HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME PAY. A. Regular full-time and part-time Amedisys staff nurses will be scheduled to their FTE status prior to any contract nurse being offered hours. If the full-time or part- time nurse declines a visit, Employer reserves its right to offer the visit to any contract nurse. For any period of low census, any nurse may volunteer for a reduced visit load, PTO, or time off without pay if available. TTA: 6-29-24 ONA/Amedisys, Inc. Collective Bargaining Agreement 04-01-21 through 03-31-23 09-XX-24 until 03-31-27 1. The basic work week shall be forty (40) hours, starting and stopping to match the Employer's payroll cycle. Any change in the work week shall require thirty (30) days' written notice to the Association in advance of the change. The schedule for any Baylor Nurse positions will be as defined in Article 3 of this Agreement. The basic workday shall be eight (8) hours and could begin earlier or later than 8:00 a.m., plus a minimum thirty- (30-) minute meal period on the nurse's own time. The basic workday may be changed by the Employer, based on need, to eight (8) hours or less or ten (10) hours or less depending upon the shift hired for, and minus meals on the nurse's own unpaid time, as scheduled. In the event of such a basic workday schedule change, and the nurse has an objection to said change, nurse should initiate consultation with Clinical Manager or Director of Operations for guidance and discussion – including whether other nurses are available to assist to complete the rescheduled visit(s), whether the schedule change is necessary or whether nurses identifies other concerns. The Employer may provide employees with the opportunity to work a schedule consisting of ten- (10-) hour days. Seniority shall be the determining factor in awarding such hours. Hours of work shall be consecutive, except for the intervention of the meal period. Nurses are allowed up to fifteen (15) minutes of paid break for each four (4) hours worked with scheduling to be at the discretion of the individual nurse, subject to Oregon law. No nurse shall be required to work a scheduled shift of other than eight (8) or ten (10) hours in duration, unless specifically hired for such different length shift. Nurses shall be granted rest periods in accordance with Oregon Law and this Agreement. TTA: 6-29-24 2. Employer shall have a schedule posted by the 22nd of each month or, if the 22nd falls on a weekend or holiday, on the next regular business day. Adjustments to the schedule can only be made with the mutual agreement of the affected nurse or in extraordinary circumstances necessary to provide care. 3. In order to meet service needs at different times, the Employer may make longer- term changes to the start and stop times of existing length shifts and reassign nurses with prior mutual agreement from the affected nurse(s). 4. If available unfilled shift assignments are known, the Employer will identify and post them, whenever possible, in an effort to elicit volunteers prior to requiring a nurse to work an unfilled shift assignment. B. Overtime Pay Shall Be Compensated As Follows: 1. Pay – Overtime compensation will be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the nurse's regular straight-time hourly base rate of pay for all hours worked in ONA/Amedisys, Inc. Collective Bargaining Agreement 04-01-21 through 03-31-23 09-XX-24 until 03-31-27 excess of forty (40) hours within the work week TTA: 6-29-24 2. Employees shall not be required to work more than six (6) days in a row. Bargaining unit nurses shall not be required to work or be placed on call more than the equivalent of once every fourth weekend. (A nurse who was scheduled to work but work was not available shall be credited with having worked the weekend.) Nurses shall also not be required to be placed on-call for more than four (4) weeknights per month. These restrictions shall not apply to a nurse who has accepted a position for which the employer has posted a more frequent weekend and/or on-call work requirement, nor in extraordinary, or emergency, or other exigent circumstances (i.e., high risk patient needs, and/or unexpected events, or nurse turnover) circumstances when additional staff is needed to meet patient needs. 3. The Employer will attempt to solicit volunteers and attempt to utilize PRN nurses and temporary nurses to cover any on-call shifts remaining after nurses are assignedprior to requiring a nurse to be placed on-call and/or to work night shifts in excess four (4) weeknights of on-call per month. If the Employer is unsuccessful, the Employer may assigned the work outside the bargaining unit, duty will be assigned in reverse seniority order, starting with the lowest seniority nurse, and then rotating up the seniority list as any subsequent need arises. This list is maintained in a consistent location accessible to all members of the bargaining unit. Nothing in this Section 2 shall prevent any nurse from volunteering for more than six (6) workdays in a row or four (4) weeknight on-call shifts per month. 4. Weekend work and weekend call will be assigned to a nurse during the same weekend whenever possible if the nurse so desires. TTA: 6-29-24
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME PAY.
