Common use of Premium Services Clause in Contracts

Premium Services. Section 1. Job Protection Section 2. Sleeper Team Operations (1) Bidding and Mileage (a) Sleeper cab runs approved pursuant to the provisions of Article 43 will be posted and employees may bid for such runs in accordance with the bidding procedures set forth in the applicable Supplement, Rider or Addendum. No seniority employee shall be forced to drive in a sleeper cab run unless otherwise provided in their Feeder Work Rules or Local Union practice. If after the bidding process is exhausted, the new jobs/vacancies have not been filled, the following procedure shall apply. These jobs will be offered to other facilities within the jurisdiction of the local union which have qualified feeder drivers on lay-off, displaced, or otherwise not holding a bid within the feeder classification, before hiring off the street. To be eligible to transfer and fill these new jobs/vacancies, the employee must be qualified at the time the job is offered. Any employees transferring from another facility pursuant to this paragraph will have their seniority determined by the applicable Supplement, Rider, Addendum, or Local Union agreements/practice. The employee shall retain benefits (e.g. vacation, sick leave, holidays, etc.) based on the employee’s length of service. If no employee fills these new jobs/vacancies, the Company will hire off the street. Drivers hired off the street to cover open sleeper jobs will not be eligible to bid on new/vacated jobs for a period of eighteen (18) months. A senior driver who successfully bids a sleeper cab run shall be permitted to select his/her their respective sleeper cab team partner without regard to seniority, provided that the driver selected as a partner has, prior to such bid, acknowledged his/her their agreement, in writing, to accept such permanent sleeper cab run driving assignment and provided further that the selected partner possesses the required qualifications. (b) There shall be no two (2) person operations on runs with loads of less than five hundred fifty (550) outbound miles on the first leg and one thousand one hundred (1,100) miles round trip. All bids and cover drivers will receive reasonable time off at their home center. Every team driver shall be guaranteed at least forty (40) hours of pay per week. (2) Driver Team Once driver teams are established it is understood that they are not to be separated unless mutually agreed to by the Employer, the Local Union, and the driver team involved, except in case of emergency or reduction in force. Only two (2) drivers shall be permitted in sleeper cab equipment at any one (1) time except in case of emergency, an Act of God, or where a new type of equipment is put into operation. (3) Furnished Transportation and Lodging Comfortable, sanitary lodging shall be furnished by the Employer in all cases where an employee is required to take a rest period away from his their home center. Air-conditioned hotel rooms shall be furnished. Hotel rooms shall be equipped with blinds or draperies or be suitably darkened during daylight hours. There shall be no bunk beds or double beds and both drivers shall be entitled to a room. All team driver lodging must be maintained on the basis of one (1) driver per room. Under unusual circumstances in which the Employer is unable to furnish satisfactory lodging, the employee shall be paid fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00) for each rest period; except where accommodation is unavailable at such figure and it is necessary for the driver to pay in excess of fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00), he they shall receive reimbursement of the actual cost of the room. The Employer shall furnish transportation to and from the nearest public transportation, when there is unreasonable delay, at an away-from-home center, provided there is no public transportation available in the near vicinity and provided further that this provision shall not apply where the driver is allowed to use company equipment for transportation. All time waiting for motel/hotel furnished transportation and/or waiting for a sleeping room to be made available will be paid at the hourly rate of pay.

