Spare Boards. 7.1 Spare Boards may be established as required under conditions to be arranged between the proper officer of the Corporation and the designated National or Regional Representative of the Union.
Spare Boards. Spare boards may be established as required under conditions to be arranged between the proper officer of the Company and the designated Representative of the Union.
Spare Boards.
21.1 Employees on the Switchperson Spareboard (Xxxxxxx and Utility positions), or Locomotive Engineer Spare Board, will be available for service seven (7) days a week on a first in, first out basis until such time as the Spareboard employee accumulates forty (40) straight time hours per week on the spare board.
21.2 While on the Spareboard, employees will be guaranteed eight (8) shifts per two-week period.
21.3 These two weeks will follow the pay period schedule as noted in the collective agreement.
21.4 The guarantee will be reduced by one shift for each missed call and/or missed work opportunity per pay period.
21.5 When a Spareboard employee works a shift, the guarantee will be reduced by the number of shifts worked.
21.6 As soon as a Spareboard employee accumulates their 40 hours per week, TTR may run around them and use other Spareboard employees from the respective spareboard who have not yet accumulated forty (40) straight time hours per week. If the Company has exhausted the calling procedure for straight time on a respective spareboard, it may call qualified employees on either the switch person or locomotive engineer spare board who have not yet accumulated forty (40) straight time hours per week.
21.7 Once TTR has called all the spare board employees who have less than forty (40) accumulated straight time hours per week, it will fill vacant assignments in seniority order by those regularly assigned employees who have less than forty (40) straight time hours per week accumulated and who wish to work the extra assignments, temporary vacancies, and those assignments not filled through the bulletining process when there is no conflict with filling that employee's regular assignment.
21.8 Once it has exhausted these methods, it will then offer employees assignments on an overtime basis in seniority order.
21.9 If no one from the spare boards or the regularly assigned employees are available, TTR may call persons on the auxiliary board to fill the assignment.
21.10 When a spare board employee books off on call or misses a call, they will be off the spare board for a minimum of eight (8) hours from the assignment start time. At the expiration of eight (8) hours, TTR will place them on the bottom of the spare board. This will not preclude TTR' use of the employee prior to the expiration of eight (8) hours if there are no other employees available to work at straight time.
21.11 A spare board employee, if run around, will be entitled to eight (8) hours...
Spare Boards. 7.1 Spare boards may be established as required under conditions to be arranged between the proper officer of the Company and the Regional Vice-President of the Brotherhood.
Spare Boards. 17.1 Spare boards may be established as required by the Company. When so established, spare boards will be operated in conformance with the provisions of this article. It is understood that spare boards shall not be utilized so as to replace or avoid regular assignments.
17.2 Spare boards shall be utilized to perform relief and extra work of eight hours duration or more and, where no qualified part time employees are available, for relief and extra work of less than eight hours duration.
17.3 For the purposes of this collective agreement, employees assigned to the spare board are considered to be occupying permanent assignments.
17.4 Employees assigned to a spare board should be qualified to perform the work of all the classifications protected by that spare board. If employees are not qualified in all the classifications, they will be required to so qualify and the training will be covered by Article 9 of this Agreement.
17.5 When required to work in accordance with this article, spare board employees will be paid for all time worked at the rate of the classification in which the work is performed.
17.6 In the application of the annual vacation, general holiday and bereavement leave provisions of this Collective Agreement, employees will be paid at the equipment operators' rate.
17.7 The work week for spare board employees is a calendar week beginning on each Friday.
17.8 Spare board employees will be entitled to overtime rates:
(a) For all hours in excess of forty (40) after accumulating forty (40) hours at straight time rates in the work week.
(b) For all hours worked on a second assignment when required to commence such second work assignment without an interval of eight hours or more between the completion of work on the previous work assignment and the time required to report for duty on the second.
(c) Where a spare board employee relieves on a regular assignment, for all hours in excess of the regular assigned hours of such assignment.
(d) Where a spare board employee works on an extra assignment, for all hours in excess of eight. Guarantee
17.9 The guarantee period shall be a period of one calendar week beginning on Friday.
17.10 While assigned to the spare board, an employee will be guaranteed wages for each guarantee period in the amount of 40 hours at the equipment operators' rate, subject to the provisions of paragraph 17.12. In cases where the employee is assigned to the spare board for only a portion of the guarantee period, the guarantee wi...