8 A. Regular full-time and part-time Amedisys staff nurses will be scheduled to their 9 FTE status prior to any contract nurse being offered hours. If the full-time or part- 10 time nurse declines a visit, Employer reserves its right to offer the visit to any 11 contract nurse. For any period of low census, any nurse may volunteer for a 12 reduced visit load, PTO, or time off without pay if available. TTA: 6-29-24 ONA/Amedisys, Inc. Collective Bargaining Agreement 04-01-21 through 03-31-23 09-XX-24 until 03-31-27.
13 1. The basic work week shall be forty (40) hours, starting and stopping to match 14 the Employer's payroll cycle. Any change in the work week shall require thirty 15 (30) days' written notice to the Association in advance of the change. The 16 schedule for any Baylor Nurse positions will be as defined in Article 3 of this 17 Agreement. The basic workday shall be eight (8) hours and could begin 18 earlier or later than 8:00 a.m., plus a minimum thirty- (30-) minute meal 19 period on the nurse's own time. The basic workday may be changed by the 20 Employer, based on need, to eight (8) hours or less or ten (10) hours or less 21 depending upon the shift hired for, and minus meals on the nurse's own 22 unpaid time, as scheduled. In the event of such a basic workday schedule 23 change, and the nurse has an objection to said change, nurse should initiate 24 consultation with Clinical Manager or Director of Operations for guidance and 25 discussion – including whether other nurses are available to assist to 26 complete the rescheduled visit(s), whether the schedule change is necessary 27 or whether nurses identifies other concerns. The Employer may provide 28 employees with the opportunity to work a schedule consisting of ten- (10-) 29 hour days. Seniority shall be the determining factor in awarding such hours. 30 Hours of work shall be consecutive, except for the intervention of the meal period. Nurses are allowed up to fifteen (15) minutes of paid break for each four (4) hours worked with scheduling to be at the discretion of the individual nurse, subject to Oregon law. No nurse shall be required to work a scheduled shift of other than eight (8) or ten (10) hours in duration, unless specifically hired for such different length shift. Nurses shall be granted rest periods in accordance with Oregon Law and this Agreement. TTA: 6-29-24
2. Employer shall have a schedule posted by the 22nd of each month or, if the 22nd falls on a weekend or holiday, on the next regular business day. Adjustments to the schedule can only be made with the mutual agreement of the affected nurse or in extraordinary circumstances necessary to provide care.
3. In order to meet service needs at different times, the Employer may make longer- term changes to the start and stop times of existing length shifts and reassign nurses with prior mutual agreement from the affected nurse(s).
4. If available unfilled shift assignments are known, the Employer will identify and post them, whenever possible, in an effort to elicit volunteers prior to requiring a nurse to work an unfilled shift assignment.
B. Overtime Pay Shall Be Compensated As Follows:
1. Pay – Overtime compensation will be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the nurse's regular straight-time hourly base rate of pay for all hours worked in ONA/Amedisys, Inc. Collective Bargaining Agreement 04-01-21 through 03-31-23 09-XX-24 until 03-31-27 excess of forty (40) hours within the work week TTA: 6-29-24
2. Employees shall not be required to work more than six (6) days in a row. Bargaining unit nurses shall not be required to work or be placed on call more than the equivalent of once every fourth weekend. (A nurse who was scheduled to work but work was not available shall be credited with having worked the weekend.) Nurses shall also not be required to be placed on-call for more than four (4) weeknights per month. These restrictions shall not apply to a nurse who has accepted a position for which the employer has posted a more frequent weekend and/or on-call work requirement, nor in extraordinary, or emergency, or other exigent circumstances (i.e., high risk patient needs, and/or unexpected events, or nurse turnover) circumstances when additional staff is needed to meet patient needs.
3. The Employer will attempt to solicit volunteers and attempt to utilize PRN nurses and temporary nurses to cover any on-call shifts remaining after nurses are assignedprior to requiring a nurse to be placed on-call and/or to work night shifts in excess four (4) weeknights of on-call per month. If the Employer is unsuccessful, the Employer may assigned the work outside the bargaining unit, duty will be assigned in reverse seniority order, starting with the lowest seniority nurse, and then rotating up the seniority list as any subsequent need arises. This list is maintained in a consistent location accessible to all members of the bargaining unit. Nothing in this Section 2 shall prevent any nurse from volunteering for more than six (6) workdays in a row or four (4) weeknight on-call shifts per month.
4. Weekend work and weekend call will be assigned to a nurse during the same weekend whenever possible if the nurse so desires. TTA: 6-29-24meal
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME PAY.
