Common use of Hold Downs Clause in Contracts

Hold Downs. 1. For the purpose of this Agreement the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job or new bid assignment that is open for a full week (Sunday through Saturday), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids shall be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on the Friday prior to the effective date of the hold down. Bids shall be awarded on a seniority basis. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced with the active extraboard for the hold down week. The extraboard operator will automatically receive the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following Friday. Any additional hold down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon will be posted as "late posting" and will be available for Friday's hold down bid. All hold downs become effective on the first day of the following work week. 4. Hold down bids will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at the beginning of the next pay week. In the interim the operator will be assigned to the extraboard with the operator receiving their regular bid days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a hold down operator, they shall resume their bid assignment.

Hold Downs. Hold downs will be posted for full time runs only. Extra Board people desiring to bid on a Hold Down must be available for the duration of the Hold Down. If a regular Operator elects to do an extra piece of work for the duration of the bid and then goes on vacation, that piece will be posted along with the regular bid for the Hold Down period and the Extra Board Operator assigned will work as the regular Operator. Forced bids/Open Runs: If the open run that is to be forced is an AM run, the least senior Operator available on the AM board will be assigned that run. If the open run that is to be forced is an PM run, the least senior Operator available on the PM board will be assigned that run. Sick-out Hold Downs will be posted the Sunday after an employee has been on Sick-out a week and will be for the duration of the Sick-out. Should an employee take individual days such as vacation days or incentive hours for a consecutive week, the Company shall post this as a hold down. Should the employee choose to cancel any of the individual days that are posted as a hold down, they must do this before the hold down is taken down by 3:00 P.M. on Wednesday. Any slot not filled will be run off the Extra Board. All specials when posted shall have a posted sign on-time and unless made a part of the daily assignment will have a guarantee of four hours. To ensure run coverage, employees who are off sick must call in one (1) hour before their report time for the first two (2) days. For All Extra Board Operators shall provide a telephone number where they may be contacted by Dispatch. When an Extra Board Operator is released from duty after an assignment, his work day will not be considered completed unless informed of such by the Dispatcher. This provision does not apply to split run assignments. An Extra Board Operator must be given at least eight (8) hours off duty between daily assignments, but has the option of taking ten (10) hours. No employee will be allowed to work more than fifteen hours in one day. Extra Board Operators that have Sunday off will get the holiday off just as the Operator bidding regular runs with Sunday off. The mandatory turnaround from one day’s assignment to the next will be a mandatory eight (8) hour turnaround - ten (10) hours optional. This does not change the mandatory ten (10) hour turnaround between regular runs as bid on at each general bid date. Each Operator will make the decision whether he wants to return to work after eight (8) hours off or ten (10) hours off. Dispatch must be notified after work shift over the eight (8) - ten (10) hour limit. If the Extra Board assignments are posted and an operator was missed due to Dispatch error that operator will be paid for hours he would have received. Only one instance of run around can be filed for each day’s assignment. When an operator is assigned overtime work on the Extra Board, his/her card will rotate to the back of the list. This is the only time their card will rotate. An operator shall have the ability to specifically choose “A.M. only” or “P.M. only” shifts for the purpose of this Agreement over-time for the weekends. Should an operator choose to work an “A.M. only” shift and a P.M. shift is available at the time of distribution of runs, the next available operator shall be used. When the next A.M. run is available, the operator who was bypassed for “A.M. only” shall be assigned the A.M. run (or standby). If at the end of the distribution of runs an operator who has chosen “A.M. only” or “P.M. only” has not been chosen because of their selection of “A.M. only” or “P.M. only” shifts they shall be bypassed. Once the rotation is completed for the day an operator who has been bypassed shall not be “picked up” the following definitions week. Once an operator pulls his card for “AM only” or “PM only” they will have pulled their card for the rest of the bid and shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job not be able to put their card back in for the rest of the bid. “A.M. only” or new bid assignment “P.M. only” choices shall not apply to holidays. If Dispatch finds it requires additional operators they will begin calling, starting with the first operator not placed on posted overtime and continuing down. Whether these operators are reached and accept or decline the overtime or are not reached, their card will not rotate. It will stay in the rotation until the operator receives posted overtime in his turn. This will ensure that is open for a full week (Sunday through Saturday)no operator will miss their chance at overtime, except for jobs that while allowing the Company to cover unexpected shortages of operators. Operators who cannot be reached by phone are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids shall be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on the Friday prior to the effective date of the hold down. Bids shall be awarded on a seniority basis. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced with the active extraboard for the hold down week. The extraboard operator will automatically receive the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold downrun around pay. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following Friday. Any additional hold down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon will be posted as "late posting" and will be available for Friday's hold down bid. All hold downs become effective on the first day of the following work week. 4. Hold down bids will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at the beginning of the next pay week. In the interim the operator will be assigned to the extraboard with the operator receiving their regular bid days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a hold down operator, they shall resume their bid assignment.

