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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 6 of 217 b. Three (3) Regions will receive twenty - four (24) hours per pay period. c. Three (3) Regions will receive sixteen (16) hours per pay period. Within thirty (30) days of the signing of this Agreement, the Union at the national lev el will provide written notification to the Agency as to the distribution of the ARVP official time for the life of this Agreement. The official time granted under this Section 3 for use by ARVP may not be delegated. Within thirty (30) days of the signing of this Agreement, the Union at each of the regional levels will provide written notification to the Agency of up to seven (7) specifically identified Union representatives eligible to be delegated official time under this Article. Any change to that list of designees must be made prior to the pay period in which the time will be delegated. The official time granted under this Section 3 may not be delegated to other Union representatives. Section 4. Upon completion of a period of LWOP granted under Section 1 of this Article, the Union official shall be returned to duty at the facility to which he/she was assigned prior to his/her assuming LWOP status. In the event there is a reduction - in - force at that facility while the Union official is in a LWOP status, th e Union official's future duty status and duty location shall be determined in accordance with Article 47 of this Agreement. By mutual agreement between the Union official and his/her employing ATO Service Area official/AFSIAG Manager, he/she may be return ed to a duty station other than the duty station to which he/she was assigned prior to his/her assuming LWOP status. Section 5. Upon written notice to the Agency that need for LWOP granted under Section 1 of this Article has ended, Union officials shall be permitted to return to duty prior to the termination date of their LWOP status. Such request for return to duty shall be certified by the National Office of the Union. Section 6. An employee who is placed on LWOP while acting in an official capacity on be half of the Union shall be entitled to all such continued benefits, including participation in the Federal retirement program, as provided in applicable laws and regulations. Section 7. Basic pay of national and regional Union officials who are elected or appointed to serve in an official capacity as a representative of the Union, and who have been granted LWOP under this Article, shall be set as though the employee never left the applicable pay band of their assigned facility of record, accruing all increa ses to which he/she would have been entitled. ARTICLE 4 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS Section 1. Each employee of the bargaining unit has the right, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal, to form, join and assist the Union or to refrain from any such activity , and each employee shall be protected in the exercise of this right. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the right to assist the Union extends to participation in the management of the Union and acting for the U nion in the capacity of Union representative, including presentation of its views to officials of the Executive Branch, the Congress, or other appropriate authority. The Agency shall take the action required to assure that employees in the bargaining unit are apprised of their rights under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and that no interference, restraint, coercion, or discrimination is practiced within the Agency to encourage or discourage membership in the Union.

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