: Union orientation issue has been
resolved. Training issues have been
resolved. Discussed that all notifications regarding disciplinary and
investigatory meetings need to be sent to the Local President.
New
Business:
No new items.
Management requested a copy of
the agenda for the Local 2748 Educational Conference.
Submitted
by: Amy Huss, Local 2748 Secretary
Next
meeting: 02/16/03 at 10:00 AM in
B145.