Road Switcher Service. 12.1 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service will be paid in accordance with Article 2.2 of Agreement 4.16 and will be governed in accordance with the provisions as contained herein. 12.2 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not be tied-up en-route by the Company. 12.3 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements. 12.4 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty. 12.5 Employees may be run in and out and through their regularly assigned initial terminal without regard for rules defining completion of trips. Time is to be computed continuously from the time employees are required to report for duty until time released at completion of the day's work. 12.6 Employees in Road Switcher Service may be required to perform switching, transfer work and industrial work wholly within the recognized switching limits. 12.7 Eight hours or less shall constitute a basic day and time in excess of 8 hours will be paid for on the minute basis at overtime rates. Articles 35.6, 35.7 and 35.8 of Agreement 4.16 will apply to conductors/ brakemen in road switcher service. 12.8 Overtime shall be computed in Road Switcher service, in accordance with Article 8.4, from the time employees commence a trip or tour of duty, until the time they are released from duty at the completion of a trip or tour of duty. 12.9 The term "work week" for regularly assigned Road Switcher employees shall mean a week beginning at the start time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined. A work week of 40 hours shall consist of 5 consecutive 8 hour days with 2 consecutive days off in each 7 calendar day period. 12.10 Subject to Article 36, employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher Service will be paid not less than 40 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, at Road Switcher rates. Employees who work or are available for duty only a portion of the month on any run which is regularly assigned or regularly set up will be paid their full proportion of the monthly guarantee provided for such run. NOTE: Except as provided by Article 49, earnings made by an employee when used off his/her regular assignment due to a shortage of employees, will not be used to make up such an employee’s guarantee. 12.11 Regularly assigned Road Switcher shall have a fixed starting time. Such starting time may be changed by no more than 2 hours from the original start time, provided 24 hours notice of such change is given to the assigned crew. 12.12 In the application of Article 51.11(a), employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher service shall have the right upon going off duty to book a minimum of 2 hours rest and a maximum of 12 hours rest, excluding call time. Article 51.1 of agreement 4.16 is still applicable. 12.13 Except as provided in Article 12.11, regular assigned Road Switcher employees assigned to regular shifts who are required to commence work on a second tour of duty within 24 hours of the starting time of a preceding shift paid for at straight-time rates will be paid for the second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight-time rate. 12.14 Spare employees required to commence a tour of duty in Road Switcher or Yard Service within an interval of less than 8 hours from the completion of work of a previous Road Switcher or Yard shift will be paid for the time worked for such second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight- time rate. 12.15 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, Service under Collective Agreements 1.1, 4.2, 4.16 with respect to Road Switcher Service and Yard Service will be restricted to 5 days in a work week when qualified relief employees who have not worked 5 days in the work week are available at straight-time rates. 12.16 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, employees in Road Switcher Service or Yard Service, who work more than 5 straight-time shifts in any classification, under either Agreements 1.1, 4.2 or 4.16, in a work week shall be paid one and one-half times the straight-time rate for such shifts. The term “work week” for regularly assigned employees shall mean a week beginning at the starting time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined to work and for spare employees, shall mean a period of 7 consecutive days starting at 0001 on Monday. 12.17 When service is required by the Company on the rest days of regular assigned Road Switcher Crews or Yard Crews, such may be performed by other regular Road Switcher or Yard Assignments, by regular Relief Assignments, by a combination of Regular Road Switcher, Yard and Regular Relief Assignments or by spare employees. When not protecting in the foregoing manner, Regular Relief Assignments will be governed as follows: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, where regular relief assignments are established they: (1) May have 5 consecutive days work on the same shift: or (2) May have 5 consecutive days work on different shifts; and/or (3) May have different starting times on different days provided such starting times are those of the employees relieved. (b) The following combinations may be bulletined to provide relief where necessitated by Company operations: (1) Road Switcher Assignments/Yard Assignments 12.18 Customer Service Assignments (CSAs) are assignments which perform service within CSA limits as defined in Paragraph 12.21 herein. CSA service is a single class of service which amends Yard and Road Switcher Service at Moncton, Halifax, Saint Xxxx, Edmundston and Joffre (east). 