Common use of Shift Assignment Clause in Contracts

Shift Assignment. 44.1 Officers assigned to the patrol division or other working units of the police department, wherein they are assigned to one (1) or more frozen (non-rotating) shifts, shall be assigned to one (1) of the frozen shifts by the following methodology: A. Once each year immediately prior to the annual selection of blocks of vacation, officers assigned to the Patrol Division or other working units with frozen shifts shall bid for their shift assignments. B. Assignments to frozen shifts shall be based upon consecutive length of service with the department and the selection methodology shall be the same as for vacation selection, except that Sergeants shall bid for shifts based upon their continuous service since last promotion. Sergeants shall bid as a group prior to patrol officers and corporals bidding as a single group. C. The assignment of an officer to a frozen shift shall not be changed between annual assignments, except pursuant to the provisions of this Article or by transfer of the officer to a different division or working unit of the police department. 44.2 Officers desiring to trade shift assignments for the remainder of an annual assignment term may do so by filing a request for trade with the division commander. Notice of such request shall be posted for ten (10) days. At the end of ten (10) days the officer may trade shifts with the most senior employee desiring the trade. If no officer agrees to trade, the officer requesting a trade shall remain with his frozen shift assignment. An officer may request a shift trade not more than once each six (6) month period. 44.3 A police officer transferred by the Chief of Police to a division or other working unit of the police department with frozen shifts, shall have the opportunity to select his shift assignment by bumping the least senior employee on the shift he desires, if there is no vacancy on such shift and if such bumped employee has less seniority than the bumping officer. A bumped officer shall exercise similar bumping rights within the same division or working unit; provided, however, that an officer assigned to a frozen shift from a different division or working unit after annual assignments may be assigned a frozen shift in another division or working unit based upon the operational needs of the Department on a temporary basis not to exceed eighty (80) work days in each calendar year. 44.4 The Chief of Police may transfer an officer from one frozen shift to another within the same division or working unit on a temporary basis not to exceed eighty