Extra Shift Premium. 1. A nurse will be paid a premium of $15.50 per hour for all hours worked in excess of the number of the nurse's regularly scheduled hours for the week, when such excess hours result from the nurse's working hours on an extra shift(s) of at least four (4) hours each in duration, (three and ½ hours if following the completion of the nurse’s regular shift) at the request of the Medical Center. Employees may split a shift as long as the total shift is covered. The following regularly scheduled hours not worked will also be counted for "hours worked" in the week.
(a.) Hours because of stay home time whether at the request of the Medical Center or nurse.
(b.) Hours placed on call at the request of the Medical Center or nurse due to low census.
(c.) Any time taken as paid time off including but not limited to EIB, PTO, jury duty, bereavement, paid educational days, or mandatory inservice meetings. In determining eligibility for this premium, "hours worked" will not include working as a result of trades.
2. Each nurse shall receive a written confirmation when a shift is grantedstatement signed by the nurse director or staffing coordinator indicating what shift/hours will qualify for the extra shift premium.
3. If extra shift hours qualify for overtime, the extra shift hours will be compensated at the applicable overtime rate, according to applicable federal wage and hour laws.
4. A nurse who is placed on standby call while working on a shift that qualifies for the extra shift premium will be paid the applicable call-back rate as well as the extra shift premium for all hours worked on the extra shift as a result of a call-back.
5. This section replaces all other bonus rates for working extra shifts which may have been in existence before this section's effective date.
Extra Shift Premium. When, at the request of the Department, an employee works a shift where he or she is not scheduled to work, and the employee has taken paid leave during the same work period, that employee shall be eligible to be paid at the premium rate of one and one half times the duty hour rate for time worked on the extra shift even if that employee has not worked over 182 hours in the work period.
Extra Shift Premium. Employees who volunteer to work Employer designated shifts shall receive an Extra Shift Premium six dollars and fifty cents ($6.50) per hour added to their base rate of pay for actual hours worked during the designated shift. An extra shift shall be defined as an employer designated shift that includes work time beyond a Bargaining Unit Employee’s regularly scheduled shift. This does not include shift trades between Employees. The employee will need to complete a written extra shift premium form made available by the Employer. Shifts that qualify for the Extra Shift Premium shall be clearly posted and marked as such. Employer may cancel the bonus shift designation within five (5) calendar days of the scheduled shift if the Employer is able to hire or schedule additional staff to work the shift at a rate lower than what would be paid through the application of an extra shift premium. In order to qualify for the extra shift premium the employee must work her/his next scheduled shift, unless the employee is unable to work due to an excused absence as defined by the Attendance and Punctuality Policy (Appendix D) or was called off by the Employer. Any extra shift premium must be offered to Bargaining unit members first prior to being offered to other employees or agency or Prestige pool employees.
Extra Shift Premium. Full time and part time nurses who agree to work 7 previously unscheduled hours shall be paid their time-and-one-half rate for all extra hours 8 worked, regardless of the total number of hours worked in the work week or workday. The 9 hospital may offer a nurse an additional $10.00 per hour for all extra hours worked to 10 encourage nurses to work hours/shifts that are more difficult to fill. Casual nurses who 11 agree to work previously unscheduled hours, with less than seventy-two hours notice 12 shall be paid one-and-one-half times the nurse’s applicable rate of pay for all extra hours 13 worked, regardless of the total number of hours worked in the work week or work day. 14 All extra shifts shall be so designated on the posted schedule. 1 APPENDIX B – ALTERNATIVE SHIFT SCHEDULES
3 1. This agreement shall cover nurses regularly assigned to twelve (12) hour shifts or 4 ten (10) hour shifts. Where otherwise mutually agreeable to the Hospital and a 2/3 majori- 5 ty of the affected nurses on a nursing unit, a nurse may be scheduled for twelve (12), ten 6 (10), or eight (8) hour shifts, or some combination of such shifts, under the following con- 7 ditions.
9 2. All other terms and conditions of the master Collective Bargaining Agreement shall 10 apply to affected nurses unless explicitly amended by this agreement.
12 3. This agreement shall remain in effect until amended or terminated by the following 13 procedure:
15 a. Should either administration or a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the affected nurses 16 voting by secret ballot wish to terminate this agreement, then the moving party 17 shall give notice to the other at least sixty (60) days prior to its intent to terminate or 18 modify this agreement.
20 b. The parties shall meet at least once in order to attempt to negotiate the terms of
Extra Shift Premium. 2 1. A nurse will be paid a premium of $13.00 per hour for all hours 3 worked in excess of the number of the nurse's regularly scheduled hours for the 4 week, when such excess hours result from the nurse's working hours on an extra 5 shift(s) of at least four (4) hours each in duration, (three and ½ hours if following 6 the completion of the nurse’s regular shift) at the request of the Medical Center.
