Acceptance/Refusal of Work. Employees shall inform dispatch via email as to the method for dispatch to contact them for work. WSF dispatch must give on-call deck employees a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes to respond to a page, text, voice mail or voice message left on a cell/mobile phone, or message or answering machine before marking that employee as failing to respond, which shall constitute a refusal of offered work, unless that employee accepts a shift later that day. If the employee is working onboard a vessel, the Employer will contact the vessel via radio and the captain will direct the employee to contact dispatch within thirty (30) minutes. If the employee does not return the phone call within thirty (30) minutes, the employee shall be considered unavailable and that constitutes a refusal of offered work. This process shall apply to free days; however, no refusal will be recorded on a free day.
Acceptance/Refusal of Work a. Employees shall inform The Employer via email as to the method for the Employer to contact them for work. The Employer must give on-call Information employees a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes to respond to a text, voice mail or voice message left on a message or answering machine before marking that employee as failing to respond, which shall constitute a refusal of offered work, unless that employee accepts work later that day.
b. First (1st) Call – If the employee does not respond within fifteen (15) minutes of the first (1st) call, the Employer shall move on down the list. If the employee does not return the call it shall be refusal number one (1).
c. Second (2nd) and/or Additional Calls – Should the on-call employees not pick up the call placed by the Employer, a message will be left for the employee. The Employer need not observe the fifteen (15) minute timeframe for the remainder of the current day.
d. Employees may not refuse more than two (2) times within a work week and no refusals will be on consecutive days. The Employer has the right to move down the seniority list to find available employees. When the Employer cannot fill positions by calling on-call employees and making offers, they will then have the right to assign an on-call employee to a vacancy. The employee will not have the right to refuse the assignment.
e. When the Employer calls the employee between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM the employee is given fifteen (15) minutes to respond. The employee is informed of all jobs available and may select their choice. Employees not granted fifteen (15) minutes might qualify for bypass. Phone logs determine the facts of Bypass. When the Employer has an Information Department open shift to fill for a morning job (any job before noon [1200 hours] and the Employer is calling after 7:00PM, the Employer will proceed down the list in order of seniority and will not have to wait the fifteen (15) minutes for a response before moving to the next available employee.
