SEIU Leadership Reacts to ‘Reform’ Proposals

January 29, 2010

"Like all Michigan families, public employees have shared in the sacrifice and pain of Michigan’s economic crisis. Public employees are on the frontlines, supporting reforms and innovations that save taxpayer dollars. We strongly believe that reforms must be comprehensive, and that means CEOs, banks, big corporations and Lansing politicians must also share in the sacrifice. No one group got Michigan into this budget mess. Everyone must share in the sacrifice to get us out of this crisis and move our state forward."
- Phillip Thompson, SEIU Local 517M Executive Vice President

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Additional information on Plan A and Banked Leave Time

An employee can still participate in Plan A or Plan C. The only difference is that according to the IRS, the employee must deplete their BLT hours before recording the unpaid hours as Plan A or Plan C. For example, if an employee is only working 64 hours and taking 16 hours of Plan A per pay period, the first pay period BLT goes into effect, the employee would enter 64 hours of regular work and 16 hours of Plan A time. Two hours of the 64 will be banked and the remaining 62 hours will be paid. The next pay period, since BLT would have to be depleted before recording Plan A hours, the employee who is taking 16 hours of Plan A would record 64 hours of regular, 2 hours of BLT and 14 hours of Plan A leave. The employee would be paid for 62 of the 64 hours (two hours are banked) and the 2 hours of BLT for a total of 64 hours in the pay period.

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Banked Leave Time

The Banked Leave Program will begin pay period beginning January 24, 2010 at a rate of two hours per pay period. Two hours of pay will be deferred and banked starting on that date. If you are less than full time, the banked leave time will be pro-rated. For those employees working a Plan A schedule, you must use your banked leave time as you accrue it. You may request to reduce your Plan A schedule by two hours so that you remain working the same number of hours.

There has been no notice of any temporary layoff days/furlough days at this time.

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