Common use of System Board Hearings Clause in Contracts

System Board Hearings. 1. System Board hearings will take place in the city where the general offices of the Company are located or another site mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union. 2. The Chairperson will preside at the System Board hearing and will be responsible for scheduling the hearing on a date mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union and guiding the parties in the presentation of testimony, exhibits and argument at the hearing. 3. The Union shall provide the Company with notice of its necessary participants in a System Board hearing sufficient to include such absence in the Flight Attendant’s preferential bid schedule. When such notice may not reasonably be provided, Flight Attendants that are necessary Union participants at a System Board hearing will be released from duty, when necessary, in order to attend the hearing, so long as such release will not unreasonably interfere with the operations of the Company. 4. Unless the Company and the Union agree upon a combination of grievances to be presented to the System Board, each grievance will be presented as a separate case. 5. The reasonable expenses and reasonable compensation of the Chairperson will be borne equally by the Company and the Union. The Company and the Union will also equally share the cost of the hearing meeting room. Each of the parties will assume the compensation, travel expense and other expenses of the System Board member selected by it, witnesses called by it, and its participants at the hearing (including attorney’s fees). 6. A stenographic report of a System Board hearing will be taken unless mutually agreed otherwise, with the cost to be borne equally by the Company and the Union. 7. A majority vote of the members of the System Board shall be competent to reach a decision. Decisions of the Board properly referable to it shall be final and binding.

System Board Hearings. 1. System Board hearings will take place in the city where the general offices of the Company are located located, or another site mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union. 2. The Chairperson will preside at the System Board hearing and will be responsible for scheduling the hearing on a date mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union and guiding the parties in the presentation of testimony, exhibits and argument at the hearing. 3. The Union shall provide the Company with notice of its necessary participants in a System Board hearing sufficient to include such absence in the Flight Attendant’s preferential bid schedule. When such notice may not reasonably be provided, Flight Attendants that are necessary Union participants at a System Board hearing will be released from duty, when necessary, in order to attend the hearing, so long as such release will not unreasonably interfere with the operations of the Company. 4. The Union and the Company shall have the right to be represented at System Board hearings by such persons as they may choose and designate. 5. Evidence may be presented either orally, in writing, or both. The parties may present witnesses to testify as to matters that are relevant to the dispute. 6. Unless the Company and the Union agree upon a combination of grievances to be presented to the System Board, each grievance will be presented as a separate case. 57. The reasonable expenses and reasonable compensation of the Chairperson will be borne equally by the Company and the Union. The Company and the Union will also equally share the cost of the hearing meeting room. Each of the parties will assume the compensation, travel expense and other expenses of the System Board member selected by it, witnesses called by it, and its participants at the hearing (including attorney’s fees)hearing. 68. A When it is mutually agreed that a stenographic report of a System Board hearing will is to be taken unless mutually agreed otherwisetaken, with the cost to will be borne equally by the Company and the Union. In the event it is not mutually agreed that a stenographic report of a System Board proceeding will be taken, any transcript made by either of the parties shall be furnished to the other party upon request, provided that the cost of such transcript shall be borne equally by the parties. 79. Each System Board member will be free to discharge her/his duty in an independent manner, without fear that her/his relations with the Company or the Union may be affected in any manner by any action taken by her/him in good faith in her/his capacity as a Board member. 10. A majority vote of the members of the System Board shall be competent to reach a decision. Decisions of the Board properly referable to it shall be final and binding.