Premium Services. Section TEAMSTERS/UNITED PARCEL SERVICE ARTICLE 43 – PREMIUM SERVICES COMMITTEE Guidelines for Scheduling and Start up of 1. Job ProtectionNo Feeder Driver will be laid off or displaced from the Feeder Classification as a direct result of the implementation of a Premium Service Job. Section 2. Sleeper Team Operations (1) Bidding If the Employer’s existing Feeder Network can meet the Employer’s time and Mileage (a) Sleeper cab runs approved pursuant to the provisions of Article 43 service needs, that network will be posted and employees may bid for such runs used first. In the event the Employer proposes to implement either a mileage, layover, city pair or sleeper team run in accordance with the bidding procedures set forth provisions of section 1 above, the run must first be reviewed and approved by the affected Local Union(s). Such approval shall not be unreasonably denied. After approval by the Local Union(s), the accommodation shall be submitted to the Joint Premium Service Review Committee for review. The Employer may also submit the accommodation to the Committee for review in the applicable Supplement, Rider or Addendumevent approval is denied by the Local Union(s). No seniority employee such accommodation shall be forced implemented without the approval of the Parcel and Small Package Division Director or the General President’s designee. Approval shall not be unreasonably denied. Any run that has been approved and is changed such change must be reviewed with the Local Union(s) involved. City Pair (mileage turn) drivers will be paid by the actual miles driven between selected UPS location which are typically more than 250 miles apart. City Pair (mileage turn) drivers shall be scheduled for 5 working days as outlined in the Layover drivers will be paid by the actual miles driven between selected UPS locations, which are typically more than 500 miles apart. Mileage jobs not scheduled to drive equal ten (10) hours of pay will be filled in a sleeper cab run unless otherwise provided with local hourly feeder work in their Feeder Work Rules or Local Union practice. If after the bidding process is exhausted, the new jobs/vacancies have not been filled, the following procedure shall applyorder. 1. These Local feeder or CPU work at origin hub or center. 2. Shifter work at origin work location. 3. Layover jobs will not scheduled to equal ten (10) hours per day, may be offered to other facilities within the jurisdiction supplemented with an additional day of the local union which have qualified feeder drivers on lay-off, displaced, or otherwise not holding a bid within the feeder classification, before hiring off the street. To be eligible to transfer and fill these new jobs/vacancies, the employee must be qualified work at the time the job is offered. Any employees transferring from another facility pursuant regular hourly rate in an effort to this paragraph will have their seniority determined by the applicable Supplement, Rider, Addendum, or Local Union agreements/practice. The employee shall retain benefits (e.g. vacation, sick leave, holidays, etc.) based on the employee’s length of service. If no employee fills these new jobs/vacancies, the Company will hire off the street. Drivers hired off the street to cover open sleeper jobs will not be eligible to bid on new/vacated jobs for a period of eighteen (18) months. A senior driver who successfully bids a sleeper cab run shall be permitted to select his/her their respective sleeper cab team partner without regard to seniority, provided that the driver selected as a partner has, prior to such bid, acknowledged his/her their agreement, in writing, to accept such permanent sleeper cab run driving assignment and provided further that the selected partner possesses the required qualifications. (b) There shall be no two (2) person operations on runs with loads of less than five hundred fifty (550) outbound miles on the first leg and one thousand one hundred (1,100) miles round trip. All bids and cover drivers will receive reasonable time off at their home center. Every team driver shall be guaranteed at least provide forty (40) hours of pay per weekwork weekly. When this occurs, the layover job will not be subjected to the requirement of providing hourly work to equal ten (10) hours of pay. 4. Destination local work will be the last consideration. Holidays, personal holidays, paid sick days, funeral leave and jury duty for city pair (2mileage turn), layover and sleeper team drivers will be paid in accordance with the applicable supplement, rider or addendum. The layover and sleeper team drivers will be compensated for no less than (40) Driver Team Once driver teams hours of work in a holiday workweek. Sleeper Teams will receive premium holiday pay for any and all hours worked on a holiday. These holidays will be paid at ten (10) hours straight time pay for (mileage turn) drivers who are established it is understood that they scheduled four (4) day a week, ten (10) hours a day. When the city pair (mileage turn), layover and sleeper team drivers are not required to be separated unless mutually agreed to by the Employerwork on a holiday, the Local Union, and the driver team involved, except in case of emergency or reduction in force. Only two (2) drivers shall be permitted in sleeper cab equipment at any one (1) time except in case of emergency, an Act of God, or where a new type of equipment is put into operation. (3) Furnished Transportation and Lodging Comfortable, sanitary lodging shall be furnished by the Employer in all cases where an employee is required to take a rest period away from his their home center. Air-conditioned hotel rooms shall be furnished. Hotel rooms shall be equipped with blinds or draperies or be suitably darkened during daylight hours. There shall be no bunk beds or double beds and both drivers shall be entitled to a room. All team driver lodging must be maintained on the