Common use of Scheduling Tours Clause in Contracts

Scheduling Tours. A. Tours may fall on any day of the week necessary to meet service requirements, except that tours and part-tours which make up the normal workweek may not be spread over more than six (6) days of the calendar week except for part-time employees who work less than thirty (30) hours per week. R Network Operations employees regularly assigned to evening and night tours shall have their tours scheduled in accordance with Article 15. 1. Scheduled time is composed of tours and/or part-tours and the scheduled time for any workday shall not normally exceed the length of the normal tour. 2. There shall be no more than four (4) hours between sessions of a split tour. The session shall not be less than three (3) hours or more than five (5) hours in length. B. Employees shall be scheduled to work no more than twelve (12) consecutive days or sixteen (16) consecutive hours, except where acute service conditions develop, and in such cases, they shall be paid two (2) times their basic rate of pay for days worked in excess of twelve (12) or for hours worked in excess of sixteen (16) consecutive hours. C. Insofar as service requirements will permit, except for rotation of Sunday and holiday hours and choice of tours, a minimum time interval of twelve (12) hours shall elapse between a scheduled ending time of one tour and the scheduled starting time of the next. A minimum of six (6) hours must elapse between the scheduled ending of a tour and the scheduled starting time of the next tour when rotating Sunday and holiday tours, or when exercising choice of tours. D. Employees shall be either scheduled to work or scheduled off on authorized holidays. 1. Insofar as service requirements permit, employees shall be excused on authorized holidays. a. Insofar as practicable employees working on a holiday will be rotated from holiday to holiday among those qualified within a work group. Christmas and Mother's Day (even though Mother's Day is not an authorized holiday) will be rotated from Christmas to Christmas and Mother's Day to Mother's Day, except that rotations shall not apply to employees who have vacation scheduled during Christmas week. E. Changes from officially posted weekly work schedule may be made in accordance with the following: 1. At the discretion of the supervisor in charge to meet service requirements. 2. At the request of employees and subject to the provisions of paragraph E.1 of this section and sub-paragraphs a. and b. below. a. Such requested changes shall be made when no replacement of the employee's schedule is required and when the services of the employee making the request may be profitably used during the hours to which he/she wishes to change. b. When a replacement of the employee's schedule is required, the change shall be made provided an agreeable change can be made in the schedule of another employee and provided such change does not involve overtime pay. The minimum period for which an employee may change hours with another employee is one session. An employee will not normally be allowed to make more than one scheduled change for a particular day. c. Employees shall not be restricted to the number of hours between sessions of a tour when they wish to trade any part or all of their tour, provided that no less than six (6) hours elapse between the ending of one tour and the beginning of the next as a result of such trade. F. Any connecting time worked that precedes or follows a scheduled tour shall be paid separately on a minute-by-minute basis.

