To: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
From: DIANE STRICKFADEN, DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO CONSIDER UNILATERAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY'S LAST, BEST, AND FINAL OFFER TO THE REDONDO BEACH FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATION
RECEIVE PUBLIC INPUT AND CONSIDER ADOPTING BY TITLE ONLY RESOLUTION NO. CC-1910-074 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, IMPOSING THE LAST, BEST AND FINAL OFFER TO THE REDONDO BEACH FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE 3505.7.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
For over a year, the City's labor negotiations team has bargained in good faith with the Redondo Beach Firefighters' Association (RBFA), pursuant to direction by the Mayor and City Council, to establish a successor Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the terms and conditions of employment. The City and RBFA met 14 times between April 2018 and June 2019. On June 11, 2019, the City issued its Last, Best and Final Offer to the Redondo Beach Firefighters' Association, along with a declaration of impasse, which means that the parties were unable to reach an agreement through further negotiations. Specifically, the parties reached impasse regarding the City's proposal to reform overtime pay practices in accordance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Throughout these negotiations, the City proposed to pay overtime "time-and-a-half" based on the FLSA "hours worked" standard. The City utilized the "hours worked" standard for decades prior to agreeing to shift away from the "hours worked" standard in July 2006 - resulting in significant additional overtime costs to the City. Since July 2006, the City's existing practice has been to provide time-and-a-half pay, even in cases where an employee has not worked a full schedule during the work period. What this means is that the existing practice allows for time and a half pay, when an employee is on paid time off, whether due to vacation, sick or othe...
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