Hold Downs. 1Hold-downs consist of temporary vacancies due to vacations and other leaves. For Hold-downs will be subject to bid by all extraboard operators at the purpose location of this Agreement the temporary vacancy. Temporary vacancies will be available for bid as hold-downs only when there are five or more known working days included in the hold-down period. Hold-downs will be available for bid each week beginning on Thursday until they are awarded the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job Thursday at 12:01 p.m., Central Time. Hold-downs will be posted in the online bidding system. Bidding may be adjusted by up to two days if the closing date will fall on a holiday. The regular runs of operators booking off sick or new bid assignment that is open for on Workers’ Compensation, Thursday through the following Wednesday (a full week (Sunday through Saturdayseven-day period), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids shall be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on the Friday prior to the effective date of the hold down. Bids shall be awarded on a seniority basis. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced with the active extraboard for the hold down week. The extraboard operator will automatically receive the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following FridayThursday. Any additional hold Operators must qualify themselves to work the hold-down. Qualified includes, but is not limited to, proper licenses, passports, bilingual skills and knowledge of the route bid. Operators must indicate whether they will take any scheduled days off immediately at the end of the hold- down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon at the time they bid. Hold-downs will be posted as "late posting" awarded to the senior qualified active extraboard operator. To be considered active, operators must be on the extraboard available for call, be on assignment, or on approved time off at the time the hold-down is awarded. Operators who have missed out, booked off sick, booked off fatigued, are on Workers’ Compensation, or are on any other type of leave, at the time the hold-down is awarded will not be awarded the hold-down. If the most senior operator bidding a hold-down is booked off indefinitely, or known to be unavailable for the entire period of the hold-down, the hold-down will not be awarded to that operator. If a hold- down is not bid, it may be assigned to the junior operator on that board or may, at the Company’s discretion, be worked off the extraboard. Successful bidders of a hold-down will take the first outbound trip at the home location with a signon time nine hours or more after the hold-down is awarded, provided they are available and have sufficient rest. Such operators will be available removed from the board nine hours before the signon time of the run. Successful bidders out on an assignment at the time they should have been removed from the board must complete their assignment and pick up the hold-down at their home location, after they have secured their rest. Earnings guarantee will not apply. Operators called for Friday's hold an extraboard assignment and instructed to report 12 hours or less before the report time of the hold-down bidassignment may, at the time of the call, decline to report for the extraboard assignment if sufficient operators are available. All hold downs become effective Operators who decline such assignments will be removed from the board and placed on the hold-down at that time. If sufficient operators are not available, the assignment must be accepted. If such operator is unable to pull the first trip of the hold-down, the operator will be paid the greater of the first day of the following hold-down or the work week. 4performed. Hold Operators working hold-downs of driver instructors, who temporarily return to their regular runs from instructor duties, may elect to return to their hold-downs provided the driver instructors are scheduled to work five days or less (regular assigned work days) on their regular run before returning to instructor duties. Hold-down bids operators must be informed of the date they can return to the hold-down and must elect at the time they are notified, whether or not they wish to return to the hold-down. Hold-down operators electing to resume the hold-down will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by placed onto the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at without hold-down bidding rights during the beginning of time the next pay week. In the interim the operator will be assigned to the extraboard with the operator receiving driver instructors are working their regular bid days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a hold down operator, they shall resume their bid assignmentrun.

