Los Angeles Daily News contract

This contract is made this September 2, 2005, between the Daily News of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Daily News Publishing Company), and the Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO - The Newspaper Guild.

ARTICLE 5 - INFORMATION

5.1 The Employer shall supply the Guild on request with a list containing the following Information for each employee.

(a) Name, address, telephone number, gender, minority group, date of birth, and Social Security number. (b) Date of hiring. (c) Classification (d) Experience rating and experience anniversary date. (e) Salary

5.2 The Employer shall notify the Guild in writing once per month of:

(a) Merit increases granted by name of the employee, previous wage, individual amount, resulting new salary, and effective date. (b) Step-up increases paid by name of the employee, individual amount, resulting new salary, and effective date. (c) Changes in classification, salary changes by reason thereof, and effective date. (d) Resignations, retirements, and deaths and other revisions in the data listed in Section 5.l, and effective dates. (e) Job postings.

5.3 Within one month after the hiring of a new employee, the Employer shall furnish the Guild in writing with the data specified in Section 1 for each new employee.

5.4 The Employer shall furnish to the employee a copy of any criticism, commendation, appraisal or rating or of such employee's performance in the employee's job or any other comment or notation regarding the employee simultaneously with its being placed in the employee's personnel file. The employee shall be allowed to place in such a file a response to anything contained therein which such employee deems to be adverse. Upon request and in the presence and agreement of the employee the Guild may examine the personnel file of the employee at a mutually convenient time, provided that the Employer may impose a reasonable charge for copying where there are multiple or burdensome requests.

5.5 The Guild's non-employee representatives shall have access to the premises of the Employer: but shall not interfere with the operation of the paper. Upon entering the premises, the Guild representative must check in with building security and comply with building regulation regarding access of non-employees. Discussions with employees will be conducted on non-work time away from work areas unless requested by the Guild and allowed by the Editor.

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