Relief Coverage. There are two ways to cover vacancies, either with a voluntary or mandatory coverage system. A voluntary system requires no one to be forced into work or on-call to cover for vacancies. Under the new shift schedules, the Division would like to maintain a voluntary system for covering vacancies (i.e., those who want overtime volunteer to work and those who do not want to work overtime do not have to work). However, for a voluntary coverage system to work the employee at a plant must work together and be willing to come into work occasionally on their day off (at an overtime rate of pay). Should this voluntary system fail to provide adequate coverage for vacancies, then the Bureau reserves the right to assign employees to cover vacancies using current practices or implement a mandatory relief system. Note that the voluntary system fails when employees have to work 18 consecutive hours to cover a vacant shift. Every effort will be made to prevent an employee from working 18 consecutive hours. Vacancies on 12-hour shift, in many cases, are filled by employees who come into work on their days off. Since it takes additional time to contact an employee and have them commute into work, employees on 12-hour shift schedules are expected to give at least 2 hours notice before the beginning of an assigned shift for any absence. In the event there are more employees wanting to fill vacancies than there are vacancies, then an overtime equalization policy will be used to distribute the overtime. The goal of this policy is to ensure that every employee has opportunity to fill overtime vacancies. One way to accomplish this is to first make sure that all employees have an opportunity to volunteer for vacancies and in competitive situations, give priority to employee with the least amount of overtime.
Relief Coverage. A Charge Hand who is absent will be replaced by the next senior Partsperson, if qualified.
Relief Coverage. An employee who provides relief coverage for After Hours Coverage staff will be paid in the same manner as the After-Hours Coverage staff according to this addendum.
Relief Coverage. A Charge Hand who is absent will be replaced by the next senior Automotive and Heavy Vehicle Partsperson, if qualified.
Relief Coverage. Section 1. The Employer shall provide relief coverage during the time an employee is absent from duty to the extent needed in the opinion of the Employer to cover the workload.
Section 2. Work assignments, received during the period of absence, shall be completed by the person providing the relief coverage.
Relief Coverage. An employee who provides Paid Time Off or other relief for a co-worker under this alternative staffing agreement will be paid ten hours per shift at their regular rate of pay unless overtime is owed.
Relief Coverage. Employees of the office group and employees of the outside group shall relieve, when requested by management, within their respective groups for absences exceeding five (5) consecutive working days to a maximum of eight (8) weeks in order of seniority within the department as defined in Article 3.11 within which the employee works provided the employee has the particular training and qualifications necessary and can perform the job satisfactorily.
Relief Coverage a) When less than 24 hours advance notice is given for an unplanned absence, relief will be provided as follows:
1) the crew will move up to result in a vacancy at the lowest job
2) if the vacancy is not filled at Employees on the Relief Crew must be available for calls from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Employees on the Relief Crew who are not available for relief on a specified day will arrange for his own replacement for the Relief Crew.
b) For unplanned absences where 24 hours advance notice has been given and for planned short term absences, relief will be provided as follows:
1) the crew will move up to result in a vacancy which can be relieved at straight time from the Call In List or by cancelling training.
2) the employee shown as OFF on the schedule on the same job that week will be asked to cover the vacancy.
3) if the OFF employee refuses, the employee on the Relief Crew on the same job that week will be asked to cover the vacancy.
4) if the Relief Crew employee refuses, then an employee shown as OFF who is trained to do the job will be asked. If the absence is due to a request for a Floating Holiday or Mill Holiday and a replacement cannot be found, then the employee will be required to select another day which is mutually agreed upon between the employee and his Facilitator.
Relief Coverage. Registered Nurses hired into Vacation Relief/Flexible Positions will be available for vacation coverage on any shift. At no time will a nurse be required to cover a day, evening, and night shift in the same work week.
Relief Coverage. All absences from scheduled duty are contingent upon the employee making arrangements for relief coverage by another Investigator. As used herein, absences include time off for vacation, personal business, training and conferences and other such purposes. Investigators may trade additional shifts provided such trade would not unduly interfere with the operations of the Medical Examiner’s Office. The Investigators will obtain clearance from the Medical Examiner or designee of any such trades (except in emergency situations); however the Medical Examiner’s Office bears no responsibility for management of shift trade arrangements or resolution of disputes concerning relief shifts owed between Investigators.