Common use of HOURS OF WORK - OVERTIME - HOLIDAYS Clause in Contracts

HOURS OF WORK - OVERTIME - HOLIDAYS. 1. Five consecutive eight hour days to be worked from Monday through Saturday, inclusive, shall constitute a work week. The scheduled hours of work shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. with one hour for lunch beginning not earlier than 11:00 A.M. and completed no later than 2:00 P.M. When the duties of a job require a regular scheduled working period varying from the foregoing, such schedule shall be mutually arranged by the parties hereto and shall not exceed eight hours a day or forty hours a week. 2. Employees assigned to work which regularly operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, including Sundays and Holidays, shall be designated as "shift" employees. The hours for shift employees, covered hereunder, shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., 4:00 P.M. to Midnight, and Midnight to 8:00 A.M., and shall not exceed eight hours a day or forty hours a week. With the consent of the Supervisor, Shift Employees shall have the privilege of exchanging shifts within the same work week by individual arrangement, provided the change can be accomplished without additional costs to the Company. Management, at its discretion, may establish a work week consisting of four (4) ten (10) hour days for a particular work group. The days of the work week will be Monday through Saturday, not necessarily consecutive days. a. The management of each work group will determine/approve the available shifts which will include a 30 minute or 60 minute lunch period. b. Starting time will be no earlier than 6:00 a.m. and no later than 9:00 a.m. Schedules must remain constant once established but may be changed with management’s approval (taking needs of service and seniority into consideration). c. Individuals in a work group working four (4) ten (10) hour days who wish not to participate in the schedule will continue with, or return to a five (5) day work week d. The applicable overtime rate will be paid for all overtime outside of the mutually agreed upon work hours. e. Sick time and vacation time will be charged in ten (10) hour increments (eight (8) hours sick waiting is not changed). f. A holiday, jury duty and funeral leave that falls during the agreed upon work week will be paid in 10 hour increments g. When a holiday falls outside of the mutually agreed work week, an additional eight (8) hours of holiday pay will be paid for a total of 48 hours pay. h. If it is determined by management to no longer continue with the 4-10 schedule, the work group will return to a five (5) eight (8) hour day schedule with a two (2) week notice to the affected employees. i. Management will adjust schedules/shifts when necessary to accommodate training or special job assignments. This may include working a five (5) day week during training. The employee will be given as much notice as possible. 3. Any hours of work week varying from the foregoing shall not be scheduled unless mutually agreed upon by the parties hereto. The Company will notify the union of part-time help before hiring and will seek mutual agreement. 4. All employees (except part time employees) covered by this Agreement shall receive full time employment (40 hours per week) provided they are ready and in condition to perform their work. Employees laid off because a job is completed or shut down for reasons beyond Company's control shall be paid in full to the date of layoff. 5. Employees who are regularly scheduled to work on a calendar Sunday shall be paid time and one-quarter of the basic hourly rates for their scheduled eight hours tour of duty on that day. Other employees working on Sunday shall not receive the Sunday premium rate, but shall be paid the applicable overtime rate. 6. All time worked by employees, other than part time employees, that is in excess of regular hours or regular shifts shall be paid for at the rate of time and one-half, and double time is to be paid for all overtime worked on Sunday. 7. Employees (except part time employees) under this Agreement shall receive eight straight time hours pay for each of the listed holidays. Part time employees shall receive straight time pay for their regularly scheduled hours for each of the listed holidays falling within the employees scheduled work week. Any employee when working his regularly scheduled hours on days designated as holidays in this Agreement shall be paid in addition to his regular hourly rate of pay, time and one-half pay at his regular hourly rate for such hours. (a) An employee who is usually excused from working his normally scheduled hours because of a holiday shall, if called for work during such hours on a holiday, receive additional time and one-half for hours worked (with a minimum of two hours) within the scheduled hours from which he was excused. (b) When a holiday falls outside of the regularly scheduled work week and an employee is called to work on such holiday, he shall receive additional time and one-half pay for such hours worked (with a minimum of two hours) as fall within the hours which on the previous regularly scheduled work day were his normally scheduled hours. (c) Work performed on holidays outside of the hours above referred to shall be paid at double the straight time rate of pay. (d) Overtime worked outside of the employees' Service Area will not be charged against the employee. 