Hold Downs. 1. For the purpose of this Agreement the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job or new bid assignment that is open run held by a full-time operator will be posted for a full week (Sunday through Saturday), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator , if: A. The run is not eligible worked off the extra board for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. five (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.)5) or more workdays. B. The vacancy is known to be of five (5) or more workdays. 2. Extraboard operators bidding Vacancies qualifying for hold downs may will be posted for bid by proxy for an available hold downat 10:00 A.M. on Monday and awarded at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, to be effective the following Sunday. Bids No additions or corrections shall be submitted no later than 4:00 made after 5:30 PM on the Friday prior Monday to the effective date list of hold downs posted. If no bid is received, the hold down. Bids shall work will be awarded operated on a seniority basisdaily basis off the extra board where the run originates. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked Operators will not be balanced with the active extraboard for awarded hold downs if the hold down weekstarts while the operator is on vacation. The extraboard operator will automatically receive Other than during pre-shake-up bidding, all operators new to extra board must have worked one (1) day on the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered board prior to bidding a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available Operators alleging incorrect hold down assignments must file a written protest with a Dispatcher or Dispatch Clerk before 4:00 PM on the Friday following the awards. If there is no timely protest, the awards will stand. Indisputable errors will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM corrected immediately and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following FridayDistrict will notify all affected operators. Any additional If a dispute arises, the parties agree to meet as soon as possible to effect a solution. 4. In the event a hold down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon materializes at a point away from a Division Extra Board, the hold down will be advertised and posted as "late posting" and for bid at the Division Point nearest to the origin point of the hold down. The senior operator bidding will be available awarded the hold down. A successful bidder who is awarded such an assignment will be paid an additional one (1) hour pay, per day, for Friday's hold down bidthe miscellaneous travel expenses over and above his or her run rate. All hold downs become effective on Payment will commence from the first day of the following work week. 4assignment and end upon conclusion of the last day of operation. Hold If no bid is received, the hold down bids will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for assigned in the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by the extraboard by way of daily work assignmentssame manner as referred to in paragraph 2 above. 5. An Operators returning to runs that have been worked as hold downs must give sufficient notification to the District in order to allow District representatives to contact the hold down operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at and inform that operator that the beginning of the next pay weekhold down is terminating. In the interim the The hold down operator will be assigned notified of the termination no later than completion of service on a day prior to the extraboard anticipated return to work. An operator on a TFN hold down, absent for any reason on a regularly scheduled workday, shall be responsible for checking with the dispatcher for any change of status of that TFN hold down prior to returning to work. 6. If a change of status occurs after the awarding of hold down, the operator receiving their regular bid days off. In on the event assigned hold down returns to extra board and the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a ’s days off remain the same as the hold down operatorfor the remainder of that calendar week. If the operator whose run was on a TFN hold down does not return to work, they the following shall resume their bid assignmentoccur: 1) Run rotates on the board. 2) Run is re-posted.

