Order of Cancellation/Flexing. Subject to patient care staffing needs, including adequate qualifications of employees, when it is necessary and unavoidable to cancel or flex an employee, the Hospital shall cancel/flex employees in the following order:
i. The Hospital agrees to first seek volunteers, for all of the following categories before imposing mandatory cancellation/flexing. Volunteers may be accepted at any point in the process. Where the number of volunteers exceeds the number of employees to be cancelled/flexed, the Employer shall select volunteers, by seniority by shift, job position, and unit, in the following order:
(a) full-time employees;
(b) part-time employees;
(c) per diem employees;
(d) temporary employees, agency or registry workers.
ii. Prior to canceling full-time and part-time employees on their regular schedule for low census, the Hospital will first cancel:
(a) agency or registry workers (as long as the Employer does not incur any cost by cancelling this work);
(b) temporary employees;
(c) part-time then full-time employees working overtime or on extra shifts; and
(d) per diem employees.
iii. The Hospital will then cancel:
(a) part-time employees; and
(b) full-time employees, based on rotating seniority by shift, job position, and unit, if appropriate.
Order of Cancellation/Flexing. Subject to patient care staffing needs, including adequate qualifications of employees, when it is necessary and unavoidable to cancel or flex an employee, the Hospital shall cancel/flex employees in the following order:
i. The Hospital agrees to first seek volunteers, for all of the following categories before imposing mandatory cancellation/flexing. Volunteers may be accepted at any point in the process. Where the number of volunteers exceeds the number of employees to be cancelled/flexed, the Employer shall select volunteers, by seniority by shift, job position, and unit, in the following order:
(1) full-time employees;
(2) part-time employees;
(3) per diem employees;
(4) temporary employees, agency or registry workers.
ii. Prior to canceling full-time and part-time employees on their regular schedule for low census, the Hospital will first cancel:
(1) agency or registry workers;
(2) temporary employees;
(3) part-time then full-time employees working overtime or on extra shifts; and
(4) per diem employees.
iii. The Hospital will then cancel:
(1) part-time employees; and
(2) full-time employees, based on rotating seniority by shift, job position, and unit, if appropriate. Within two (2) weeks of any request by the Union, the Hospital will provide the Union with a complete and accurate information regarding cancelations in any unit or department and a current seniority list for any unit or department. An employee with more than twenty (20) years of seniority shall not be cancelled, unless she/he is the least senior employee available. An employee with more than ten (10) but less than twenty (20) years of seniority shall not be cancelled more than one (1) time per six-month period (January through June and July through December), unless she/he is the least senior employee available.