12.19 The Yard and Road Switcher provisions of the 4.16 Agreement shall apply unless specifically modified herein. 12.20 Time keeping profiles will be standard for all CSA assignments and will automatically compensate eligible employees. Such automatically generated compensation will include, if applicable, payments for preparatory and inspection/final time, overtime, unit allowance and shift differential. 12.21 CSA limits are defined as those limits encompassed within a terminal and, in addition, within a 50 mile radius of the point required to report for duty. Employees ordered to perform service of any type exclusively within these limits will be compensated and governed by the rules applicable to CSA service as contained herein. 12.22 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not be tied-up enroute by the Company. 12.23 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements. 12.24 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty. 12.25 CSA limits are not to be confused with existing Switching Limits. Switching limits are not intended to prevent employees in road service from performing switching required solely in connection with their own train or yarding their train in accordance with schedule rules. 12.26 The mileages of both CSA limits and switching limits for each terminal will be posted at all locations where CSA assignments report for duty. 12.27 Employees will be allowed meals in the following manner: (i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with former road switcher rules as contained herein. (ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with yard rules as contained herein. 12.28 Basic weekly pay, where applicable for maintenance of earnings, will be calculated in the following manner: (i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein. (ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein. 12.29 Employees in CSA service will be entitled to rest in the following manner: (i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein. (ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside the established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein. 12.30 Unassigned employees cancelled after reporting for duty will retain their relative position on the Spareboard and will be entitled to book up to 8 hours rest. Employees who book more than 8 hours rest will be placed to the bottom of the Spareboard.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Road Switcher Service.
12.1 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service will be paid in accordance with Article 2.2 of Agreement 4.16 and will be governed in accordance with the provisions as contained herein.
12.2 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not be tied-up en-route by the Company.
12.3 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements.
12.4 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty.
12.5 Employees may be run in and out and through their regularly assigned initial terminal without regard for rules defining completion of trips. Time is to be computed continuously from the time employees are required to report for duty until time released at completion of the day's work.
12.6 Employees in Road Switcher Service may be required to perform switching, transfer work and industrial work wholly within the recognized switching limits.
12.7 Eight hours or less shall constitute a basic day and time in excess of 8 hours will be paid for on the minute basis at overtime rates. Articles 35.6, 35.7 and 35.8 of Agreement 4.16 will apply to conductors/ brakemen in road switcher service.
12.8 Overtime shall be computed in Road Switcher service, in accordance with Article 8.4, from the time employees commence a trip or tour of duty, until the time they are released from duty at the completion of a trip or tour of duty.
12.9 The term "work week" for regularly assigned Road Switcher employees shall mean a week beginning at the start time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined. A work week of 40 hours shall consist of 5 consecutive 8 hour days with 2 consecutive days off in each 7 calendar day period.
12.10 Subject to Article 36, employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher Service will be paid not less than 40 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, at Road Switcher rates. Employees who work or are available for duty only a portion of the month on any run which is regularly assigned or regularly set up will be paid their full proportion of the monthly guarantee provided for such run. NOTE: Except as provided by Article 49, earnings made by an employee when used off his/her regular assignment due to a shortage of employees, will not be used to make up such an employee’s guarantee.
12.11 Regularly assigned Road Switcher shall have a fixed starting time. Such starting time may be changed by no more than 2 hours from the original start time, provided 24 hours notice of such change is given to the assigned crew.
12.12 In the application of Article 51.11(a), employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher service shall have the right upon going off duty to book a minimum of 2 hours rest and a maximum of 12 hours rest, excluding call time. Article 51.1 of agreement 4.16 is still applicable.