Hold Downs. 1Hold-downs consist of temporary vacancies due to vacations and other leaves. For Hold-downs will be subject to bid by all extraboard operators at the purpose location of this Agreement the temporary vacancy. Temporary vacancies will be available for bid as hold-downs only when there are five or more known working days included in the hold-down period. Hold-downs will be available for bid each week beginning on Thursday until they are awarded the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job Thursday at 12:01 p.m., Central Time. Hold-downs will be posted in the online bidding system. Bidding may be adjusted by up to two days if the closing date will fall on a holiday. The regular runs of operators booking off sick or new bid assignment that is open for on Workers’ Compensation, Thursday through the following Wednesday (a full week (Sunday through Saturdayseven-day period), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids shall be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on the Friday prior to the effective date of the hold down. Bids shall be awarded on a seniority basis. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced with the active extraboard for the hold down week. The extraboard operator will automatically receive the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following FridayThursday. Any additional hold Operators must qualify themselves to work the hold-down. Qualified includes, but is not limited to, proper licenses, passports and knowledge of the route bid. Operators must indicate whether they will take any scheduled days off immediately at the end of the hold-down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon at the time they bid. Hold-downs will be posted as "late posting" awarded to the senior qualified active extraboard operator. To be considered active, operators must be on the extraboard available for call, be on assignment, or on approved time off at the time the hold-down is awarded. Operators who have missed out, booked off sick, booked off fatigued, are on Workers’ Compensation, or are on any other type of leave, at the time the hold-down is awarded, will not be awarded the hold-down. If the most senior operator bidding a hold-down is booked off indefinitely, or known to be unavailable for the entire period of the hold-down, the hold-down will not be awarded to that operator. If a hold-down is not bid, it may be assigned to the junior operator on that board or may, at the Company’s discretion, be worked off the extraboard. Successful bidders of a hold-down will take the first outbound trip at the home location with a signon time nine hours or more after the hold-down is awarded, provided they are available and have sufficient rest. Such operators will be available removed from the board nine hours before the signon time of the run. Successful bidders out on an assignment at the time they should have been removed from the board must complete their assignment and pick up the hold-down at their home location, after they have secured their rest. Earnings guarantee will not apply. Operators called for Friday's hold an extraboard assignment and instructed to report 12 hours or less before the report time of the hold-down bidassignment may, at the time of the call, decline to report for the extraboard assignment if sufficient operators are available. All hold downs become effective Operators who decline such assignments will be removed from the board and placed on the hold-down at that time. If sufficient operators are not available, the assignment must be accepted. If such operator is unable to pull the first trip of the hold-down, the operator will be paid the greater of the first day of the following hold-down or the work week. 4performed. Hold Operators working hold-downs of driver instructors, who temporarily return to their regular runs from instructor duties, may elect to return to their hold-downs provided the driver instructors are scheduled to work five days or less (regular assigned workdays) on their regular run before returning to instructor duties. Hold-down bids operators must be informed of the date they can return to the hold- down and must elect at the time they are notified, whether or not they wish to return to the hold-down. Hold-down operators electing to resume the hold-down will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by placed onto the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at without hold-down bidding rights during the beginning of time the next pay week. In the interim the operator will be assigned to the extraboard with the operator receiving driver instructors are working their regular bid days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a hold down operator, they shall resume their bid assignmentrun.

Hold Downs. 1Hold-downs consist of temporary vacancies due to vacations and other leaves. For Hold-downs will be subject to bid by all extraboard operators at the purpose location of this Agreement the temporary vacancy. Temporary vacancies will be available for bid as hold-downs only when there are five or more known working days included in the hold-down period. Hold-downs will be available for bid each week beginning on Thursday until they are awarded the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job Thursday at 12:01 p.m., Central Time. Hold-downs will be posted in the online bidding system. Bidding may be adjusted by up to two days if the closing date will fall on a holiday.The regular runs of operators booking off sick or new bid assignment that is open for on Workers’ Compensation,Thursday through the following Wednes- day (a full week (Sunday through Saturdayseven-day period), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids shall be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on the Friday prior to the effective date of the hold down. Bids shall be awarded on a seniority basis. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced with the active extraboard for the hold down week. The extraboard operator will automatically receive the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following FridayThursday. Any additional hold down assignments that become available between Monday Operators must qualify themselves to work the hold-down. Qualified includes, but is not limited to, proper licenses, passports, bilingual skills and Friday noon will be posted as "late posting" and will be available for Friday's hold down knowledge of the route bid. All hold downs become effective on Operators must in- dicate whether they will take any scheduled days off immediately at the first day end of the following work week. 4hold-down at the time they bid. Hold down bids Hold-downs will be awarded one week to the senior qualified active extraboard operator. To be considered active, operators must be on the extraboard available for call, be on assignment, or on approved time off at the time the hold- down is awarded. Operators who have missed out, booked off sick, booked off fatigued, are on Workers’ Compensation, or are on any other type of leave, at the time the hold-down is awarded, will not be awarded the hold-down. If the most senior operator bidding a time. Results will hold- down is booked off indefinitely, or known to be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday unavailable for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at the beginning entire period of the next pay weekhold-down, the hold-down will not be awarded to that operator. In the interim the operator will If a hold-down is not bid, it may be assigned to the extraboard junior operator on that board or may, at the Company’s discretion, be worked off the extraboard. Successful bidders of a hold-down will take the first outbound trip at the home location with a signon time nine hours or more after the operator receiving hold-down is awarded, provided they are available and have sufficient rest. Such operators will be removed from the board nine hours before the signon time of the run. Successful bidders out on an assignment at the time they should have been removed from the board must complete their assignment and pick up the hold-down at their home location, after they have secured their rest. Earnings guarantee will not apply. working their regular bid days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a hold down operator, they shall resume their bid assignmentrun.

Hold Downs. 1. For the purpose of this Agreement the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job or new bid assignment that is All Regular runs known to be open for a full pay week (Sunday through Saturday), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold or more will become Hold-downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids and shall be submitted no later than 4:00 worked each week by those operators who bid the Extra Board. Any run that becomes open after 2:00 PM Wednesday of each week shall be worked from the rotating extra board. Hold-downs shall be worked from the Extra Board as follows: a. The senior operator on the Friday prior to Extra Board desiring the effective date Hold-down shall take the Hold-down and shall work the schedule of the hold downrun. Bids shall be awarded on a In this connection, and with seniority basis. An extraboard permitting, an operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced required to work the Hold-down in excess of one (1) week, but may rebid the Hold-down each week the run remains open. b. The Extra Board will be polled starting with the active extraboard senior operator to determine the successful bidder of the Hold-down. Such operators must submit their choice of Hold-down not later than 1:00 PM on Thursday for the hold next week's work. If all Extra Board operators reject the Hold-down week. The extraboard the operator will automatically receive with the days off of the hold down awarded and least seniority will be considered a assigned the Hold-down and shall work the Hold- down through the end of each week that the run remains an open Hold-down. If no Hold-down bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday is received by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 1:00 PM the following Friday. Any additional hold down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon will be posted as "late posting" and will be available for Friday's hold down bid. All hold downs become effective on the first day of the following work week. 4. Hold down bids will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at the beginning of the next pay week. In the interim the operator will be placed on the rotating extra board, if available. If only runs are available, the operator will be passed and forced on the remaining open run. If two (2) or more operators fail to leave a bid, the runs will be assigned to the extraboard by seniority with the most senior operator receiving their regular being assigned the lowest run bid number available. The next senior operator will receive the next lowest run bid number, etc., until all runs are assigned. c. Regular runs which become open after the work week begins, and will remain open for an indefinite period of time shall be worked from the Extra Board for the remainder of the work week, and the Hold-down shall go into effect the following Sunday. d. Any run deemed to be a temporary or experimental work assignment will be worked from the rotating extra board as a Hold-down for the duration of the run. A temporary/experimental run shall not exceed forty-five (45) calendar days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by in a hold General Run Bid period. e. Extra Board operators on Hold-down operator, they shall resume their bid assignmentbe considered as Regular operators.

