Rest Days. (a) A work week of forty (40) hours consisting of five (5) says of eight (8) hours each day is established with tow (2) consecutive rest days in each seven (7) subject to the following modifications; assignments with alternative work cycles encompassing ten (10) and/or twelve (12) hour work days may be established to meet operational requirements; the work week may be staggered in accordance with the Company’s operational requirements. (b) Regularly assigned employees shall be assigned two (2) rest days each week. Days of service may, on forty-eight (48) hours’ notice, be reassigned when necessary. However, a regularly assigned employee will, if required to work on either of this rest days be compensated for time worked during the hours of the regular assignment on such days at one-half times pro rata, except that when as a result of an employee exercising seniority rights, a regularly assigned employee works on six (6) or more consecutive days, pro rata will apply on such sixth and seventh consecutive days. The assigned rest days for regularly assigned employees except those swing assignments, shall be the forty-eight (48) hour period commencing eight (8) hours after completion of previous day’s work. (c) The rest day shall be consecutive as far as it possible consistent with the establishment of regular relief assignments and the avoidance of working an employee on an assigned rest day. Preference shall be give to Saturday and Sunday and then Sunday to Monday. In a dispute as to the necessity of departing from the pattern of two consecutive rest days or for granting rest days other than Saturday and Sunday or Sunday and Monday, it shall be incumbent on the Company to show that such departure is necessary to meet operational requirements and that otherwise additional relief service or working an employee on an assigned rest day will be involved. (d) Accumulation of Rest Days On positions where it is not reasonably practicable to provide regular relief each week, the rest day or days for which relief is not provided may be accumulated and granted at a later date in accordance with understanding worked out between the National Representative and the proper officer of the Company. (e) Non-Consecutive Days In the event that a situation arises which makes it impractical to assign consecutive rest days to all employees at a particular point the following procedure shall be followed: 1. All possible regular relief positions shall be established pursuant to Clause (g) of this Article. 2. Possible use of rest days other that Saturday, Sunday or Monday, where these may be required under this agreement, to be explored by the parties. 3. Accumulation of rest days under Clause (d) of this Article be considered. 4. Other suitable or practicable plans which may be suggested be either of the parties shall be considered and efforts made to come to an agreement thereon. 5. If the foregoing does not solve the problem, then some of the relief of extra men may be given non-consecutive rest days. 6. If after all the foregoing has been done, there still remains service which can only be performed by requiring employees to work in excess of five (5) days per week, the number of regular assignments necessary to avoid this may be made with two non-consecutive days off. 7. The lease desirable solution of this problem would be to work some regular employees on the sixth or seventh day at overtime rates and thus without hold work from additional relief men. (f) Work on Unassigned Days Where work is required by the company to be performed on a day which is not part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work that week. In all other cases by the regular employees.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Rest Days. (a) A work week of forty (40) hours consisting of five (5) says of eight (8) hours each day is established with tow (2) consecutive rest days in each seven (7) subject to the following modifications; assignments with alternative work cycles encompassing ten (10) and/or twelve (12) hour work days may be established to meet operational requirements; the work week may be staggered in accordance with the Company’s operational requirements.
(b) Regularly assigned employees shall be assigned two (2) rest days each week. Days of service may, on forty-eight (48) hours’ notice, be reassigned when necessary. However, a regularly assigned employee will, if required to work on either of this rest days be compensated for time worked during the hours of the regular assignment on such days at one-half times pro rata, except that when as a result of an employee exercising seniority rights, a regularly assigned employee works on six (6) or more consecutive days, pro rata will apply on such sixth and seventh consecutive days. The assigned rest days for regularly assigned employees except those swing assignments, shall be the forty-eight (48) hour period commencing eight (8) hours after completion of previous day’s work.
