PART-TIME EMPLOYEES/DUES CHECK-OFF. 2.01 It is understood and agreed that no new employees will be added to the present personnel in each place of business until at least ninety (90) percent of the present employees in the employ of the Employer shall receive full time, forty (40) hours weekly employment. The choice of the employees to receive full time is to be left to the judgment of the management.
PART-TIME EMPLOYEES/DUES CHECK-OFF. 2.01 Part-time Employees. The mutual desire of the Employer, the Union and the employees is to provide full-time employees with 40 hours of paid work and/or paid time off per week whenever such work is available. In furtherance of that goal, the Employer hereby guarantees that, absent act of God, utility interruption, breakdown, emergency, or other unforeseen event that impairs or impedes operations, the Employer guarantees all full-time employees at least 64 hours of work (paid time off and approved unpaid time off count toward the 64 hour work guarantee) on a bi-weekly basis. The Employer may employ part-time employees who are part of the bargaining unit and who work, on average, thirty-two hours or less per week, and who are not entitled to or eligible for any particular wages or benefits under this Agreement notwithstanding any other terms of this Agreement, except as specified in this paragraph only. The Employer shall make contributions into the Health and Welfare Plan for any part-time employee in the month following any month where the part-time employee has worked at least 80 hours. All part-time employees reporting for work shall be guaranteed not less than 4 hours employment on the day of reporting. Part-time employees may be assigned to first or second shift. Current full-time employees as of the date of ratification will not be required to become part-time employees absent mutual agreement of the Employer and the employees. Part-time employees will be laid off before full-time employees, and shall accumulate seniority amongst themselves for purposes of lay-off and recall. The Employer may not use this paragraph as a subterfuge to eliminate full-time employees.
