Common use of Extended Tour Implementation and Discontinuation Clause in Contracts

Extended Tour Implementation and Discontinuation. (a) Extended tours shall be introduced into any unit when: i) Seventy percent (70%) of all full-time and regular part-time Employees on the unit, who vote so indicate by secret ballot, and ii) The Hospital agrees to implement the extended tours. Such Agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or arbitrary manner. (b) Extended tours may be discontinued in any unit when: i) Seventy percent (70%) of all full-time and regular part-time Employees, on the unit who vote so indicate by secret ballot, or ii) The Hospital because of: A) adverse effects on patient care, B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary states its intention in writing to discontinue the extended tours in the schedule. (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (b) above, then: i) the Parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the extended tours will be discontinued, affected Employees shall be given sixty (60) days' notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) In this Article J-1, the process by which any secret ballot shall be conducted will be as mutually agreed between the Hospital and the Association.

Extended Tour Implementation and Discontinuation. (a) Extended tours shall be introduced into any unit when: i) Seventy percent (70%) of all full-time and regular part-time Employees on the unit, who vote so indicate by secret ballot, and ii) The Hospital agrees to implement the extended tours. Such Agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or arbitrary manner. (b) Extended tours may be discontinued in any unit when: i) Seventy percent (70%) of all full-time and regular part-time Employees, on the unit who vote so indicate by secret ballot, or ii) The Hospital because of: A) adverse effects on patient care, B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary states its intention in writing to discontinue the extended tours in the schedule. (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (b) above, then: i) the Parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the extended tours will be discontinued, affected Employees shall be given sixty (60) days' notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) In this Article J-1, the process by which any secret ballot shall be conducted will be as mutually agreed between the Hospital and the Association.