Short Notice Shift Incentive Clause Samples
The Short Notice Shift Incentive clause establishes additional compensation or benefits for employees who accept work shifts on short notice. Typically, this clause applies when an employer needs to fill a shift due to unexpected absences or increased demand, and offers a financial bonus or other incentive to employees who agree to cover these shifts with minimal advance warning. Its core practical function is to encourage staff flexibility and ensure adequate staffing levels during unforeseen circumstances by making last-minute shifts more attractive to employees.
Short Notice Shift Incentive. 1. The Hospital, at its discretion, may designate unfilled shifts as eligible for a Short Notice Shift Incentive, which will generally is to be used only for those shifts that are called off for and/or remain open due to illness, injury, bereavement leave, increased patient census within the last 48 hours, sustained patient surge, potential department divert, boarding multiple critical patients, or jury duty (for any days the nurse did not have advance notice) 48 hours or less before the shift starts or because of increased patient census within the last 48 hours. The Hospital, at its discretion, may expand the above criteria and designate unfilled shifts as eligible for a Short Notice Shift Incentive in other circumstances as need to support staffing levels.
2. Short Notice Shift Incentives are is available to all bargaining unit nurses. However, only for the Per Diem Nurses who have worked 2412 hours in the same pay period.
3. Short Notice Shift Incentives are is available only for extra work and not for regularly scheduled work or traded days.
4. Short Notice Shift Incentives are is available for all nursing units.
5. If a nurse reduces their employment status (full time to part time/ part time to per diem), this Short Notice Shift Incentive is not available to such nurse (regardless of hours he or she works) for a period of 6 months from the date the nurse reduces his or her budgeted hours.
6. If a nurse does not work his or her regularly scheduled shifts for reasons other than prescheduled PLH/EIH, PLH/EIH protected under Oregon sick leave when used for allowable sick time purposes, leave otherwise protected by law, or low census, the nurse will be ineligible for the Short Notice Shift Incentive for the same number of shifts that the nurse missed during a pay period.
7. This Short Notice Shift Incentives does not apply to overtime hours associated with a normally scheduled shift to complete shift duties (e.g., charting). Further, this Short Notice Shift Incentives is are available only for shifts of four (4) hours or more, except for nurses who are working a short notice shift immediately following or preceding a 12-hour shift, in which case it is available for shifts of three (3) hours or more.
8. The Hospital, at its discretion, may designate unfilled shifts as eligible for either of two different Short Notice Shift incentives (but not both) using codes or descriptions to be determined by the Hospital. The codes will be universal, understandable and...
Short Notice Shift Incentive. 16 1. The Short Notice Shift Incentive is to be used only for those shifts that are 17 called off for illness, injury, bereavement leave, sustained patient surge, 18 potential department divert, boarding multiple critical patients, or jury duty 19 (for any days the nurse did not have advance notice) 48 hours or less 20 before the shift starts or because of increased patient census within the 21 last 48 hours.
23 2. Short Notice Shift Incentive is available to all bargaining unit nurses.
Short Notice Shift Incentive. 1. The Hospital, at its discretion, may designate unfilled shifts as eligible for a Short Notice Shift Incentive, which will generally be used only for those shifts that are called off and/or remain open due to illness, injury, bereavement leave, increased patient census within the last 48 hours, sustained patient surge, potential department divert, boarding multiple critical patients, or jury duty (for any days the nurse did not have advance notice) 48 hours or less before the shift starts. The Hospital, at its discretion, may expand the above criteria and designate unfilled shifts as eligible for a Short Notice Shift Incentive in other circumstances as need to support staffing levels.
Short Notice Shift Incentive. 32 1. The Short Notice Shift Incentive is to be used only for those shifts that 33 are called off for illness, injury, bereavement leave or jury duty (for any days the 34 nurse did not have advance notice) forty-eight (48) hours or less before the shift 1 starts or because of increased patient census within the last forty-eight (48) hours.
3 2. Short Notice Shift Incentive is available to full-time, part-time and 4 casual nurses.
6 3. Short Notice Shift Incentive is available only for extra work and not for 7 regularly-scheduled work or traded days.
9 4. If a nurse does not work his or her regularly scheduled shifts for 10 reasons other than prescheduled PTO/EIB or low census, the nurse will be 11 ineligible for the Short Notice Shift Incentive for the same number of shifts that the 12 nurse missed during a pay period.
14 5. This Short Notice Shift Incentive does not apply to overtime hours 15 associated with a normally scheduled shift to complete shift duties (e.g., charting).