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ARTICLE 5. DEFINITIONS 5.1 "EMPLOYEE" means an individual who has been hired by the City, and has successfully passed all required tests and qualifications, and who isemployed on a schedule of at least 40 hours per week and 80 hours per pay period and who is subject to the terms of this agreement. 5.2 "EMPLOYER" refers to the City of Mounds View. 5.3 "DEPARTMENT" refers to the City of Mounds View Department of Public Works. 5.4 "BASE PAY RATE" means an employee's hourly pay rate exclusive of any other special allowances. 5.5 "SENIORITY" means length of continuous service with the CITY for purposes of promotion, transfer, layoff and recall. 5.6 "CALL BACK" means return of an employee to a specified work site to perform assigned duties at the express authorization of the CITY at a time other than an assigned shift. An extension of or an early report to an assigned shift is not a call back. 5.7 "STANDBY DUTY" means that an EMPLOYEE is assigned to specific hours outside the normal workday/workweek shift during which the EMPLOYEE must remain available to be reached by telephone and be ready toimmediately return to work for call back purposes typically within 45 minutes, or less, of call back orders. ARTICLE 6. SAVINGS CLAUSE This AGREEMENT is subject to the laws of the United States, the State of Minnesota, and the CITY. In the event any provision of this AGREEMENT shall be held to be contrary to law by a court of competent jurisdiction from whose final judgement or decree no appeal has been taken within the time provided, such provision shall be voided. All other provisions of this AGREEMENT shall continue in full force and effect. The voided provision may be renegotiated at the request of either party. ARTICLE 7. WORK SCHEDULE 7.1 The sole authority for work schedules is the CITY. The normal workday for an EMPLOYEE shall be eight (8) hours, and the normal workweek shall be forty (40) hours. The normal work shift for the EMPLOYEES will be 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Hours per day and days of the week may be varied if mutually agreed between the CITY and the EMPLOYEE. The CITY will not prevent the EMPLOYEE from working up to 80 hours in any given payroll period, except with two (2) weeks advanced notice. The EMPLOYEES may collectively suggest alternatives for proposed reductions in hours. 7.2 Service to the public may require the establishment of regular shifts for some EMPLOYEES on a daily, weekly, seasonal or annual basis other than the normal work shift. The CITY will give seven (7) calendar days advance notice to the EMPLOYEES affected by the establishment of workdays different from the 4