Common use of Continuous Rotating Shifts Clause in Contracts

Continuous Rotating Shifts. Wherever service requirements impose the necessity for continuous shifts, such shifts shall be rotated between employees concerned, to the end that each employee shall serve his fair share of each shift. However, if any work group elects to fill such shifts without rotating, this practice may be followed by mutual agreement between the Company and the Brotherhood. The length of intervals between regular periodic changes in shifts shall be as arranged by mutual agreement. So far as is practical to do so, there shall be equal division of Saturday and Sundays off duty, and there shall be fair rotation in any job of the desirable and undesirable duties attaching to that job. Schedules showing the regular days and hours to be worked by each employee for a complete cycle of rotation shall be posted at least seven (7) days prior to the effective date. A cycle of rotation shall consist of the period required for each employee to serve a turn on each watch, for example, "Owl," "Day," "P.M.," and "Swing Shift" (if scheduled), and shall be of no less than six (6) weeks' duration. Before posting such schedules, they shall be checked by the Stewards and each Xxxxxxx shall, on request, be furnished with a copy of the schedule applying to the employees in his group. By agreement between the Brotherhood and individual supervisors, schedules may be made up and posted for two or more complete cycles where such procedure is deemed mutually agreeable, but in such instances the Company shall have the privilege of making necessary changes in later cycles without overtime penalties if such changes are posted seven (7) days prior to the beginning of the cycle involved. In any scheduled cycle of rotation, if an employee be required to change his presently established working time, he shall be notified in advance and he shall receive overtime rate of time and one-half for all work done outside his regularly scheduled working hours, for the first three days worked on his new schedule, and straight time thereafter. When, however, an employee takes a permanent job resulting in a promotion, no such overtime payments will be due from the resulting change in schedule. After having completed four or more days on the new schedule, if employees are required, within the cycle of rotation, again to change their working time from that provided in the new schedule, they shall receive time and one-half for the first three days for all work done outside the new schedule just vacated. Where non-rotating shift employees are required to work outside of their regular hours they shall be paid, for such hours as fall outside their regular schedule, time and one-half for the first three days so worked. After having completed four or more days they shall, on return to their regular schedule, receive time and one-half for the hours worked outside the schedule just vacated for the first three days.