9. Unless excused, an employee shall not be paid straight time holiday pay if he fails to work on a holiday, which falls within his regularly scheduled work week, or if he fails to work the regularly scheduled day before or the regularly scheduled day after the holiday. (a) A minimum of two hours pay at overtime rate shall be paid to an employee who is called back to work after having completed their regularly scheduled work day. When an employee is called to work outside of their regular hours they shall be paid from the time they leave home. (b) Prearranged overtime work scheduled in advance of regular working hours when assigned to employees who have had notice not later than at the end of their next preceding work period and who continue to work their regularly scheduled work period following said prearranged overtime shall be paid for the applicable overtime rate for actual excess time. In the event notice is not given at or before the end of the employee's next preceding work period they shall be allowed a minimum of two (2) hours pay at the applicable overtime rate. (c) Employees employed for less than two (2) hours on prearranged overtime work who do not perform a regular day's work before or after said prearranged overtime shall be allowed a minimum of two (2) hours pay at the applicable overtime rate. In addition, the two (2) hour minimum pay shall apply in those cases where prearranged overtime is scheduled and is cancelled prior to reporting time. 11. When actual time worked in a 24 hour period exceeds 14 hours, the employee shall be entitled to an 8 hour continuous rest period when released. If the rest period extends into his/her regularly scheduled work day he/she shall lose no time thereby. During this 8 hour rest period, upon mutual agreement by the Company and employee, an employee may respond for emergency or routine work and will remain on double time until a continuous 8 hour rest period has been granted. The employee will return to work during a normal work day when the 8 hour continuous rest period has expired. Continuous work in excess of 13 hours or 14 non- consecutive hours in a 24-hour period shall be paid at double time. It is understood, unless instructed otherwise, employees will take an eight hour rest period when due. 12. When an employee is required to continue to work in excess of one hour after the regular quitting time, he shall be furnished a meal and a thirty minute meal period. Additional meals shall be furnished thereafter after each continuous working interval of 4 1/2 hours (exclusive of the meal period) until released from duty. When an employee is required to return to work after the regular quitting time, he shall be furnished a meal and a thirty minute meal period after each continuous interval of 4 1/2 hours (exclusive of the meal period) until released from duty. A thirty minute meal period shall be allowed for each meal. When an employee is called for work one hour or more before his regularly scheduled work time and then continues with his regular hours of work he shall, when work permits, be furnished a meal and allowed a thirty minute meal period. When an employee works prearranged overtime commencing more than two hours before his regularly scheduled starting time and then continues with his regular hours of work, he shall, when time permits, be furnished a meal and allowed a thirty minute meal period. The reference “furnished” is intended to mean actual meal furnished by the Company or meal money of $20.00 to be included on the employee’s pay. If any meal to which an employee may be entitled hereunder is not taken before such employee is released from duty, such employee shall be paid an amount equal to thirty minutes time at the applicable rate of pay and will be paid $10.00 in lieu of such meal. 13. An employee shall not be required to take time off during his regularly scheduled work week in place of overtime worked or to be worked. 14. As far as practicable, overtime shall be distributed equally among employees of the same department, work group or job classification, taking into consideration the qualifications required and the availability of the employees. The Company shall post monthly accumulative records of such overtime worked showing employees, department and hours worked. If an employee is offered an opportunity to work overtime and refuses, the hours shall be charged against him (for overtime equalization purposes) as though he had worked. 15. Employees (exclusive of shift workers) whose work week is Tuesday to Saturday inclusive, shall be off duty the day following a holiday which is observed on Monday. When a holiday falls on Saturday such work week shall be Monday to Friday inclusive. 16. An employee will be allowed three (3) consecutive working days of Funeral Leave with pay in the event of a death in his immediate family; namely father, mother, step- father, step-mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, spouse (including established civil unions), son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother and sister. If the call is received while at work, the following day will be counted as the first day and the employee will receive straight time pay for the remainder of the basic work day. An employee will be allowed one (1) day of Funeral Leave with pay to attend the funeral of his grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, step-brother, step-sister, son-in-law, and daughter- in-law. When an employee is requested by the family to serve as pallbearer or assist at a funeral for a deceased employee or a deceased retired employee he shall be permitted to be absent without loss of pay not to exceed one day. 17. An employee performing jury service shall do so without loss of pay and shall remit all fees for such service to the utility. On days second or third shift employees are required to report or call in for jury duty, they will be assigned to day shift hours and will not be eligible for overtime. On days when the employee is not required to report or call in for jury duty, the employee will report to his/her regularly scheduled shift. Employees will notify supervision on a daily basis whether they will be on jury duty or reporting to work the next day, if the next day is not a scheduled day off. If released from jury duty prior to the end of the scheduled work day, the employee shall call their supervisor who will instruct them on whether or not to return to work that day. When an employee is assigned to a long term jury, the above terms may be altered by mutual agreement. 