Scheduling Unforeseen Hours. When additional hours not included in the biweekly bid process become available, those additional hours will be offered on a seniority basis to regular part time and unscheduled part time employees who do not have forty (40) hours per week scheduled. Those employees will have the option to bypass available hours when offered if there is a lower seniority employee available to take the offered hours and that employee will not go into overtime or violate the ten (10) hour rule. As a last resort, management reserves the right to assign hours in reverse seniority order on a mandatory basis to unscheduled part time employees. When none are available overtime will be offered to regular full time employees in seniority order. In addition to the option of bypassing work to less senior, unscheduled part time employees may decline work offered three (3) times per quarter. When an employee declines work that employee shall not be required to accept a new shift of work for twenty-four (24) hours from the start of the offered shift. Declining work a fourth (4th) time in a quarter will result in a written warning and further incidents of declining work shall be subjected to further progressive discipline consistent with Article 23.
