HPM 10.8 Job Action Plan Flashcards
Incompatible job actions?
Work slowdowns, sick-outs strikes, enforcement speedups, reduced attendance
In the event of a job action, who must be notified, what time frame, and what must the notification include?
Office of Employee relations notifies The Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) daily of the who, what where, when, and why of the situation.
Who determines the course of action to be taken against employees who choose to participate in a strike?
The Office of the Commissioner in conjunction with the Office of Employee Relations (OER) and the Department of Personnel Administration.
An employee is participating in a sick out, after being ordered to provide medical verification, the employee is ordered back to work. Can the employee be ordered to submit to medical exam, who pays for the exam, and does the employee have the right to refuse based upon religious grounds?
Yes, the employee can be ordered to submit to a medical exam, the Department must pay for the exam, and the employee does not have the right to refuse based on religious grounds. Salary SHALL be docked if unsubstantiated.
Upon suspicions of a slowdown action, the Commander shall
Make appraisal of the situation, notify Division, call on-duty personnel into the office in attempt to convince them to perform their full duties.
A group of employees are believed to be writing questionable enforcement documents for the purpose of an enforcement speedup type of job action. As the supervisor, what are you required to do?
Question each Officer as to why he/she took the action, and if inappropriate action was made deliberately, interrogate him/her as per HPM 10.2.
A small group of employees, are picketing on the sidewalk outside an area office. What action must a supervisor take?
Obtain information about the pickets, notify the next level of command (division, ACF, OER), and document the details.
Supervisory interrogations shall occur after which actions?
Strikes and enforcement speedups,
What is the DPA?
Department of Personnel Administration. Now CalHR. The CHP does not have the authority to enter into a written agreement without prior authority by the DPA.
What is a “strike”?
A temporary stoppage of work or a concerted withdrawal from work by employees regarding demands affecting wages, hours, and/or other working conditions.
What is a “sick-out”?
A concerted effort to temporarily withhold services under the guise of illness of the employee or a family member to affect a change in terms and conditions of employment.
What is a “Slowdown”?
An intentional decrease in fulfillment of the functions charged to the CHP to affect a change in the terms and conditions of employment.
What is the suggested supervisory follow-up for a slowdown?
Regularly scheduled checks, interrogations, submission of memorandums and recordation of comments should establish the circumstantial evidence of a concerted slowdown in a short period of time.
What is an “Enforcement Speedup”?
A concerted effort by sworn personnel of the CHP to be overly strict in their enforcement efforts by taking inappropriate enforcement actions.
What is “Picketing”?
Patrolling, usually near the place of employment, by members of an employee organization to publicize the existence of a dispute.
