Shift Rotation Procedures. The following shift rotation procedures shall be adhered to during the duration of the agreement:
A. There shall be no change to the fifteen (15) day work period for the purposes of determining the effect of compensated and uncompensated absences on overtime eligibility and compensation.
B. When moving from C to B, B to A, or A to C shift, the overlap from the old cycle to the new cycle is five (5) days. This five (5) day overlap period shall be added to the new fifteen (15) day cycle, making it a twenty (20) day cycle. Overtime shall be paid at the rate of one-and-one-half times the employee's hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of one hundred fifty four (154) hours in the twenty (20) day cycle.
C. When moving from B to C, A to B, or C to A shift, the overlap from the old cycle to the new cycle is ten (10) days. This ten (10) day overlap period shall be added to the new fifteen (15) day cycle to make it a twenty-five (25) day cycle. Overtime shall be paid at the rate of one-and-one-half times the employee's hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of one hundred ninety-four (194) hours in the twenty-five (25) day cycle.
D. Scheduling procedures as to when personnel are rotated from one shift to another shall be set forth in Fountain Valley Fire Department Administrative Policy Guide No. 1-048.
Shift Rotation Procedures. Shift rotations of a temporary nature, which may be effected by the Hospital, will be implemented only in staffing situations in which patient care is jeopardized and after reasonable efforts have been made to contact Nurses regularly assigned to the shift to which rotation will occur to request that such staff cover the staffing need. Necessary shift rotations will be accomplished in the following manner:
1. Voluntary shift rotations will be requested of the Nurses assigned to the specific Unit and shift(s) from which Nurses may be rotated.
2. All usual and appropriate outside nursing resources will be exhausted.
3. To the extent that the staffing need is not met through the above, Nurses on the Unit and shift(s) from which Nurses may be rotated shall be rotated in inverse order of seniority.
