Use of current form also effectuates compliance with master agreement. By making stewards report use of official time in writing, less likely a mistake will occur. It will discourage abuse of official time. Same form is used in the Sacremento office without a problem. This supports its position that problem regarding the accountability of stewards in their use of bank time would be prevented.
Most supervisors only require the steward to put down amount of official time used anyway.
Also, its proposal may be more consistent with the parties' master agreement since it does not state that stewards should account for the use of official time in writing. In this regard, we are persuaded that any time savings and enhanced productivity of individual employees which would occur under its proposals are likely to be minimal. In our view, the Union has failed to demonstrate a need to change the current practice. The current method of recording official and bank time appears to be working adequately. While the form the Union wishes to use may reduce the amount spent on the task of recording time, we believe that it is a less accurate system.