Common use of Relief Runs Clause in Contracts

Relief Runs. (a) The Authority may combine vacant runs resulting from the picking by regular trainpersons and buspersons of their scheduled days off into relief runs. A relief run shall be established from a combination of vacant runs occurring within any of the following groupings: early straight and swing runs; late straight and swing runs which start after 12:30 p.m.; and night liners. (b) A number of such relief runs as determined by the Authority, and any open hold-down runs, will be picked each month by extra trainpersons and buspersons who are entitled to pick such runs and who are available for work in the order of depot seniority. The relief runs will be operated by the extra persons who picked them for a period of one month starting the first Sunday of each month following such picking, unless there is a change in schedules. The open hold-down runs will be operated by the extra persons who picked them for a period of one month starting the first Sunday of each month following such picking, or until the trainperson or busperson to whom the run is regularly assigned returns to work, if one returns to work within such month. At the expiration of such month relief runs will be re- picked by extra persons who are entitled to pick such runs and who are available for work in the order of their district seniority. In the event schedule changes require a re-picking of relief runs prior to the expiration of any such monthly period, the relief runs will be re-picked in the same manner as the regular monthly picking of such runs. (c) During the period of assignment to a relief run an extra trainperson or busperson shall not be qualified to pick or be subject to a hold-down assignment.