Purpose and Rate of Pay. Paid Time Off (PTO) allows more flexibility and individual management of time off subject to the Employer’s reserved right to determine scheduling and ensure the continuity of patient care. PTO compensates Regular Nurses at their hourly base wage rate of pay when they are absent from work for such purposes as vacation, illness, holidays, family emergencies, religious observances, preventive health and dental care, and other excused elective absences. A Regular Nurse permanently assigned to evenings or nights at the time of payment will receive a differential of ten percent (10%) or eighteen percent (18%), respectively, based upon the hourly base wage rate. Permanent assignment constitutes an anticipated or realized six (6) months of assignment. This assignment is agreed upon by the Nurse and department and indicated on a signed Personnel Action Form.
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