(c) The rest day shall be consecutive as far as it possible consistent with the establishment of regular relief assignments and the avoidance of working an employee on an assigned rest day. Preference shall be give to Saturday and Sunday and then Sunday to Monday. In a dispute as to the necessity of departing from the pattern of two consecutive rest days or for granting rest days other than Saturday and Sunday or Sunday and Monday, it shall be incumbent on the Company to show that such departure is necessary to meet operational requirements and that otherwise additional relief service or working an employee on an assigned rest day will be involved.
(d) Accumulation of Rest Days On positions where it is not reasonably practicable to provide regular relief each week, the rest day or days for which relief is not provided may be accumulated and granted at a later date in accordance with understanding worked out between the National Representative and the proper officer of the Company.
(e) Non-Consecutive Days In the event that a situation arises which makes it impractical to assign consecutive rest days to all employees at a particular point the following procedure shall be followed:
1. All possible regular relief positions shall be established pursuant to Clause (g) of this Article.
2. Possible use of rest days other that Saturday, Sunday or Monday, where these may be required under this agreement, to be explored by the parties.
3. Accumulation of rest days under Clause Xxxxxx (d) of this Article be considered.
4. Other suitable or practicable plans which may be suggested be either of the parties shall be considered and efforts made to come to an agreement thereon.
5. If the foregoing does not solve the problem, then some of the relief of extra men may be given non-consecutive rest days.
6. If after all the foregoing has been done, there still remains service which can only be performed by requiring employees to work in excess of five (5) days per week, the number of regular assignments necessary to avoid this may be made with two non-consecutive days off.
7. The lease desirable solution of this problem would be to work some regular employees on the sixth or seventh day at overtime rates and thus without hold work from additional relief men.
(f) Work on Unassigned Days Where work is required by the company to be performed on a day which is not part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work that week. In all other cases by the regular employees.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Rest Days. (a) A Unless otherwise excepted herein, a work week of for shall be forty (40) hours consisting of five (5) says days of eight (8) hours each day is established with tow (2) two consecutive rest days in each seven (7) subject to the following modifications; assignments with alternative . The work cycles encompassing ten (10) and/or twelve (12) hour work days may be established to meet operational requirements; the work week weeks may be staggered in with the Railway's operational requirements. This clause shall not be to create a guarantee of any number of hours or days of work not elsewhere provided for in this Agreement. rest days are subject to change in accordance with the Company’s operational requirements.
(b) Regularly assigned employees requirements of the service and not less than seventy- two hours' notice shall be assigned two (2) given affected. Requests senior employees that they be given preference in the assignment of rest days each weekwill be considered only when permanent changes in an and only if a change is practicable, having for the requirements of the service, availability of relief and other pertinent factors. Days Where no swing are employed, Sunday will be one of service may, on forty-eight (48) hours’ notice, be reassigned when necessarythe two assigned rest days. HoweverIf,owing to such change in rest days off duty, a regularly assigned employee will, if is required by the Railway to work on either of this rest more than five days per week, will be compensated paid overtime as per Article for time worked during the hours of the regular assignment on such days at one-half times pro rata, except that when as a result of an employee exercising seniority rights, a regularly assigned employee works on six (6) or more consecutive days, pro rata will apply on such sixth and seventh consecutive days. The assigned rest days for regularly assigned employees except those swing assignments, shall be the forty-eight (48) hour period commencing eight (8) hours after completion of previous day’s work.
(c) The rest day shall be consecutive as far as it is possible consistent with the establishment of regular relief assignments and the avoidance of working an employee a on an assigned rest day. Preference shall be give given to Saturday and Sunday and then Sunday to and Monday. In a any dispute as to the necessity of departing from the pattern of two consecutive rest days or for granting rest days other than Saturday and Sunday or Sunday and Monday, Monday it shall be incumbent on the Company Railway to show that such departure is necessary to meet operational requirements and that otherwise additional relief service or working an employee on an assigned rest day will be involved.
(d) Accumulation of Rest Days On positions where it is not reasonably practicable to provide regular relief each weekday, the rest day or days for which relief is not provided may be accumulated reliefis days and granted at a later date in accordance with understanding worked out between rest plans the National Representative and the proper officer of the Company.
