Ten or Twelve Hour Shifts. The Hospital may establish flexible scheduling plans based on department need and employee interest that provide for work schedules of 10 or 12 hour shifts. Plans established under this section shall be subject to the following conditions:
a. Upon request from employees or leaders, a department may create 10 or 12 hour shifts. If requested, the interested parties (consisting of the department leaders, union representative, and employees) will meet and jointly explore the 10 or 12 hour shift option and develop parameters for such shifts. The parameters shall be reduced to writing and may include a trial period.
b. An employee may only work the 10 or 12 hour shift voluntarily and if mutually agreed between the employer and employee. The employee must sign a written agreement that the employee voluntarily agreed to work the 10 or 12 hour flexible work schedule. Non-participating employees within a department will remain on eight hour shifts.
c. If a replacement is required because the employee is absent, the 10 or 12 shift may be split up into two five-hour shifts or two six-hour shifts. An employee in the 10 to 12 hour shift program may also trade or switch with an employee who does not participate in the program, but that employee must agree in writing to receive overtime only for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a week. An employee may not change his or her overtime rules more than once each calendar quarter.
d. Based on the operational needs of the department, holidays may be scheduled for eight hour shifts or 10 or 12 hour shifts. If the holiday is scheduled for eight hour shifts, the employees assigned to the 10 or 12 hour flexible work schedule may work 8 hours and take PTO or benefit-no-pay to make up the difference.
e. An employee may agree to work shifts in addition to those he or she is scheduled under the 10 or 12 hour shift program in accordance with the Extra Hours Section of this Agreement.
f. An employee may revoke her or his consent to the 10 or 12 hour shift pursuant to this program by giving the Hospital written notice of six weeks or a period of time equal to the length of time normally covered by the Hospital’s posted schedule of work hours, whichever is less, prior to the revocation. The employee shall be entitled to return to an open position for which the employee is qualified under the Job Vacancies Article in this Agreement. The Hospital shall likewise give an employee notice of equal length in the event the 10 or 12 hour shift ...
Ten or Twelve Hour Shifts. If the Hospital decides to implement 10- or 12-hour shifts, no Employee working an 8-hour shift will be required to change to 10- or 12-hour shifts nor will Employees working 8-hour shifts have their shifts eliminated or reduced in order to implement 10- or 12-hour shifts. Ten or twelve-hour shift Employees will receive a maximum of 24 hours of bereavement leave pay.
Section 1. Layoff
