Shift from Elapsed Time Method to an Hours of Service method. If the service crediting method changes from the Elapsed Time Method to an Hours of Service method, each Employee’s Years of Service under the Hours of Service method is the sum of the amounts under subsections (1) and (2) below.
(1) The number of Years of Service credited under the Elapsed Time Method as of the date of the change.
(2) For the computation period in which the change to the Hours of Service method occurs, the portion of that computation period in which the Elapsed Time Method was in effect is converted into an equivalent number of Hours of Service, using the Equivalency Method described in Section 6.5(a). For the remainder of the computation period, actual Hours of Service are counted, unless the Equivalency Method has been elected in Part 7 of the Agreement. The Hours of Service deemed credited for the portion of the computation period in which the Elapsed Time Method was in effect are added to the actual Hours of Service credited for the remaining portion of the computation period to determine if the Employee has a Year of Service for that computation period. If the change to the Hours of Service method occurs as of the first day of a computation period, then the determination as to whether an Employee has completed a Year of Service for the first computation period that the change is in effect is based solely on the Hours of Service method.
