Common use of Work on Unassigned Days Clause in Contracts

Work on Unassigned Days. Where work is required by the Carrier to be performed on a day which is not a part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned employee who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work that week; in all other cases by the regular employee. (a) The Carrier may establish by bulletin production crews (including locally based supporting forces) with a work week consisting of five (5) eight (8) hour days followed by two (2) consecutive rest days. One of those rest days will be either a Saturday or a Sunday, and both weekend days will be designated as rest days where there is no need for weekend work. (b) The Carrier may establish by bulletin gangs with a work week consisting of four (4) ten (10) hour days, followed by three (3) consecutive rest days, in lieu of five (5) eight (8) hour days. The rest days of such compressed workweek will include either Saturday or Sunday. However, where there is no need for weekend work, production crews will be given both weekend days as rest days. Note: Work week schedules under this Rule are subject to Rule 28 (d) and (e). (1) Rules in effect covering payment for service performed on rest days will apply. (2) Rules in effect covering payment for the performance of all overtime work other than on rest days is amended to the extent that employees assigned to work as provided in paragraph (a) of this Rule will be compensated at the overtime rate for work performed in excess of ten (10) hours on an assigned work day, except as provided in paragraphs (d), (e), and (f) of this Rule. (i) If the work week is Monday through Thursday and one of the recognized holidays provided for in Rule 31 (Holiday Pay) of this Agreement occurs on Monday or Thursday, employees assigned to work such work week will work ten (10) hours and forty (40) minutes on the three remaining work days of that work week at the straight- time rate of pay. (ii) Employees who qualify for holiday allowance under existing rules will be paid eight (8) hours at the straight time rate for such holiday. (iii) If one of the recognized holidays provided for in Rule 31 of this Agreement occurs on Tuesday or Wednesday, employees assigned to such work week will observe Thursday as the holiday and will work ten