Extra Shift Premium. 31 Any nurse who commits to extra shifts beyond the nurse's 32 normal FTE commitment will receive a premium of $15.00 per 33 hour for extra shifts committed and approved beyond the 1 nurse’s FTE, provided the nurse works all scheduled shifts 2 during the same workweek, or is placed on HCD by 3 management due to low census. 4 5 If a regular nurse's FTE status is reduced or a regular nurse 6 changes to casual status, the extra shift differential will be 7 payable to the nurse only for extra shifts worked after the 8 completion of thirteen (13) full pay periods following the nurse's 9 FTE reduction or change in status. 10 11 It is recognized that the Hospital will schedule such extra shifts 12 based on management's assessment of patient acuity, 13 available nursing skills, cost of services and seniority in the 14 same manner that low census and HCD are rotated under 15 Section A of Article 12 (full-time/part-time averaging twenty-four
Extra Shift Premium. The Hospital will pay an extra shift premium of $5 per hour to each full-time bargaining unit employee who works an additional shift beyond their regular scheduled shifts in a pay period. For part time and per diem staff such extra shift premium would be paid if the part time or per diem employee had already worked the equivalent of full-time hours in the pay period.
a. Employees who are being paid “on call” or “call-back” are not eligible for the extra shift premium when called back during on call status.
b. For part time and per diem employees, any unscheduled absence, in the same pay period the extra shift is worked, will disqualify the employee from the incentive premium. If an employee is called off during his/her extra shift, they will receive a pro-rated extra shift premium based upon actual number of hours worked on the shift.
Extra Shift Premium. 1. A nurse will be paid a premium of $10.00 $13.00 per hour for all hours worked in excess of the number of the nurse's regularly scheduled hours for the week, when such excess hours result from the nurse's working hours on an extra shift(s) of at least four (4) 7-½ hours each in duration (three and ½ hours if following the completion of the nurse’s regular shift), at the request of the Medical Center. Employees may split a shift as long as the total shift is covered. The following regularly scheduled hours not worked will also be counted for "hours worked" in the week.
a. Hours because of stay home time whether at the request of the Medical Center or nurse. b. Hours placed on call at the request of the Medical Center or nurse due to low census.
Extra Shift Premium. 1. A nurse will be paid a premium of $10.00 per hour for all hours worked in excess of the number of the nurse's regularly scheduled hours for the week, when such excess hours result from the nurse's working hours on an extra shift(s) of at least 7-½ hours each in duration, at the request of the Hospital. Employees may split a shift as long as the total shift is covered. The following regularly scheduled hours not worked will also be counted for "hours worked" in the week.
a. Hours because of stay home time whether at the request of the Hospital or nurse.
b. Hours placed on call at the request of the Hospital or nurse due to low census.
c. Any time taken as paid time off including but not limited to EIB, PTO, jury duty, bereavement, paid educational days, or mandatory inservice meetings. In determining eligibility for this premium, "hours worked" will not include working as a result of trades.
2. Each nurse shall receive a written confirmation statement signed by the nurse director or staffing coordinator indicating what shift/hours will qualify for the extra shift premium.
3. If extra shift hours qualify for overtime, the extra shift hours will be compensated at the applicable overtime rate, according to applicable federal wage and hour laws.
4. A nurse who is placed on standby call while working on a shift that qualifies for the extra shift premium will be paid the applicable call-back rate as well as the extra shift premium for all hours worked on the extra shift as a result of a call-back.
5. This section replaces all other bonus rates for working extra shifts which may have been in existence before this section's effective date. Each nurse is responsible for keeping track of his/her own stay home time and for documenting same on the chart of the department where the nurse is scheduled to work. If a nurse does not keep their own stay home chart current in the department and as a result is asked to stay home in error, the hospital will not be responsible for lost wages. After the determination has been made as to the number of staff needed to work the next shift:
1. The lead or staff nurse determines who is scheduled to work the next shift in the department.
2. If there are more nurses scheduled than are needed, the lead or staff nurse will check the stay home chart for the most recent on call/stay home/or accumulated hours totaling eight.
3. The lead or staff nurse will then determine who will stay home using the following sequence:
A. Agency, unless H...
Extra Shift Premium. 26 Nurses who agree to work previously unscheduled hours (those not included 27 when the schedule is regularly posted) shall be paid a premium of fifteen dollars 28 ($15.00) twenty ($20.00) per hour in addition to all other compensation received 29 for all extra hours worked, regardless of the total number of hours worked in the 30 work week or workday. This premium is intended to encourage nurses to work 31 hours/shifts that are hard to fill. This premium will also be paid to nurses who, 32 when asked, agree to work more than one (1) hour beyond their regular shift 33 when needed to complete the work of that shift. The premium begins at the end 34 of the regular shift. This premium will be paid to nurses who, when asked, agree 1 to work all or part of a new shift not previously scheduled. The premium will begin 2 at the beginning of the new shift. Such nurses may elect to limit the departments 3 that they are available to work during such unscheduled hours and may decline 4 to be placed on-call if not needed to actually work. Nurses who agree to pick up 5 an extra on-call shift will be eligible to receive bonus pay of five dollars ($5.00) 6 per hour above the standbyLCSB/on-call rate. However, the Hospital may, if 7 deemed necessary by nursing leadership, call-off a nurse who has signed up for 8 an Extra Shift Premium, due to low census pursuant to Article 12.7 & 12.8.
