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Section 1.
Employees, retirees and appointed part-time employees (working at least one-half the regular hours of full time employees in the same title) employed in or retired from any of the titles in the bargaining units set forth in Article II shall be entitled to payments on their behalf to the District Council 37 Health and Security Plan, provided that the City of New York has agreed or agrees to make such payments in such amounts ás shall be determined from time to time by agreement between the City of New York and District Council 37, AFSCIYIE, AFL-CIO.
Section 2.
The Union hereby agrees that the Library and/or its officials and employees, individually and collectively, shall not be liable for any mistakes, error of judgment, embezzlement, defalcation, or any other wrong-doing or misfeasance, whether intentional, negligent or otherwise, or any other act of omission, commission, misfeasance, or malfeasance of the Union or any of its officers, agents or employees in the receipt and/or transmission of payments to the said District Council 37 Health and Security Plan or to the District Council 37 Education Fund, Legal Services Fund or Administrative Employees Benefit Fund hereinafter provided for, and/or in the operation or administration of any of the said Plans or Funds and/or for any failure or omission of the Union for any reason whatsoever, to carry out the terms of any agreement which the Union and the City of New York have made or will make in the future as to payments to be made to the said Plans or Funds on behalf of and for the benefit of all Queens Borough Public Library employees.
Section 3.
The Union hereby further agrees to hold the Library and/or its officials and employees harmless against any claim whatsoever arising out of the receipt and/or transmission of the aforesaid payments and/or in the operation or administration of said Plans or Funds and/or out of the failure or omission of the Union for any reason whatsoever to carry out the terms of any agreement which the Union and the City of New York have made or will make in the future as to payments to be made to the said Plans or Funds.
Section 4.
The Library agrees that certain of its employees shall be entitled to payment of contributions on their behalf to the District Council 37 Education Fund. The employees for whom such contributions shall be paid shall be those in titles of the Library which are the same as the titles of employees of the City of New York for whom the City has agreed or agrees to make contributions to the District Council 37 Education Fund.
The Agreement of the Library covering certain of its employees under this Section shall be subject to the agreement of the City of New York to make such payments in such amounts as shall be determined from time to time by agreement between the City of New York and District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO.
Section 5.
The Union shall be entitled to receive such separate contributions as may be provided in this agreement for welfare, training and legal services benefits as a single contribution. This contribution shall be paid by the Library into a trusteed Administrative Employees Benefit Fund, to be established by the Union and shall be held by the trustees of that fund for the exclusive purpose of providing, through other trusteed funds, welfare, training and legal service benefits for the employees so covered as well as any other benefits as the Library and the Union may agree upon.
Section 6.
The Union may allow the Administrative Employees Benefit Fund to utilize an amount not to exceed ten dollars per employee per year from Welfare Fund contributions to help defray the costs of health insurance and pension counselling for such employees.
This document was last modified on: Friday, January 26, 2001