basis of one (1) driver per room. Under unusual circumstances in which the Employer is unable to furnish satisfactory lodging, the employee shall be paid fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00) for each rest period; except where accommodation is unavailable at such figure and it is necessary for the driver to pay in excess of fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00), he they shall receive reimbursement of the actual cost of the room. The Employer shall furnish transportation to and from the nearest public transportation, when there is unreasonable delay, at an away-from-home center, provided there is no public transportation available in the near vicinity and provided further that this provision shall not apply where the driver is allowed to use company equipment for transportation. All time waiting for motel/hotel furnished transportation and/or waiting for a sleeping room to be made available will be paid at the appropriate holiday rate under the applicable supplement, rider or addendum. City pair (mileage turn), layover and sleeper team jobs will be bid among regular origin feeder jobs as per local procedures and work rules. Jobs not selected in normal top down seniority order will be assigned from the bottom up as per normal local work rules. As per Article 43, Section 2(1)(a). Efforts to pre-connect city pair (mileage turn), layover and sleeper team drivers tractor/trailer units at the local origin will be made at both the start and the finish of the run in a regular location on the lot. Pre-trip inspection, start and the finish shall be part of the applicable mileage rate. “It is the intent of the parties to make the driver whole for all justified delay time, such as waiting for late loads, unscheduled on-property work, accident delay or on-road equipment breakdown. Any disputes will be referred to the Joint Premium Service Review Committee.” Mileage drivers are not paid for traffic delays when mileage is recorded within the delay except as follows: On major highways, traffic delays will commence when a mileage driver’s speed is reduced to a complete stop and then the driver continues to move at a speed less than fifteen (15) miles per hour. The delay would continue until the tractor reaches a speed of fifteen (15) miles per hour for at least one (1) consecutive minute. Traffic delays must be fifteen (15) minutes or greater and will be paid back to the first minute. It is understood in extreme traffic delay cases, delay pay will not be unreasonably denied. While this section clearly entitles the Team Drivers to be made whole for all justified delay time such as waiting for late loads this language applies only to sleeper cab planned runs that have been awarded through the appropriate applicable supplemental rider or addendum provision. When sleeper team runs require waiting time at the furthest point, such waiting time may be non-paid, but not to exceed two (2) hours. Upon arrival at such furthest point, the Company will have the option of providing suitable lodging for the duration of any wait time. Drivers who are provided with lodging will be in a non-pay status not to exceed eight (8) hours or until placed back on duty by the Company. Waiting time at intermediate stops will be handled in accordance with applicable local supplement, rider or addendum. Delays of fifteen minutes or more will be paid back to the first minute, at the applicable local hourly feeder rate for both team drivers and a single person driver that is on a layover run. “Chain-up” time will be paid to both team drivers and a single person driver that is on a layover run in the states where it is required. City pair (mileage turn), layover and sleeper team drivers will be paid the applicable feeder hourly rate if dispatched (i.e. via) off of payhis/her mileage run while in route to the final destination. Any such re-dispatch/via will not displace any bid feeder work. Any approved diversion that increases the agreed upon mileage on the LMA, those miles will be paid at the premium mileage rate. Any extension or alteration of an agreed upon run will be paid at the premium rate for all miles driven and work performed. Shuttle service to a sanitary hotel and lodging expenses will be paid for, or provided by the employer. It is understood that supplemental language, regarding impassable highways, shall continue to apply. If a mileage driver pulls doubles any part of his/her day, he/she will be paid the doubles rate for the entire day. Double forty (40) foot trailers will be categorized the same as triples. For Sleeper Teams Drivers, the greatest number of trailers actually pulled will be used for compensating all legs from domicile to return to domicile. Each turn at domicile will reset the trailer compensation rate. Applicable wage rates are listed under Article 43 and apply to all drivers. There is no wage progression for full-time package car and feeder drivers hired on or prior to August 1st, 1997. In the event city pair (mileage turn), layover and sleeper team mileage drivers are offered work on a regular scheduled day off from his/her workweek, the following shall apply: 1. Mileage drivers who work on their days off shall be paid the applicable feeder premium rate of pay in his/her Supplemental Agreement. 2. Mileage drivers scheduled for four (4) runs at ten (10) hours a day – When the Drivers work on the fifth (5th) punch, such drivers shall be paid the applicable premium rate of pay in his/her Supplemental Agreement for a sixth (6th) day of work. 3. Mileage drivers scheduled for four (4) runs at ten (10) hours a day – When the Drivers work on the sixth (6th) punch, such drivers shall be paid the applicable premium rate of pay in his/her Supplemental Agreement for the seventh (7th) day of work. 4. Sleeper drivers who work on a scheduled day off will paid at the premium rate. Any subsequent days worked thereafter will paid at two times the rate.

Premium Services. Section 1. Job Protection Section 2. Sleeper Team Operations (1) Bidding and Mileage (a) Sleeper cab runs approved pursuant to the provisions of Article 43 will be posted and employees may bid for such runs in accordance with the bidding procedures set forth in the applicable Supplement, Rider or Addendum. No seniority employee shall be forced to drive in a sleeper cab run unless otherwise provided in their Feeder Work Rules or Local Union practice. If after the bidding process is exhausted, the new jobs/vacancies have not been filled, the following procedure shall apply. These jobs will be offered to other facilities within the jurisdiction of the local union which have qualified feeder drivers on lay-off, displaced, or otherwise not holding a bid within the feeder classification, before hiring off the street. To be eligible to transfer and fill these new jobs/vacancies, the employee must be qualified at the time the job is offered. Any employees transferring from another facility pursuant to this paragraph will have their seniority determined by the applicable Supplement, Rider, Addendum, or Local Union agreements/practice. The employee shall retain benefits (e.g. vacation, sick leave, holidays, etc.) based on the employee’s length of service. If no employee fills these new jobs/vacancies, the Company will hire off the street. Drivers hired off the street to cover open sleeper jobs will not be eligible to bid on new/vacated jobs for a period of eighteen (18) months. A senior driver who successfully bids a sleeper cab run shall be permitted to select his/her their respective sleeper cab team partner without regard to seniority, provided that the driver selected as a partner has, prior to such bid, acknowledged his/her their agreement, in writing, to accept such permanent sleeper cab run driving assignment and provided further that the selected partner possesses the required qualifications. (b) There shall be no two (2) person operations on runs with loads of less than five hundred fifty (550) outbound miles on the first leg and one thousand one hundred (1,100) miles round trip. All bids and cover drivers will receive reasonable time off at their home center. Every team driver shall be guaranteed at least forty (40) hours of pay per week. (2) Driver Team Once driver teams are established it is understood that they are not to be separated unless mutually agreed to by the Employer, the Local Union, and the driver team involved, except in case of emergency or reduction in force. Only two (2) drivers shall be permitted in sleeper cab equipment at any one (1) time except in case of emergency, an Act of God, or where a new type of equipment is put into operation. (3) Furnished Transportation and Lodging Comfortable, sanitary lodging shall be furnished by the Employer in all cases where an employee is required to take a rest period away from his their home center. Air-conditioned hotel rooms shall be furnished. Hotel rooms shall be equipped with blinds or draperies or be suitably darkened during daylight hours. There shall be no bunk beds or double beds and both drivers shall be entitled to a room. All team driver lodging must be maintained on the basis of one (1) driver per room. Under unusual circumstances in which the Employer is unable to furnish satisfactory lodging, the employee shall be paid fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00) for each rest period; except where accommodation is unavailable at such figure and it is necessary for the driver to pay in excess of fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00), he they shall receive reimbursement of the actual cost of the room. The Employer shall furnish transportation to and from the nearest public transportation, when there is unreasonable delay, at an away-from-home center, provided there is no public transportation available in the near vicinity and provided further that this provision shall not apply where the driver is allowed to use company equipment for transportation. All time waiting for motel/hotel furnished transportation and/or waiting for a sleeping room to be made available will be paid at the hourly rate of pay.forty