(e) Non-Consecutive Days In the event that a situation arises which makes it impractical to assign consecutive rest days to all employees at a particular point the following procedure shall be followed:
1. All possible regular relief positions shall be established pursuant to Clause (g) of this Article.
2. Possible use of rest days other that Saturday, Sunday or Monday, where these may be required under this agreement, to be explored by the parties.
3. Accumulation of rest days under Clause (d) of this Article be considered.
4. Other suitable or practicable plans which may be suggested be either of the parties shall be considered and efforts made to come to an agreement thereon.
5. If the foregoing does not solve the problem, then some of the relief of extra men may be given non-consecutive rest days.
6. If after all the foregoing has been done, there still remains service which can only be performed by requiring employees to work in excess of five (5) days per week, the number of regular assignments necessary to avoid this may be made with two non-consecutive days off.
7. The lease non- least desirable solution of this the problem would be to work some regular employees on the sixth or seventh day days at overtime rates rate and thus without hold withhold work from additional relief menemployees. assigned; and the continuous twenty-four hour period as from the starting minute of the commencement hour of the assignment shall be substituted for such calendar day.
(f) Work on Unassigned Days Where work is required by the company to be performed on a day which is not part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work that week. In all other cases by the regular employees.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Rest Days. (a) A Except as otherwise provided in Article a work week of forty (40) hours consisting of five (5) says days of eight (8) hours each day is established with tow (2) two consecutive rest days days, in each seven (7) subject to the following modifications; assignments with alternative work cycles encompassing ten (10) and/or twelve (12) hour work days may be established to meet operational requirements; modification: the work week weeks may be staggered in accordance with the Company’s operational requirements.
(b) . Regularly assigned employees shall be assigned two (2) regular rest days each week. Days of service may, on forty-eight (48) hours’ notice, be reassigned when necessary. However, a Employees regularly assigned employee will, if required to work on either of this their rest days days, be compensated for time worked during the hours of the regular assignment on such days at one and one-half times the pro rata, rata rate except that when as a result of an employee employees exercising seniority rights, a regularly assigned employee works employees work on six (6) or more consecutive days, pro rata rate will apply on such sixth and seventh consecutive days. The assigned rest days for regularly assigned employees except those on swing assignments, assignments shall be the forty-eight (48) hour period commencing eight (8) hours after completion of the previous day’s work.
(c) . The rest day days shall be consecutive as far as it is possible consistent with the establishment of regular relief assignments and the avoidance of working an employee on an assigned rest day. Preference shall be give given to Saturday and Sunday and then to Sunday to and Monday. In a any dispute as to the necessity of departing from the pattern of two consecutive rest days or for granting rest days other than Saturday and Sunday or Sunday and Monday, Monday it shall be incumbent on the Company to show that such departure is necessary to meet operational requirements and that otherwise additional relief service or working an employee on an assigned rest day will would be involved.
(d) Accumulation of Rest Days On positions where it is not reasonably practicable to provide regular . Regularly assigned employees, excepting those holding swing or relief each weekassignments, the rest day or days for which relief is not provided may shall, as far as possible, be accumulated and granted at a later date given preference in accordance with understanding worked out between the National Representative and the proper officer of the Company.
(e) Non-Consecutive Days In the event that a situation arises which makes it impractical to assign consecutive rest days to all employees at a particular point the following procedure shall be followed:
1. All possible regular relief positions shall be established pursuant to Clause (g) of this Article.
2. Possible use choice of rest days other that Saturdayin order of seniority, Sunday or Monday, where these may be required under this agreement, to be explored by in the parties.
3. Accumulation of rest days under Clause (d) of this Article be considered.
4. Other suitable or practicable plans classification in which may be suggested be either of the parties shall be considered and efforts made to come to an agreement thereon.
5. If the foregoing does not solve the problem, then some of the relief of extra men may be given non-consecutive rest days.