18. An employee who is injured during and in the course of his employment with the Company and is eligible for Workmen's Compensation for temporary total incapacity for work in accordance with the Workmen's Compensation Act, Section 8, shall receive from the Company the difference between the weekly compensation rate for temporary total disability and his basic weekly take-home pay (gross pay less FICA, Federal and State Withholding Taxes) for each day he is off, starting from the time of the injury. Such payments are to continue until - (a) the company physician releases the employee to return to work; or (b) such time that compensation for temporary total incapacity for work as specified in Section 8 of the Workmen's Compensation Act has been exhausted; or (c) such time that the employee is determined to be wholly and permanently incapable of work by the Industrial Commission. In no case will an employee be entitled to more than his basic take-home pay during the period of temporary total incapacity for work. 19. When an employee is specifically assigned to a job classification carrying a higher rate of pay for a continuous period of one or more hours (excluding lunch and rest periods) he shall be paid the higher rate of pay as provided in Article IV, Section 4. If the assignment covers a continuous period of four or more hours in a regular work day, then the employee shall be paid the higher rate of pay for that entire basic work day. When an employee is temporarily required to perform work in a lower paid classification, he is to suffer no reduction in pay. 20. The following holidays, or the days on which they are observed, shall be recognized in this Agreement: New Year's Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, and the Employee's Birthday. The Birthday holiday may be celebrated under one of the following options: 1) On the actual day under the same provisions that govern the celebration of other holidays. 2) Taken as vacation. Scheduling of this option is subject to the needs of service, and is to be completed by December 31st each year. 3) If an employee's birthday holiday falls on a holiday and is not rescheduled under option 2 above, the birthday may be taken in conjunction with that holiday or the employee will be paid eight hours pay. When a holiday under this Agreement falls on a Saturday, the previous Friday shall be observed as the holiday and when a holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday shall be observed as the holiday. (Christmas Eve will be celebrated on the last regularly scheduled work day before the day on which Christmas is celebrated as a holiday by the Company.)

HOURS OF WORK - OVERTIME - HOLIDAYS. 1. Five consecutive eight hour days to be worked from Monday through Saturday, inclusive, shall constitute a work week. The scheduled hours of work shall be from 8:00 A.M. 8:00 A. M. to 5:00 P.M. with one hour for lunch beginning not earlier than 11:00 A.M. and completed no later than 2:00 P.M. When the duties of a job require a regular scheduled working period varying from the foregoing, such schedule shall be mutually arranged by the parties hereto and shall not exceed eight hours a day or forty hours a week. 2. Employees assigned to work which regularly operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, including Sundays and Holidays, shall be designated as "shift" employees. The hours for shift employees, covered hereunder, shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., 4:00 P.M. to Midnight, and Midnight to 8:00 A.M., and shall not exceed eight hours a day or forty hours a week. With the consent of the Supervisor, Shift Employees shall have the privilege of exchanging shifts within the same work week by individual arrangement, provided the change can be accomplished without additional costs to the Company. Management, at its discretion, may establish a work week consisting of four (4) ten (10) hour days for a particular work group. The days of the work week will be Monday through Saturday, not necessarily consecutive days. a. The management of each work group will determine/approve the available shifts which will include a 30 minute or 60 minute lunch period. b. Starting time will be no earlier than 6:00 a.m. and no later than 9:00 a.m. Schedules must remain constant once established but may be changed with management’s approval (taking needs of service and seniority into consideration). c. Individuals in a work group working four (4) ten (10) hour days who wish not to participate in the schedule will continue with, or return to a five (5) day work week d. The applicable overtime rate will be paid for all overtime outside of the mutually agreed upon work hours. e. Sick time and vacation time will be charged in ten (10) hour increments (eight (8) hours sick waiting is not changed). f. A holiday, jury duty and funeral leave that falls during the agreed upon work week will be paid in 10 hour increments g. When a holiday falls outside of the mutually agreed work week, an additional eight (8) hours of holiday pay will be paid for a total of 48 hours pay. h. If it is determined by management to no longer continue with the 4-10 schedule, the work group will return to a five (5) eight (8) hour day schedule with a two (2) week notice to the affected employees. i. Management will adjust schedules/shifts when necessary to accommodate training or special job assignments. This may include working a five (5) day week during training. The employee will be given as much notice as possible. 3. Any hours of work week varying from the foregoing shall not be scheduled unless mutually agreed upon by the parties hereto. The Company will notify the union of part-time help before hiring and will seek mutual agreement. 4. All employees (except part time employees) covered by this Agreement shall receive full time employment (40 hours per week) provided they are ready and in condition to perform their work. Employees laid off because a job is completed or shut down for reasons beyond Company's control shall be paid in full to the date of layoff. 5. Employees who are regularly scheduled to work on a calendar Sunday shall be paid time and one-quarter of the basic hourly rates for their scheduled eight hours tour of duty on that day. Other employees working on Sunday shall not receive the Sunday premium rate, but shall be paid the applicable overtime rate. 6. All time worked by employees, other than part time employees, that is in excess of regular hours or regular shifts shall be paid for at the rate of time and one-half, and double time is to be paid for all overtime worked on Sunday. 7. Employees (except part time employees) under this Agreement shall receive eight straight time hours pay for each of the listed holidays. Part time employees shall receive straight time pay for their regularly scheduled hours for each of the listed holidays falling within the employees scheduled work week. Any employee when working his regularly scheduled hours on days designated as holidays in this Agreement shall be paid in addition to his regular hourly rate of pay, time and one-half pay at his regular hourly rate for such hours. (a) An employee who is usually excused from working his normally scheduled hours because of a holiday shall, if called for work during such hours on a holiday, receive additional time and one-half for hours worked (with a minimum of two hours) within the scheduled hours from which he was excused. (b) When a holiday falls outside of the regularly scheduled work week and an employee is called to work on such holiday, he shall receive additional time and one-half pay for such hours worked (with a minimum of two hours) as fall within the hours which on the previous regularly scheduled work day were his normally scheduled hours. (c) Work performed on holidays outside of the hours above referred to shall be paid at double the straight time rate of pay. (d) Overtime worked outside of the employees' Service Area will not be charged against the employee. 9. Unless excused, an employee shall not be paid straight time holiday pay if he fails to work on a holiday, which falls within his regularly scheduled work week, or if he fails to work the regularly scheduled day before or the regularly scheduled day after the holiday. (a) A minimum of two hours pay at overtime rate shall be paid to an employee who is called back to work after having completed their regularly scheduled work day. When an employee is called to work outside of their regular hours they shall be paid from the time they leave home. (b) Prearranged overtime work scheduled in advance of regular working hours when assigned to employees who have had notice not later than at the end of their next preceding work period and who continue to work their regularly scheduled work period following said prearranged overtime shall be paid for the applicable overtime rate for actual excess time. In the event notice is not given at or before the end of the employee's next preceding work period they shall be allowed a minimum of two (2) hours pay at the applicable overtime rate. (c) Employees employed for less than two (2) hours on prearranged overtime work who do not perform a regular day's work before or after said prearranged overtime shall be allowed a minimum of two (2) hours pay at the applicable overtime rate. In addition, the two (2) hour minimum pay shall apply in those cases where prearranged overtime is scheduled and is cancelled prior to reporting time. 11. When actual time worked in a 24 hour period exceeds 14 hours, the employee shall be entitled to an 8 hour continuous rest period when released. If the rest period extends into his/her regularly scheduled work day he/she shall lose no time thereby. During this 8 hour rest period, upon mutual agreement by the Company and employee, an employee may respond for emergency or routine work and will remain on double time until a continuous 8 hour rest period has been granted. The employee will return to work during a normal work day when the 8 hour continuous rest period has expired. Continuous work in excess of 13 hours or 14 non- non-consecutive hours in a 24-hour period shall be paid at double time. It is understood, unless instructed otherwise, employees will take an eight hour rest period when due. 12. When an employee is required to continue to work in excess of one hour after the regular quitting time, he shall be furnished a meal and a thirty minute meal period. Additional meals shall be furnished thereafter after each continuous working interval of 4 1/2 hours (exclusive of the meal period) until released from duty. When an employee is required to return to work after the regular quitting time, he shall be furnished a meal and a thirty minute meal period after each continuous interval of 4 1/2 hours (exclusive of the meal period) until released from duty. A thirty minute meal period shall be allowed for each meal. When an employee is called for work one hour or more before his regularly scheduled work time and then continues with his regular hours of work he shall, when work permits, be furnished a meal and allowed a thirty minute meal period. When an employee works prearranged overtime commencing more than two hours before his regularly scheduled starting time and then continues with his regular hours of work, he shall, when time permits, be furnished a meal and allowed a thirty minute meal period. The reference “furnished” is intended to mean actual meal furnished by the Company or meal money of $20.00 to be included on the employee’s pay. If any meal to which an employee may be entitled hereunder is not taken before such employee is released from duty, such employee shall be paid an amount equal to thirty minutes time at the applicable rate of pay and will be paid $10.00 in lieu of such meal. 13. An employee shall not be required to take time off during his regularly scheduled work week in place of overtime worked or to be worked. 