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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 30 of 217 and will cease taking deductions when the amount ded ucted would cause the year - to - date total deduction to exceed $5,000. The report will be provided to the Union electronically. Section 6. Responsibilities. a. Employee (1) Completes voluntary deduction election form designating the institution and amount to be regularly withheld. (2) Ensures that the deduction has been initiated and is for the correct amount on his/her leave and earnings statement. b. The Union (1) Verifies employee's eligibility to elect voluntary deduction. (2) Forwards all validated election forms to t he employee's payroll processing center. (3) Promptly notifies the payroll processing center when an employee is no longer eligible to participate in the program. (4) Provides refunds to employees for amounts erroneously deducted. c. Payroll Processing Center (1) Pro mptly processes all voluntary deduction election forms and cancellation requests. (2) Informs employee of any problems with processing the voluntary deduction. (3) Returns to the Union any voluntary deduction forms that cannot be processed. d. Payroll Operations B ranch (1) Ensures voluntary deductions are withheld by the Agency's payroll system and are remitted to the Union. (2) Verifies amounts withheld by Agency's payroll system and remitted to the Union equals the supporting detail report. Section 7. Miscellaneous. a. Employees are eligible to elect or cancel a voluntary deduction to the Union at any time. The election form may be used for both electing or cancelling a voluntary deduction. b. In order of precedence, voluntary deductions for the Union will be taken after U nion dues are deducted, if the employee has a deduction for Union dues. Otherwise, the order of precedence is handled as any other voluntary deduction.

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