Common use of Relief Driver Positions Clause in Contracts

Relief Driver Positions. The Transportation Department will determine the number of Relief Driver positions in each year. 9.6.3.1 The Relief Driver position(s) will be a benefited position(s) and granted four (4) hours per day, Monday through Friday, at the regular driver’s rate of pay. All benefits will be awarded at the percentage level approved for four (4) hours per day or twenty (20) hours per week. Dispatch will assign routes as needed to fill in the four (4) hours on a daily basis. 9.6.3.2 The Relief Driver position(s) will be bid upon by the available substitute pool at the end of the bidding process of the regular routes each year, using the substitute seniority. No driver already established as a Regular Driver may bid on a Relief Driver position(s). 9.6.3.3 The Relief Driver position(s) will have a start time for AM and PM hours that will be determined by management and/or route assigned by Dispatch. There are no rights to refusal on assignments by the Relief Driver(s). 9.6.3.4 All other hours assigned to the Relief Driver position(s) by Dispatch, including Pre/Post time, cleaning and fueling, will be considered “Extra Hours” as per the CBA, not benefited, time sheets to be filled out appropriately by the Relief Driver, and any overtime that may occur due to the assigned “Extra Hours” will follow the process as per the CBA. That is by seniority, regular drivers first, relief drivers, temporary-regular drivers, then substitutes. 9.6.3.5 Seniority rights are granted from the date the route is awarded and the positon(s) may take part in Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday trips as per the CBA. Since the daily hours over the four (4) guaranteed are an unknown entity due to daily assignments by Dispatch, Relief Drivers can sign up on the “Trip Board” and/or the “Mid-Day Board” only as a communication to Dispatch that they are available that day, however, being that the Relief position will be placed only up to eight (8) hours per day and all effort will be made not to be placed on any given day into overtime, the signage does not guarantee assignments by Dispatch. Other regular drivers and/or substitutes must be utilized prior to overtime being assigned, and then all overtime is assigned by seniority as per the CBA. (see Section 9.6.3.4) 9.6.3.6 No mid-day will be attached to the Relief Driver position. 9.6.3.7 All Relief Drivers will be responsible for monitoring their daily work hours, and keep Dispatch informed for proper hourly assignments and may utilize the resources in the Transportation Office if there are questions about their hours. 9.6.3.8 In the following years, if there are not sufficient routes to bring the employee having filled a Relief Driver position into a regular position, the one with the most seniority will be able to bid a Relief Driver position first, otherwise it is expected that Relief Drivers will go on the annual bidding list for regular routes.

Relief Driver Positions. The Transportation Department will determine the number of Relief Driver positions in each year.year.‌ 9.6.3.1 The Relief Driver position(s) will be a benefited position(s) and granted four (4) hours per day, Monday through Friday, at the regular driver’s rate of pay. All benefits will be awarded at the percentage level approved for four (4) hours per day or twenty (20) hours per week. Dispatch will assign routes as needed to fill in the four (4) hours on a daily basis. 9.6.3.2 The Relief Driver position(s) will be bid upon by the available substitute pool at the end of the bidding process of the regular routes each year, using the substitute seniority. No driver already established as a Regular Driver may bid on a Relief Driver position(s). 9.6.3.3 The Relief Driver position(s) will have a start time for AM and PM hours that will be determined by management and/or route assigned by Dispatch. There are no rights to refusal on assignments by the Relief Driver(s). 9.6.3.4 All other hours assigned to the Relief Driver position(s) by Dispatch, including Pre/Post time, cleaning and fueling, will be considered “Extra Hours” as per the CBA, not benefited, time sheets to be filled out appropriately by the Relief Driver, and any overtime that may occur due to the assigned “Extra Hours” will follow the process as per the CBA. That is by seniority, regular drivers first, relief drivers, temporary-regular drivers, then substitutes. 9.6.3.5 Seniority rights are granted from the date the route is awarded and the positon(s) may take part in Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday trips as per the CBA. Since the daily hours over the four (4) guaranteed are an unknown entity due to daily assignments by Dispatch, Relief Drivers can sign up on the “Trip Board” and/or the “Mid-Day Board” only as a communication to Dispatch that they are available that day, however, being that the Relief position will be placed only up to eight (8) hours per day and all effort will be made not to be placed on any given day into overtime, the signage does not guarantee assignments by Dispatch. Other regular drivers and/or substitutes must be utilized prior to overtime being assigned, and then all overtime is assigned by seniority as per the CBA. (see Section 9.6.3.4) 9.6.3.6 No mid-day will be attached to the Relief Driver position. 9.6.3.7 All Relief Drivers will be responsible for monitoring their daily work hours, and keep Dispatch informed for proper hourly assignments and may utilize the resources in the Transportation Office if there are questions about their hours. 9.6.3.8 In the following years, if there are not sufficient routes to bring the employee having filled a Relief Driver position into a regular position, the one with the most seniority will be able to bid a Relief Driver position first, otherwise it is expected that Relief Drivers will go on the annual bidding list for regular routes.

Relief Driver Positions. The Transportation Department will determine the number of Relief Driver positions in each year. 9.6.3.1 The Relief Driver position(s) will be a benefited position(s) and granted four (4) hours per day, Monday through Friday, at the regular driver’s rate of pay. All benefits will be awarded at the percentage level approved for four (4) hours per day or twenty (20) hours per week. Dispatch will assign routes as needed to fill in the four (4) hours on a daily basis. 9.6.3.2 The Relief Driver position(s) will be bid upon by the available substitute pool at the end of the bidding process of the regular routes each year, using the substitute seniority. No driver already established as a Regular Driver may bid on a Relief Driver position(s). 9.6.3.3 The Relief Driver position(s) will have a start time for AM and PM hours that will be determined by management and/or route assigned by Dispatch. There are no rights to refusal on assignments by the Relief Driver(s). 9.6.3.4 All other hours assigned to the Relief Driver position(s) by Dispatch, including Pre/Post time, cleaning and fueling, will be considered “Extra Hours” as per the CBA, not benefited, time sheets to be filled out appropriately by the Relief Driver, and any overtime that may occur due to the assigned “Extra Hours” will follow the process as per the CBA. That is by seniority, regular drivers first, relief drivers, temporary-regular drivers, then substitutes. 9.6.3.5 Seniority rights are granted from the date the route is awarded and the positon(sposition(s) may take part in Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday trips as per the CBA. Since the daily hours over the four (4) guaranteed are an unknown entity due to daily assignments by Dispatch, Relief Drivers can sign up on the “Trip Board” and/or the “Mid-Day Board” only as a communication to Dispatch that they are available that day, however, being that the Relief position will be placed only up to eight (8) hours per day and all effort will be made not to be placed on any given day into overtime, the signage does not guarantee assignments by Dispatch. Other regular drivers and/or substitutes must be utilized prior to overtime being assigned, and then all overtime is assigned by seniority as per the CBA. (see Section 9.6.3.4) 9.6.3.6 No mid-day will be attached to the Relief Driver position. 9.6.3.7 All Relief Drivers will be responsible for monitoring their daily work hours, and keep Dispatch informed for proper hourly assignments and may utilize the resources in the Transportation Office if there are questions about their hours. 9.6.3.8 In the following years, if there are not sufficient routes to bring the employee having filled a Relief Driver position into a regular AFT CBA 2021-2024 pg. 22 position, the one with the most seniority will be able to bid a Relief Driver position first, otherwise it is expected that Relief Drivers will go on the annual bidding list for regular routes.