Hold Downs. 1Hold-downs consist of temporary vacan- cies due to vacations and other leaves. For Hold-downs will be sub- ject to bid by all extraboard operators at the purpose location of this Agreement the tem- porary vacancy. Temporary vacancies will be available for bid as hold-downs only when there are five or more known working days included in the hold-down period. Hold-downs will be available for bid each week beginning on Thursday until they are awarded the following definitions shall apply: A hold down is defined as any job Thursday at 12:01 p.m., Central Time. Hold-downs will be posted in the online bid- ding system. Bidding may be adjusted by up to two days if the clos- ing date will fall on a holiday. The regular runs of operators book- ing off sick or new bid assignment that is open for on Workers’ Compensation, Thursday through the following Wednesday (a full week (Sunday through Saturdayseven-day period), except for jobs that are bid as single days. An active extraboard operator is any extraboard operator available for daily work assignments. An inactive extraboard operator is any extraboard operator working a "hold down" assignment; such operator is not eligible for extra work assignments, except by overall seniority. (Extraboard internships - See Article XIII E.) 2. Extraboard operators bidding hold downs may bid by proxy for an available hold down. Bids shall be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on the Friday prior to the effective date of the hold down. Bids shall be awarded on a seniority basis. An extraboard operator awarded a hold down will be on inactive extraboard status and their hours worked will not be balanced with the active extraboard for the hold down week. The extraboard operator will automatically receive the days off of the hold down awarded and will be considered a bid job operator for pay purposes during the hold down. 3. Available hold down assignments will be posted on Monday by 10:00 AM and remain posted until 4:00 PM the following FridayThursday. Any additional hold Operators must qualify themselves to work the hold-down. Qualified includes, but is not limited to, proper licenses, passports, bilingual skills and knowledge of the route bid. Operators must indicate whether they will take any scheduled days off immediately at the end of the hold-down assignments that become available between Monday and Friday noon at the time they bid. Hold-downs will be posted as "late posting" awarded to the senior qualified active extraboard operator. To be considered active, operators must be on the extraboard available for call, be on assignment, or on approved time off at the time the hold-down is awarded. Operators who have missed out, booked off sick, booked off fatigued, are on Workers’ Compensation, or are on any other type of leave, at the time the hold-down is awarded will not be awarded the hold-down. If the most senior operator bid- ding a hold-down is booked off indefinitely, or known to be unavail- able for the entire period of the hold-down, the hold-down will not be awarded to that operator. If a hold-down is not bid, it may be assigned to the junior operator on that board or may, at the Com- pany’s discretion, be worked off the extraboard. Successful bidders of a hold-down will take the first outbound trip at the home location with a signon time nine hours or more after the hold-down is awarded, provided they are available and have sufficient rest. Such operators will be available removed from the board nine hours before the signon time of the run. Successful bidders out on an assignment at the time they should have been removed from the board must complete their assignment and pick up the hold-down at their home location, after they have secured their rest. Earnings guarantee will not apply. Operators called for Friday's hold an extraboard assignment and instructed to report 12 hours or less before the report time of the hold-down bidassignment may, at the time of the call, decline to report for the extraboard assignment if sufficient operators are available. All hold downs become effective Opera- tors who decline such assignments will be removed from the board and placed on the hold-down at that time. If sufficient operators are not available, the assignment must be accepted. If such opera- tor is unable to pull the first trip of the hold-down, the operator will be paid the greater of the first day of the following hold-down or the work week. 4performed. Hold Operators working hold-downs of driver instructors, who temporarily return to their regular runs from instructor duties, may elect to return to their hold-downs provided the driver instructors are scheduled to work five days or less (regular assigned work days) on their regular run before returning to instructor duties. Hold- down bids operators must be informed of the date they can return to the hold-down and must elect at the time they are notified, whether or not they wish to return to the hold-down. Hold-down opera- tors electing to resume the hold-down will be awarded one week at a time. Results will be posted by 9:00 AM Saturday for the following work week. Hold downs not bid will be worked by placed onto the extraboard by way of daily work assignments. 5. An operator coming off a leave of absence shall reclaim their bid assignment at without hold-down bidding rights during the beginning of time the next pay week. In the interim the operator will be assigned to the extraboard with the operator receiving driver instructors are working their regular bid days off. In the event the operator's bid assignment is not being worked by a hold down operator, they shall resume their bid assignmentrun.