Low-Census Rotation. It is recognized by the parties that the basic policy shall be to use the low census procedure to accomplish short term staff reductions. When low service volume requires adjustment in nurse staffing, such adjustment may be made by floating nurses to available assignments for which they are qualified. If there are no such opportunities available, nurses may be low censused under the following guidelines. Low census and standby will be assigned in the following descending order of priority: a. Agency nurses. b. Nurses working at the overtime rate. c. Requested low census by employee: where there exists more requests than needed, the requested low census day will be granted in the following order:
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