6. If after all the foregoing has been done, there still remains service which can only be performed by requiring employees to work in excess of five (5) days per week, the number of regular assignments necessary to avoid this may be made with two non-consecutive days off.
7. The lease desirable solution of this problem would be to work some regular employees on the sixth or seventh day at overtime rates and thus without hold work from additional relief men.
(f) Work on Unassigned Days Where work is required by the company to be performed on a day which is not part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work that week. In all other cases by the regular employees.employed as follows:
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Samples: Employment Agreement
Rest Days. (a) A Unless otherwise herein, a work week consists of forty (40) hours consisting of five (5) says days of eight (8) hours each day is established with tow (2) consecutive rest days in each seven (7) subject to the following modifications; assignments with alternative work cycles encompassing ten (10) and/or twelve (12) hour work days may be established to meet operational requirements; the . The work week may be staggered in accordance with the Company’s operational System's requirements.
(b) Regularly assigned employees . This clause shall not be assigned two (2) construed create a guarantee of any number of hours or days of work not elsewhere provided for in this Agreement. Employees' rest days each weekare subject to change in accordance with the requirements of the service and not less than hours' notice shalt be employees affected. Days of service mayIf owing to such change rest days off duty, on forty-eight (48) hours’ notice, be reassigned when necessary. However, a regularly assigned an employee will, if is required by the System to work on either of this rest more than five days be compensated per week, will paid overtime as per Article for time worked during the hours of the regular assignment on such days at one-half times pro rata, except that when as a result of an employee exercising seniority rights, a regularly assigned employee works on six (6) or more consecutive days, pro rata will apply on such sixth and seventh consecutive days. The assigned rest days for regularly assigned employees except those swing assignments, shall be the forty-eight (48) hour period commencing eight (8) hours after completion of previous day’s work.
(c) The rest day shall be consecutive as far as it possible consistent with the establishment of regular relief assignments and the avoidance of working an employee on an assigned rest day. Preference shall be give given to Saturday and Sunday and then to Sunday to and Monday. In a any dispute as to the necessity of departing from the pattern of two consecutive rest days or for granting rest days other than Saturday and Sunday or Sunday and Monday, it shall be incumbent on the Company System to show that such departure is necessary to meet operational requirements and that otherwise additional relief service or working an employee on an as assigned rest day will would be involved.
(d) Accumulation of Rest Days . On positions where it is not reasonably practicable to provide regular relief each week, the one rest day or days day, for which relief is not provided provided, may be accumulated and granted at a later date in accordance with understanding worked out date. Such accumulation shall not exceed five days and rest days so shall be consecutively when five days have been accumulated. However, the accumulation of a greater number of rest days and their allowance at longer intervals may be arranged by mutual agreement between the National Representative of the System and the proper officer of the Company.
(e) NonAsst. Division Vice-Consecutive Days President. Positions on which rest days are to be accumulated shall be so In the event that a situation arises which makes it impractical It impracticable to assign consecutive rest days to all employees at a particular point all. employees, the following procedure shall be followed:
1. All possible regular relief positions shall be established pursuant to Clause (g) of this Article.
2. Possible use of rest days other that Saturday, Sunday or Monday, where these may be required under this agreement, to be explored by the parties.
3. Accumulation of rest days under Clause (d) of this Article be considered.
4. Other suitable or practicable plans which may be suggested be either of the parties shall be considered and efforts made to come to an agreement thereon.
5. If the foregoing does not solve the problem, then some of the relief of extra men may be given non-consecutive rest days.
6. If after all the foregoing has been done, there still remains service which can only be performed by requiring employees to work in excess of five (5) days per week, the number of regular assignments necessary to avoid this may be made with two non-consecutive days off.
7. The lease desirable solution of this problem would be to work some regular employees on the sixth or seventh day at overtime rates and thus without hold work from additional relief men.
(f) Work on Unassigned Days Where work is required by the company to be performed on a day which is not part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work that week. In all other cases by the regular employees.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement