g. To create job specifications and to revise existing job specifications as deemed
necessary.
The City shall have the right, without limitation, to determine what department and what
employees of the City, if any, shall be designated as “First Responder.” In the event that
the City decides to remove First Responder duties from police officers, the City shall give
written notice to the Union and the City shall negotiate with the Union over the impact, if
any, of its decision. If the City decides to remove First Responder duties from the Police
Department, the City shall not lay off any employee as a result of that decision.
The City shall have the right, without limitation, to transfer work that may be performed
by civilians from bargaining unit employees to civilian employees or subcontractors in
the following areas: communications center/dispatching, records, meter work, animal
control, forensic laboratory, property and evidence, quartermaster, and traffic signal
maintenance. If the City intends to transfer work to civilians, the City shall give written
notice to the Union and the City shall negotiate with the Union over the impact, if any, of
its decision. Further, if this work is transferred to employees in other City bargaining
units, the City shall retain the right to use police officers in light duty or relief work in the
civilian positions.
Section 2. No employee shall engage in any ongoing activity of a volunteer emergency
nature which is known to have caused heart and hypertension problems as covered under
Sections 7-314a 7-433c of the Connecticut General Statutes. No employee shall engage
in any ongoing activities of a paid or career emergency nature which are known to have
caused heart and hypertension problems as covered under Sections 7-314a and 7-433c of
the Connecticut General Statutes, without the prior agreement of the two (2)
municipalities involved. This provision shall not reduce the benefits to the Waterbury
Police Department employee. This provision shall not apply to any activity in the
employ of the City of Waterbury. The City shall provide forms for all new hires to
indicate their compliance with this provision.
Section 3(a). No Department member shall be required to take a polygraph examination.
Section 3(b). Upon request of an employee, a Union Executive Board Member shall be
present when such employee is questioned by the Superintendent, or any investigating
authority, providing such questioning may result in disciplinary action.
Section 3(c). In the event any civil action for damages is brought against an employee
hereunder individually, and the City is not made a party to any such action, the City,
through the Corporation Counsel's office, reserves the right to appear for, and defend, the
said employee (hereinafter called the defendant). If the City's Corporation Counsel's
office does not appear for the defendant, then the City will pay reasonable attorney's fees
(as per the then-current minimum fee schedule of the Waterbury Bar Association) for an
attorney selected by the defendant to represent him. If the defendant hereunder is found
liable and a judgment for damages is rendered against him, the City obligates itself to pay
such damages and reasonable counsel fees for the defendant, as aforesaid, providing the
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