Common use of Maximizing Hours Clause in Contracts

Maximizing Hours. (a) The employer will do everything reasonable possible to assign shifts and maximize hours in order of seniority. (b) Subject to sub-section (c) below, employees will not be laid off or continue on layoff while employees with less seniority are working. (c) In exceptional circumstances, where a project ends while a different project at another job site continues, an employee may be laid off out-of-line of seniority if one of the following circumstances prevails: (i) The Customer requires an induction or some other form of training pertinent to that job site and the customer would object to a displacement because the more senior employee would require such training or induction. (ii) The less senior employee is a “name request” under article 17.06(b) or the senior employee concerned is an “excluded” employee under 17.06(c) and the intent of these sections are maintained. In any event, following four (4) days of layoff, such employee will be recalled to a job at not less than his normal rate of pay and will be scheduled no less than the maximum number of hours worked by that employee(s) that he would otherwise have been eligible to displace. Upon request, the Employer shall provide proof to the Union to substantiate the legitimacy of the circumstances in sub-section (i) or (ii) above, denying the right of the more senior employee to bump.

Maximizing Hours. (a) The employer will do everything reasonable reasonably possible to assign shifts and maximize hours in order of seniority. (b) Subject to sub-section (c) below, employees will not be laid off or continue on layoff while employees with less seniority are working. (c) In exceptional circumstances, where a project ends while a different project at another job site continues, an employee may be laid off out-of-line of seniority if one of the following circumstances prevails: (i) The Customer customer requires an induction or some other form of training pertinent to that job site and the customer would object to a displacement because the more senior employee would require such training or induction.; (ii) The less senior employee is a “name request” under article Article 17.06(b) or the senior employee concerned is an “excluded” employee under Article 17.06(c) and the intent of these sections Sections are maintained. In any event, following four (4) days of layoff, such employee will be recalled to a job at not no less than his normal rate of pay and will be scheduled to no less than the maximum number of hours worked by that employee(s) that he would otherwise have been eligible to displace. Upon request, the Employer shall provide proof to the Union to substantiate the legitimacy of the circumstances in subSub-section (i) or (ii) above, denying the right of the more senior employee to bump.