Isolated Employees. (a) NaMIG will establish a sub-committee called the Isolated Nurses and Midwives Sub-Committee. The focus of this sub-committee will be on the nurses and midwives working by themselves or in small groups in geographically isolated locations.
(b) The sub-committee is to make recommendations to NaMIG about responses to the following issues:
(i) Safety;
(ii) Fatigue;
(iii) Professional isolation; and
(iv) Professional and industrial ramifications of decision-making and actions by employees working in isolated settings.
(c) In particular, the sub-committee will make recommendation to NaMIG about the concept of “Never Alone” in isolated settings.
(d) The committee will be established for the life of the Agreement and report to NaMIG monthly.
Isolated Employees. Except to the extent they agree otherwise, the parties shall use their respective reasonable endeavors to ensure that any Isolated Employees being employed by Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx or an Isolated Employer on or before the Distribution Date are employed or offered employment by Halyard or a 3rd party staffing agency providing staffing services to Halyard (or other 3rd party employer) as agreed upon between Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx and Halyard opposite the name of each Isolated Employee associated with such employer, on such initial terms and conditions substantially similar in the aggregate to the terms and conditions of such employee’s last day of employment with Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx or the relevant Isolated Employer.