Scheduling Tours. A. Tours may fall on any day of the week necessary to meet service requirements, except that tours and part-tours which make up the normal workweek may not be spread over more than six (6) days of the calendar week except for part-time employees who work less than thirty forty (3040) hours per week. R All Operator Services operating room employees and Network Operations employees regularly assigned to evening and night tours shall have their tours scheduled in accordance with Article 15. 1. Scheduled time is composed of tours and/or part-tours and the scheduled time for any workday shall not normally exceed the length of the normal tour. 2. There shall be no more than four (4) hours between sessions of a split tour. The session shall not be less than three (3) hours or more than five (5) hours in length. B. Employees shall be scheduled to work no more than twelve (12) consecutive days or sixteen (16) consecutive hours, except where acute service conditions develop, and in such cases, they shall be paid two (2) times their basic rate of pay for days worked in excess of twelve (12) or for hours worked in excess of sixteen (16) consecutive hours. C. Insofar as service requirements will permit, except for rotation of Sunday and holiday hours and choice of tours, a minimum time interval of twelve (12) hours [eleven (11) hours in Operator Services] shall elapse between a scheduled ending time of one tour and the scheduled starting time of the next. A minimum of six (6) hours must elapse between the scheduled ending of a tour and the scheduled starting time of the next tour when rotating Sunday and holiday tours, or when exercising choice of tours. D. Employees shall be either scheduled to work or scheduled off on authorized holidays. 1. Insofar as service requirements permit, employees shall be excused on authorized holidays. a. Insofar as practicable employees working on a holiday will be rotated from holiday to holiday among those qualified within a work group. Insofar as practicable employees working on Christmas Eve (Operator Services only), Christmas and Mother's Day (even though Mother's Day is not an authorized holiday) will be rotated from Christmas Eve to Christmas Eve, Christmas to Christmas and Mother's Day to Mother's Day, except that rotations shall not apply to employees who have vacation scheduled during Christmas week. b. When December 25 falls on Sunday, holiday schedules for operating forces in Operator Services will be rotated on Sunday rather than the observed holiday. E. Changes from officially posted weekly work schedule may be made in accordance with the following: 1. At the discretion of the supervisor in charge to meet service requirements. 2. At the request of employees and subject to the provisions of paragraph E.1 E.1. of this section and sub-paragraphs a. and b. below. a. Such requested changes shall be made when no replacement of the employee's schedule is required and when the services of the employee making the request may be profitably used during the hours to which he/she wishes to change. b. When a replacement of the employee's schedule is required, the change shall be made provided an agreeable change can be made in the schedule of another employee and provided such change does not involve overtime pay. The minimum period for which an employee may change hours with another employee is one session. An employee will not normally be allowed to make more than one scheduled change for a particular day. c. Employees shall not be restricted to the number of hours between sessions of a tour when they wish to trade any part or all of their tour, provided that no less than six (6) hours elapse between the ending of one tour and the beginning of the next as a result of such trade. F. Any connecting time worked that precedes or follows a scheduled tour shall be paid separately on a minuteone-by-minute quarter (1/4) hour basis.

Scheduling Tours. A. Tours may fall on any day of the week necessary to meet service requirements, except that tours and part-tours which make up the normal workweek may not be spread over more than six (6) days of the calendar week except for part-time employees who work less than thirty (30) hours per week. R Network Operations employees regularly assigned to evening and night tours shall have their tours scheduled in accordance with Article 15. 1. Scheduled time is composed of tours and/or part-tours and the scheduled time for any workday shall not normally exceed the length of the normal tour. 2. There shall be no more than four (4) hours between sessions of a split tour. The session shall not be less than three (3) hours or more than five (5) hours in length. B. Employees shall be scheduled to work no more than twelve (12) consecutive days or sixteen (16) consecutive hours, except where acute service conditions develop, and in such cases, they shall be paid two (2) times their basic rate of pay for days worked in excess of twelve (12) or for hours worked in excess of sixteen (16) consecutive hours. C. Insofar as service requirements will permit, except for rotation of Sunday and holiday hours and choice of tours, a minimum time interval of twelve (12) hours shall elapse between a scheduled ending time of one tour and the scheduled starting time of the next. A minimum of six (6) hours must elapse between the scheduled ending of a tour and the scheduled starting time of the next tour when rotating Sunday and holiday tours, or when exercising choice of tours. D. Employees shall be either scheduled to work or scheduled off on authorized holidays. 1. Insofar as service requirements permit, employees shall be excused on authorized holidays. a. Insofar as practicable employees working on a holiday will be rotated from holiday to holiday among those qualified within a work group. Christmas and Mother's Day (even though Mother's Day is not an authorized holiday) will be rotated from Christmas to Christmas and Mother's Day to Mother's Day, except that rotations shall not apply to employees who have vacation scheduled during Christmas week. E. Changes from officially posted weekly work schedule may be made in accordance with the following: 1. At the discretion of the supervisor in charge to meet service requirements. 2. At the request of employees and subject to the provisions of paragraph E.1 of this section and sub-paragraphs a. and b. below. a. Such requested changes shall be made when no replacement of the employee's schedule is required and when the services of the employee making the request may be profitably used during the hours to which he/she wishes to change. b. When a replacement of the employee's schedule is required, the change shall be made provided an agreeable change can be made in the schedule of another employee and provided such change does not involve overtime pay. The minimum period for which an employee may change hours with another employee is one session. An employee will not normally be allowed to make more than one scheduled change for a particular day. c. Employees shall not be restricted to the number of hours between sessions of a tour when they wish to trade any part or all of their tour, provided that no less than six (6) hours elapse between the ending of one tour and the beginning of the next as a result of such trade. F. Any connecting time worked that precedes or follows a scheduled tour shall be paid separately on a minute-by-minute basis.