Common use of Pay for Attending Grievance Meetings Clause in Contracts

Pay for Attending Grievance Meetings. (a) The Bargaining Committee and the Company shall have the right to call witnesses from the Plant organization to testify as to the facts concerning any grievance during the hearing of a grievance. If an employee is called away from his work due to being called as a witness by the Company or due to a meeting called by the Company, the time of such witness spent in the meeting which falls within his regular scheduled hours will be paid for by the Company at his regular straight-time rate. (b) If meetings in negotiation for adjustment or settlement of grievances require any witness, or any member of the Bargaining Committee to leave his work, the number of Bargaining Unit employees who shall not lose straight-time wages under such conditions shall be limited to one aggrieved employee and one Bargaining Committee member at the FIRST step of the grievance procedure, and one aggrieved employee and two Bargaining Committee members at the SECOND step of the grievance procedure. Each employee and Bargaining Committee member shall, wherever possible, give his immediate supervisor at least twelve (12) hours' notice prior to any meeting in order that arrangements can be made to relieve him from duty.