12.13 Except as provided in Article 12.11, regular assigned Road Switcher employees assigned to regular shifts who are required to commence work on a second tour of duty within 24 hours of the starting time of a preceding shift paid for at straight-time rates will be paid for the second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight-time rate.
12.14 Spare employees required to commence a tour of duty in Road Switcher or Yard Service within an interval of less than 8 hours from the completion of work of a previous Road Switcher or Yard shift will be paid for the time worked for such second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight- straight-time rate.
12.15 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, Service under Collective Agreements 1.1, 4.2, 4.16 with respect to Road Switcher Service and Yard Service will be restricted to 5 days in a work week when qualified relief employees who have not worked 5 days in the work week are available at straight-time rates.
12.16 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, employees in Road Switcher Service or Yard Service, who work more than 5 straight-time shifts in any classification, under either Agreements 1.1, 4.2 or 4.16, in a work week shall be paid one and one-half times the straight-time rate for such shifts. The term “"work week” " for regularly assigned employees shall mean a week beginning at the starting time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined to work and for spare employees, shall mean a period of 7 consecutive days starting at 0001 on Monday.
12.17 When service is required by the Company on the rest days of regular assigned Road Switcher Crews or Yard Crews, such may be performed by other regular Road Switcher or Yard Assignments, by regular Relief Assignments, by a combination of Regular Road Switcher, Yard and Regular Relief Assignments or by spare employees. When not protecting in the foregoing manner, Regular Relief Assignments will be governed as follows:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, where regular relief assignments are established they:
(1) May have 5 consecutive days work on the same shift: or
(2) May have 5 consecutive days work on different shifts; and/or
(3) May have different starting times on different days provided such starting times are those of the employees relieved.
(b) The following combinations may be bulletined to provide relief where necessitated by Company operations:
(1) Road Switcher Assignments/Yard AssignmentsAssignments Paragraphs 12.18 to 12.30 are applicable to Customer Service Assignments (Atlantic Canada) Only.
12.18 Customer Service Assignments (CSAs) are assignments which perform service within CSA limits as defined in Paragraph 12.21 herein. CSA service is a single class of service which amends Yard and Road Switcher Service at Moncton, Halifax, Saint Xxxx, Edmundston and Joffre (east).
12.19 The Yard and Road Switcher provisions of the 4.16 Agreement shall apply unless specifically modified herein.
12.20 Time keeping profiles will be standard for all CSA assignments and will automatically compensate eligible employees. Such automatically generated compensation will include, if applicable, payments for preparatory and inspection/final time, overtime, unit allowance and shift differential.
12.21 CSA limits are defined as those limits encompassed within a terminal and, in addition, within a 50 mile radius of the point required to report for duty. Employees ordered to perform service of any type exclusively within these limits will be compensated and governed by the rules applicable to CSA service as contained herein.
12.22 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not be tied-up enroute by the Company.
12.23 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements.
12.24 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty.
12.25 CSA limits are not to be confused with existing Switching Limits. Switching limits are not intended to prevent employees in road service from performing switching required solely in connection with their own train or yarding their train in accordance with schedule rules.
12.26 The mileages of both CSA limits and switching limits for each terminal will be posted at all locations where CSA assignments report for duty.
12.27 Employees will be allowed meals in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with former road switcher rules as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with yard rules as contained herein.
12.28 Basic weekly pay, where applicable for maintenance of earnings, will be calculated in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein.
12.29 Employees in CSA service will be entitled to rest in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside the established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein.
12.30 Unassigned employees cancelled after reporting for duty will retain their relative position on the Spareboard and will be entitled to book up to 8 hours rest. Employees who book more than 8 hours rest will be placed to the bottom of the Spareboard.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Road Switcher Service. 12.1 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service will be paid in accordance with Article 2.2 of Agreement 4.16 and will be governed in accordance with the provisions as contained herein.
12.2 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not be tied-up en-route by the Company.
12.3 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements.
12.4 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty.
12.5 Employees may be run in and out and through their regularly assigned initial terminal without regard for rules defining completion of trips. Time is to be computed continuously from the time employees are required to report for duty until time released at completion of the day's work.
12.6 Employees in Road Switcher Service may be required to perform switching, transfer work and industrial work wholly within the recognized switching limits.
12.7 Eight hours or less shall constitute a basic day and time in excess of 8 hours will be paid for on the minute basis at overtime rates. Articles 35.6, 35.7 and 35.8 of Agreement 4.16 will apply to conductors/ brakemen in road switcher service.
12.8 Overtime shall be computed in Road Switcher service, in accordance with Article 8.4, from the time employees commence a trip or tour of duty, until the time they are released from duty at the completion of a trip or tour of duty.
12.9 The term "work week" for regularly assigned Road Switcher employees shall mean a week beginning at the start time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined. A work week of 40 hours shall consist of 5 consecutive 8 hour days with 2 consecutive days off in each 7 calendar day period.
12.10 Subject to Article 36, employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher Service will be paid not less than 40 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, at Road Switcher rates. Employees who work or are available for duty only a portion of the month on any run which is regularly assigned or regularly set up will be paid their full proportion of the monthly guarantee provided for such run. NOTE: Except as provided by Article 49, earnings made by an employee when used off his/her regular assignment due to a shortage of employees, will not be used to make up such an employee’s guarantee.
12.11 Regularly assigned Road Switcher shall have a fixed starting time. Such starting time may be changed by no more than 2 hours from the original start time, provided 24 hours notice of such change is given to the assigned crew.
12.12 In the application of Article 51.11(a), employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher service shall have the right upon going off duty to book a minimum of 2 hours rest and a maximum of 12 hours rest, excluding call time. Article 51.1 of agreement 4.16 is still applicable.
12.13 Except as provided in Article 12.11, regular assigned Road Switcher employees assigned to regular shifts who are required to commence work on a second tour of duty within 24 hours of the starting time of a preceding shift paid for at straight-time rates will be paid for the second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight-time rate.
12.14 Spare employees required to commence a tour of duty in Road Switcher or Yard Service within an interval of less than 8 hours from the completion of work of a previous Road Switcher or Yard shift will be paid for the time worked for such second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight- straight-time rate.
12.15 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, Service under Collective Agreements 1.1, 4.2, 4.16 with respect to Road Switcher Service and Yard Service will be restricted to 5 days in a work week when qualified relief employees who have not worked 5 days in the work week are available at straight-time rates.
12.16 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, employees in Road Switcher Service or Yard Service, who work more than 5 straight-time shifts in any classification, under either Agreements 1.1, 4.2 or 4.16, in a work week shall be paid one and one-half times the straight-time rate for such shifts. The term “work week” for regularly assigned employees shall mean a week beginning at the starting time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined to work and for spare employees, shall mean a period of 7 consecutive days starting at 0001 on Monday.
12.17 When service is required by the Company on the rest days of regular assigned Road Switcher Crews or Yard Crews, such may be performed by other regular Road Switcher or Yard Assignments, by regular Relief Assignments, by a combination of Regular Road Switcher, Yard and Regular Relief Assignments or by spare employees. When not protecting in the foregoing manner, Regular Relief Assignments will be governed as follows:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, where regular relief assignments are established they:
(1) May have 5 consecutive days work on the same shift: or
(2) May have 5 consecutive days work on different shifts; and/or
(3) May have different starting times on different days provided such starting times are those of the employees relieved.
(b) The following combinations may be bulletined to provide relief where necessitated by Company operations:
(1) Road Switcher Assignments/Yard Assignments
12.18 Customer Service Assignments (CSAs) are assignments which perform service within CSA limits as defined in Paragraph 12.21 herein. CSA service is a single class of service which amends Yard and Road Switcher Service at Moncton, Halifax, Saint Xxxx, Edmundston and Joffre (east).
12.19 The Yard and Road Switcher provisions of the 4.16 Agreement shall apply unless specifically modified herein.
12.20 Time keeping profiles will be standard for all CSA assignments and will automatically compensate eligible employees. Such automatically generated compensation will include, if applicable, payments for preparatory and inspection/final time, overtime, unit allowance and shift differential.
12.21 CSA limits are defined as those limits encompassed within a terminal and, in addition, within a 50 mile radius of the point required to report for duty. Employees ordered to perform service of any type exclusively within these limits will be compensated and governed by the rules applicable to CSA service as contained herein.
12.22 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not be tied-up enroute by the Company.
12.23 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements.
12.24 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty.
12.25 CSA limits are not to be confused with existing Switching Limits. Switching limits are not intended to prevent employees in road service from performing switching required solely in connection with their own train or yarding their train in accordance with schedule rules.
12.26 The mileages of both CSA limits and switching limits for each terminal will be posted at all locations where CSA assignments report for duty.
12.27 Employees will be allowed meals in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with former road switcher rules as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with yard rules as contained herein.
12.28 Basic weekly pay, where applicable for maintenance of earnings, will be calculated in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein.
12.29 Employees in CSA service will be entitled to rest in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside the established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein.
12.30 Unassigned employees cancelled after reporting for duty will retain their relative position on the Spareboard and will be entitled to book up to 8 hours rest. Employees who book more than 8 hours rest will be placed to the bottom of the Spareboard.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Road Switcher Service. 12.1 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service will be paid in accordance with Article 2.2 of Agreement 4.16 and will be governed in accordance with the provisions as contained herein.
12.2 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not be tied-up en-route by the Company.
12.3 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements.
12.4 Employees operating in Road Switcher Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty.
12.5 Employees may be run in and out and through their regularly assigned initial terminal without regard for rules defining completion of trips. Time is to be computed continuously from the time employees are required to report for duty until time released at completion of the day's work.
12.6 Employees in Road Switcher Service may be required to perform switching, transfer work and industrial work wholly within the recognized switching limits.
12.7 Eight hours or less shall constitute a basic day and time in excess of 8 hours will be paid for on the minute basis at overtime rates. Articles 35.6, 35.7 and 35.8 of Agreement 4.16 will apply to conductors/ brakemen in road switcher service.
12.8 Overtime shall be computed in Road Switcher service, in accordance with Article 8.4, from the time employees commence a trip or tour of duty, until the time they are released from duty at the completion of a trip or tour of duty.
12.9 The term "work week" for regularly assigned Road Switcher employees shall mean a week beginning at the start time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined. A work week of 40 hours shall consist of 5 consecutive 8 hour days with 2 consecutive days off in each 7 calendar day period.
12.10 Subject to Article 36, employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher Service will be paid not less than 40 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, at Road Switcher rates. Employees who work or are available for duty only a portion of the month on any run which is regularly assigned or regularly set up will be paid their full proportion of the monthly guarantee provided for such run. NOTE: Except as provided by Article 49, earnings made by an employee when used off his/her regular assignment due to a shortage of employees, will not be used to make up such an employee’s guarantee.
12.11 Regularly assigned Road Switcher shall have a fixed starting time. Such starting time may be changed by no more than 2 hours from the original start time, provided 24 hours notice of such change is given to the assigned crew.
12.12 In the application of Article 51.11(a), employees regularly assigned to Road Switcher service shall have the right upon going off duty to book a minimum of 2 hours rest and a maximum of 12 hours rest, excluding call time. Article 51.1 of agreement 4.16 is still applicable.
12.13 Except as provided in Article 12.11, regular assigned Road Switcher employees assigned to regular shifts who are required to commence work on a second tour of duty within 24 hours of the starting time of a preceding shift paid for at straight-time rates will be paid for the second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight-time rate.
12.14 Spare employees required to commence a tour of duty in Road Switcher or Yard Service within an interval of less than 8 hours from the completion of work of a previous Road Switcher or Yard shift will be paid for the time worked for such second tour of duty at one and one-half times the straight- straight-time rate.
12.15 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, Service under Collective Agreements 1.1, 4.2, 4.16 with respect to Road Switcher Service and Yard Service will be restricted to 5 days in a work week when qualified relief employees who have not worked 5 days in the work week are available at straight-time rates.
12.16 Except as otherwise provided in Article 12 of Agreement 4.16, employees in Road Switcher Service or Yard Service, who work more than 5 straight-time shifts in any classification, under either Agreements 1.1, 4.2 or 4.16, in a work week shall be paid one and one-half times the straight-time rate for such shifts. The term “work week” ―work week‖ for regularly assigned employees shall mean a week beginning at the starting time on the first day on which the assignment is bulletined to work and for spare employees, shall mean a period of 7 consecutive days starting at 0001 on Monday.
12.17 When service is required by the Company on the rest days of regular assigned Road Switcher Crews or Yard Crews, such may be performed by other regular Road Switcher or Yard Assignments, by regular Relief Assignments, by a combination of Regular Road Switcher, Yard and Regular Relief Assignments or by spare employees. When not protecting in the foregoing manner, Regular Relief Assignments will be governed as follows:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, where regular relief assignments are established they:
(1) May have 5 consecutive days work on the same shift: or
(2) May have 5 consecutive days work on different shifts; and/or
(3) May have different starting times on different days provided such starting times are those of the employees relieved.
(b) The following combinations may be bulletined to provide relief where necessitated by Company operations:
(1) Road Switcher Assignments/Yard Assignments
12.18 Customer Service Assignments (CSAs) are assignments which perform service within CSA limits as defined in Paragraph 12.21 herein. CSA service is a single class of service which amends Yard and Road Switcher Service at Moncton, Halifax, Saint Xxxx, Edmundston and Joffre (east).
12.19 The Yard and Road Switcher provisions of the 4.16 Agreement shall apply unless specifically modified herein.
12.20 Time keeping profiles will be standard for all CSA assignments and will automatically compensate eligible employees. Such automatically generated compensation will include, if applicable, payments for preparatory and inspection/final time, overtime, unit allowance and shift differential.
12.21 CSA limits are defined as those limits encompassed within a terminal and, in addition, within a 50 mile radius of the point required to report for duty. Employees ordered to perform service of any type exclusively within these limits will be compensated and governed by the rules applicable to CSA service as contained herein.
12.22 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not be tied-up enroute by the Company.
12.23 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not run into other terminals or do work on territory under jurisdictional control of another terminal. Note: However, it is understood that there may be rare and extenuating circumstances where it may be required to operate in another terminal to meet immediate customer requirements.
12.24 Employees operating in CSA Service shall not exceed a radius of fifty (50) miles from the point required to report for duty.
12.25 CSA limits are not to be confused with existing Switching Limits. Switching limits are not intended to prevent employees in road service from performing switching required solely in connection with their own train or yarding their train in accordance with schedule rules.
12.26 The mileages of both CSA limits and switching limits for each terminal will be posted at all locations where CSA assignments report for duty.
12.27 Employees will be allowed meals in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with former road switcher rules as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will be entitled to a meal period consistent with yard rules as contained herein.
12.28 Basic weekly pay, where applicable for maintenance of earnings, will be calculated in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside established switching limits will have their basic weekly pay established consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein.
12.29 Employees in CSA service will be entitled to rest in the following manner:
(i) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately outside established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to road switcher service as contained herein.
(ii) Employees in service which is designed to perform work which is predominately inside the established switching limits will be entitled to rest consistent with the rules applicable to yard service as contained herein.
12.30 Unassigned employees cancelled after reporting for duty will retain their relative position on the Spareboard and will be entitled to book up to 8 hours rest. Employees who book more than 8 hours rest will be placed to the bottom of the Spareboard.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