14. As far as practicable, overtime shall be distributed equally among employees of the same department, work group or job classification, taking into consideration the qualifications required and the availability of the employees. The Company shall post monthly accumulative records of such overtime worked showing employees, department and hours worked. If an employee is offered an opportunity to work overtime and refuses, the hours shall be charged against him (for overtime equalization purposes) as though he had worked. Employees will be notified of scheduled overtime as far in advance as possible. 15. Employees (exclusive of shift workers) whose work week is Tuesday to Saturday inclusive, shall be off duty the day following a holiday which is observed on Monday. When a holiday falls on Saturday such work week shall be Monday to Friday inclusive. 16. An employee will be allowed three (3) consecutive working days of Funeral Leave with pay in the event of a death in his immediate family; namely father, mother, step- father, step-mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, spouse (including established civil unions), son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother and sister. If the call is received while at work, the following day will be counted as the first day and the employee will receive straight time pay for the remainder of the basic work day. An employee will be allowed one (1) day of Funeral Leave with pay to attend the funeral of his grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, step-brother, step-sister, son-in-law, and daughter- daughter-in-law. When an employee is requested by the family to serve as pallbearer or assist at a funeral for a deceased employee or a deceased retired employee he shall be permitted to be absent without loss of pay not to exceed one day. 17. An employee performing jury service shall do so without loss of pay and shall remit all fees for such service to the utility. On days second or third shift employees are required to report or call in for jury duty, they will be assigned to day shift hours and will not be eligible for overtime. On days when the employee is not required to report or call in for jury duty, the employee will report to his/her regularly scheduled shift. Employees will notify supervision on a daily basis whether they will be on jury duty or reporting to work the next day, if the next day is not a scheduled day off. If released from jury duty prior to the end of the scheduled work day, the employee shall call their supervisor who will instruct them on whether or not to return to work that day. When an employee is assigned to a long term jury, the above terms may be altered by mutual agreement. 18. An employee who is injured during and in the course of his employment with the Company and is eligible for Workmen's Compensation for temporary total incapacity for work in accordance with the Workmen's Compensation Act, Section 8, shall receive from the Company the difference between the weekly compensation rate for temporary total disability and his basic weekly take-home pay (gross pay less FICA, Federal and State Withholding Taxes) for each day he is off, starting from the time of the injury. Such payments are to continue until - (a) the company physician releases the employee to return to work; or (b) such time that compensation for temporary total incapacity for work as specified in Section 8 of the Workmen's Compensation Act has been exhausted; or (c) such time that the employee is determined to be wholly and permanently incapable of work by the Industrial Commission. In no case will an employee be entitled to more than his basic take-home pay during the period of temporary total incapacity for work. 19. When an employee is specifically assigned to a job classification carrying a higher rate of pay for a continuous period of one or more hours (excluding lunch and rest periods) he shall be paid the higher rate of pay as provided in Article IV, Section 4. If the assignment covers a continuous period of four or more hours in a regular work day, then the employee shall be paid the higher rate of pay for that entire basic work day. When an employee is temporarily required to perform work in a lower paid classification, he is to suffer no reduction in pay. 20. The following holidays, or the days on which they are observed, shall be recognized in this Agreement: New Year's Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, and the Employee's Birthday. The Birthday holiday may be celebrated under one of the following options: 1) On the actual day under the same provisions that govern the celebration of other holidays. 2) Taken as vacation. Scheduling of this option is subject to the needs of service, and is to be completed by December 31st each year. 3) If an employee's birthday holiday falls on a holiday and is not rescheduled under option 2 above, the birthday may be taken in conjunction with that holiday or the employee will be paid eight hours pay. When a holiday under this Agreement falls on a Saturday, the previous Friday shall be observed as the holiday and when a holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday shall be observed as the holiday. (Christmas Eve will be celebrated on the last regularly scheduled work day before the day on which Christmas is celebrated as a holiday by the Company.)