Department The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities or any successor state agency.
Guidance This communications protocol will guide all planning, development and implementation of Communications Activities with a view to ensuring efficient, structured, continuous, consistent, and coordinated communications to the Canadian public.
Grievance Commissioner System This is to confirm the discussion of the parties during collective bargaining that they are committed to encouraging early discussion and resolution of labour relations issues at the local level and seek to resolve grievances in a timely and cost efficient manner. To that end, this is to confirm that pursuant to Article 8, the parties agree that the Employer and Union at individual nursing homes may agree to utilize the following process in order to resolve a particular grievance through the utilization of a joint mediation-arbitration procedure:
Department Chairs The release time required to perform the administrative functions of the Department Chair positions shall be deducted from the total workload of the Department Chair with no less than fifty percent (50%) of this release taken from direct instructional duties.
IRS IRS shall mean the Internal Revenue Service.
Department Responsibilities The use of sick leave may properly be denied if these procedures are not followed. Abuse of sick leave on the part of the employee is cause for disciplinary action. Departmental approval of sick leave is a certification of the legitimacy of the sick leave claim. The department head or designee may make reasonable inquiries about employee absences. The department may require medical verification for an absence of three (3) or more working days. The department may also require medical verification for absences of less than three (3) working days for probable cause if the employee had been notified in advance in writing that such verification was necessary. Inquiries may be made in the following ways:
1. Calling the employee's residence telephone number or other contact telephone number provided by the employee if telephone notification was not made in accordance with departmental sick leave call-in guidelines. These inquiries shall be subject to any restrictions imposed by the employee under Section 14.4.a.
2. Obtaining the employee's signature on the Absence/Overtime Record, or on another form established for that purpose, as employee certification of the legitimacy of the claim.
3. Obtaining the employee's written statement regarding the sick leave claim and duration.
4. Requiring the employee to obtain a physician's certificate or verification of the employee's illness, date(s) the employee was incapacitated, and the employee's ability to return to work, as specified above.
5. In absences of an extended nature, requiring the employee to obtain from their physician a statement of progress and anticipated date on which the employee will be able to return to work, as specified above. Department heads are responsible for establishing timekeeping procedures which will insure the submission of a time card covering each employee absence and for operating their respective offices in accordance with these policies and with clarifying regulations issued by the Office of the County Administrator. To help assure uniform policy application, the Director of Human Resources or designated management staff of the County Human Resources Department should be contacted with respect to sick leave determinations about which the department is in doubt.
Statewide HUB Program Statewide Procurement Division Note: In order for State agencies and institutions of higher education (universities) to be credited for utilizing this business as a HUB, they must award payment under the Certificate/VID Number identified above. Agencies, universities and prime contractors are encouraged to verify the company’s HUB certification prior to issuing a notice of award by accessing the Internet (xxxxx://xxxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx/tpasscmblsearch/index.jsp) or by contacting
Department Chairpersons 17.1 In each elementary, middle and senior high school, the need for department chairpersons/team leaders shall be determined by the principal. Each such department chairperson/team leader shall be appointed for one
(1) academic year. If possible, such appointment should be made prior to the end of the preceding academic year. Teachers shall have the right to refuse such appointment. Team leaders will have coordinating and planning functions for their teams and shall serve as liaison between their teams and the principal. They shall not be considered administrative employees.
17.2 When feasible, and after consultation with them, department chairpersons and team leaders will be provided with release time commensurate with the responsibilities assigned to them by their principal.
Scheduling Regulations F-1 Tour schedules shall be posted, except in cases of emergency, two (2) weeks in advance and shall cover a six (6) week period or full-time nurses will be paid premium pay on the first tour of the new schedule. Requests for specific days off are to be submitted, in writing, at least two (2) weeks in advance of posting.
F-2 Request for Tour Changes
F-3 Where there is a change in the schedule from one day shift to another day shift commencing at different start times on the same day, the change will not be considered a change in schedule as defined under Article 14.12. If the nurse is advised of the change and unable to accept it due to extenuating circumstances and the Employer unilaterally changes the start time, premium pay would be applicable if the change is made with insufficient notice as per Article 14.12.
F-4 A full-time nurse may request to work a permanent evening or night shift. Where such request is made the following conditions shall apply:
i) The nurse will submit a written request to the Manager with a copy to the Union.
ii) The Manager will provide a written response to the nurse stating her ability to honour such a request, with the provision that either the nurse or the Manager may discontinue the scheduling arrangement with four (4) weeks written notice in advance of the posted schedule. A copy of such response shall be forwarded to the Union.
iii) The permanent shift arrangement applies to the individual nurse, not to the position and therefore when a nurse vacates such arrangements, said vacant line will revert back to a regular rotating line consistent with the remainder of the master rotation.
iv) A nurse on permanent evening or night shift will twice a year spend two (2) weeks on day shift at a mutually agreeable time. These intervals will be at least three (3) to four (4) months apart.
F-5 Scheduling - 7.5 hours
(a) Full-time
i) Master rotations including an individual nurses position within a master, will not be changed without first informing the nurse and the bargaining unit president and or designate.
ii) A nurse will not be scheduled to work more than seven (7) consecutive days without receiving two (2) consecutive days off or premium payment shall be paid.
iii) The Employer will schedule full-time every second weekend off or premium pay will apply. The Employer will endeavour to schedule a nurse for a day shift prior to the nurse’s weekend off. The Employer agrees that a weekend will be defined as sixty (60) hours from the completion of the Friday tour until the commencement of the Monday tour.
iv) The Employer undertakes to use its best effort consistent with proper management of the Hospital to ensure that days off may be taken consecutively and days off rotated so as to effect an equal distribution among the full-time nurses.
v) The Employer will endeavour as far as reasonably possible to provide some day tours when available.
vi) A nurse shall not be required to commence work within twelve (12) hours of completing a scheduled tour or premium payment shall be paid.
Authority, Etc The execution and delivery by Borrower of this Amendment and the performance by Borrower of all of its agreements and obligations under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as amended hereby, are within the corporate authority of Borrower and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Borrower. With respect to Borrower, the execution and delivery by Borrower of this Amendment does not and will not require any registration with, consent or approval of, or notice to any Person (including any governmental authority).
