Permanent Day and Evening Shifts. Patrol, first responders (excluding traffic and SAT officers) shall be assigned to either a permanent day or evening shift. Upon successful conclusion of the Field Training Program, Probationary POls will be assigned to a shift based upon bona fide operational, training and developmental needs, as reasonably determined by the Employer. When there is a waiting list of volunteers for shift hours and a probationary P01 is pending placement on a shift, the probationary P01 may be assigned the shift hours before a volunteer. [See MOA: March 25, 1996.]
1. Procedure for Day/Evening Intra-Station Transfers.
a. Transfer requests will be given priority according to seniority, as defined by Article 12, Seniority, subject to the following conditions:
i. there is a vacancy on a shift (with the desired hours) that the Department is seeking to fill;
ii. it does not result in a staffing overage or shortage, as reasonably determined by the Employer; and
iii. it does not result in the involuntary transfer of another officer.
b. Transfer off the midnight shift shall follow the procedures outlined in Article 15, Section K of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The transferred midnight officer will be assigned to day or evening shift hours based upon his/her shift hours of preference whenever a vacancy exists on any shift with the preferred shift hours. If there is no vacancy on any shifts with preferred shift hours and if there are officers junior to the midnight officer already assigned to the preferred shift hours, the most junior officer may be involuntarily transferred to accommodate the midnight officer’s preference. If there are no officers junior to the midnight officer, the midnight officer will be assigned to shift hours based upon bona fide operational need.
c. When an officer who was involuntarily transferred to a permanent day or evening shift is permanently transferred off of a shift, the effective date of the transfer will be recorded in the officer’s unit operating file. An officer will not be involuntarily transferred an additional time to any permanent day or evening shift if there are other officers in the district who have either no departure date from an involuntary shift assignment or an earlier departure date from an involuntary shift assignment. For purposes of this section, an involuntary transfer is defined as an aggregate of six months served involuntarily. Effectively, every officer must serve a total of six months of involuntary transfer time befo...
