Commitment Shifts. Full-time employees working the ‘4 on 5 off’ extended tour schedule shall be scheduled for an additional three (3) eleven and one-quarter (11.25) hour tours (except in the areas where there are seven and one-half (7.5) hour tours available, employees will be scheduled an additional four (4) seven and one-half (7.5) hour tours). These additional shifts will be scheduled by the Hospital, during an employee’s five (5) days off, in each calendar year and will be paid at the employee’s regular straight time hourly rate of pay, regardless of any local or central provision that would provide for premium pay. These additional shifts will not be scheduled on weekends unless mutually agreeable with the employee. Employees working the “4 on 5 off” schedule with the additional tours set out in this paragraph, are considered to be full-time, as defined in the central provisions. Additional shifts will not be scheduled as a fifth (5th) consecutive shift unless mutually agreeable by the Nurse. It is understood that a scheduled commitment tour as noted in the Article cannot be taken as a vacation day. It is understood that job share lines and temporary full-time lines will be scheduled for the additional tours outlined above.
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