A. Regular full-time and part-time Amedisys staff nurses will be scheduled to their FTE status prior to any contract nurse being offered hours. If the full-time or part- time nurse declines a visit, Employer reserves its right to offer the visit to any contract nurse. For any period of low census, any nurse may volunteer for a reduced visit load, PTO, or time off without pay if available. TTA: 6-29-24 ONA/Amedisys, Inc. Collective Bargaining Agreement 04-01-21 through 03-31-23 09-XX-24 until 03-31-27.
1. The basic work week workweek shall be forty (40) hours, starting and stopping to match the Employer's payroll cycle. Any change in the work week workweek shall require thirty (30) days' written notice to the Association in advance of the change. The schedule for any Baylor Nurse positions will be as defined in Article 3 of this Agreement. The basic workday shall be eight (8) hours and could begin earlier or later than 8:00 a.m., plus a minimum thirty- (30-) minute meal period on the nurse's own time. The basic workday may be changed by the Employer, based on need, to eight (8) hours or less or ten (10) hours or less depending upon the shift hired for, and minus meals on the nurse's own unpaid time, as scheduled. In the event of such a basic workday schedule change, and the nurse has an objection to said change, nurse should initiate consultation with Clinical Manager or Director of Operations for guidance and discussion – including whether other nurses are available to assist to complete the rescheduled visit(s), whether the schedule change is necessary or whether nurses identifies other concerns. The Employer may provide employees with the opportunity to work a schedule consisting of ten- (10-) hour days. Seniority shall be the determining factor in awarding such hours. Hours of work shall be consecutive, except for the intervention of the meal period. Nurses are allowed up to fifteen (15) minutes of paid break for each four (4) hours worked with scheduling to be at the discretion of the individual nurse, subject to Oregon law. No nurse shall be required to work a scheduled shift of other than eight (8) or ten (10) hours in duration, unless specifically hired for such different length shift. Nurses shall be granted rest periods in accordance with Oregon Law and this Agreement. TTA: 6-29-24.
2. Employer shall have a schedule posted by the 22nd of each month or, if the 22nd falls on a weekend or holiday, on the next regular business day. Adjustments to the schedule can only be made with the mutual agreement of the affected nurse or in extraordinary circumstances necessary to provide care.
3. In order to meet service needs at different times, the Employer may make longer- term changes to the start and stop times of existing length shifts and reassign nurses with prior mutual agreement from the affected nurse(s).
4. If available unfilled shift assignments are known, the Employer will identify and post them, whenever possible, in an effort to elicit volunteers prior to requiring a nurse to work an unfilled shift assignment.
B. Overtime Pay Shall Be Compensated As Follows:
1. Pay – Overtime compensation will be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the nurse's regular straight-time hourly base rate of pay for all hours worked in ONA/Amedisys, Inc. Collective Bargaining Agreement 04-01-21 through 03-31-23 09-XX-24 until 03-31-27 excess of forty (40) hours within the work week TTA: 6-29-24
2. Employees shall not be required to work more than six (6) days in a row. Bargaining unit nurses shall not be required to work or be placed on call more than the equivalent of once every fourth weekend. (A nurse who was scheduled to work but work was not available shall be credited with having worked the weekend.) Nurses shall also not be required to be placed on-call for more than four (4) weeknights per month. These restrictions shall not apply to a nurse who has accepted a position for which the employer has posted a more frequent weekend and/or on-call work requirement, nor in extraordinary, or emergency, or other exigent circumstances (i.e., high risk patient needs, and/or unexpected events, or nurse turnover) circumstances when additional staff is needed to meet patient needs.
3. The Employer will attempt to solicit volunteers and attempt to utilize PRN nurses and temporary nurses to cover any on-call shifts remaining after nurses are assignedprior to requiring a nurse to be placed on-call and/or to work night shifts in excess four (4) weeknights of on-call per month. If the Employer is unsuccessful, the Employer may assigned the work outside the bargaining unit, duty will be assigned in reverse seniority order, starting with the lowest seniority nurse, and then rotating up the seniority list as any subsequent need arises. This list is maintained in a consistent location accessible to all members of the bargaining unit. Nothing in this Section 2 shall prevent any nurse from volunteering for more than six (6) workdays in a row or four (4) weeknight on-call shifts per month.
4. Weekend work and weekend call will be assigned to a nurse during the same weekend whenever possible if the nurse so desires. TTA: 6-29-24
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement