Common use of Weekend Rotation Clause in Contracts

Weekend Rotation. The normal weekend work requirements for all full and part time Nurses is every third weekend or the equivalent (four (4) shifts per six (6) week period). A weekend, for purposes of defining a weekend off and/or a weekend worked as determined by the Clinical Director, is defined as two (2) days: Saturday and Sunday for day and evening staff, Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday for night staff, which may be different for Regular (FT, PT LT) and pool (UBP and Retiree) staff. As of June 1, 2014, all Full-time, Part-time, and Limited time nurses with between twenty-five (25) and twenty-nine (29) years of service will work one weekend per month and those nurses with thirty (30) or greater years of service will not be required to work weekends. 1) Volunteers shall be sought. 2) Pool staff. 3) For weekend requirements caused due to open budgeted deliberately unapproved vacant positions, the Medical Center shall seek agency staff, prior to rotating regular staff in reverse order of bargaining unit seniority. 4) In the event that required staffing levels cannot be accomplished using the above, the Medical Center shall assign regular employees on a rotating basis in reverse order of bargaining unit seniority to work such additional shifts required to meet the immediate, emergent or urgent patient care needs. Employees who are scheduled to work a specific weekend and who are absent because of a call out are subject, based on staffing and patient care needs, to being required to make up the missed weekend shift. Such make up shift, if required by staffing and patient care needs, shall be by mutual consent but if such consent is not obtained may be assigned by the Medical Center anytime during the next two schedules. During the term of this Agreement, the Staffing Committee shall meet periodically to review and discuss the feasibility of the establishment of weekend alternative programs. The Medical Center retains sole ultimate discretion regarding the establishment, implementation and continuation of any weekend or extra time incentive program which it may choose to make available to employees.

Weekend Rotation. The normal weekend work requirements for all full and part time Nurses employees is every third weekend or the equivalent (four (4) shifts per six (6) week period). A weekend, for purposes of defining a weekend off and/or a weekend worked as determined by the Clinical Director, is defined as two (2) days: Saturday and Sunday for day and evening staff, Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday for night staff, which may be different for Regular (FT, PT LT) and pool (UBP and Retiree) staff. As of June 1, 2014, all Fullfull-time, Partpart-time, and Limited limited part-time nurses with between twenty-five (25) and twenty-nine (29) years of service will work one weekend per month and those nurses with thirty (30) or greater years of service will not be required to work weekends.. Bargaining unit employees may volunteer to work more than every third weekend and shall be compensated at their regular straight time hourly base rate unless such time entitles the employee to overtime or any other existing incentive. In units where the normal weekend rotation is every third weekend, the employer may assign to such staff extra weekend time in order to meet unforeseen (for example, LOA’s, resignations) and immediate, urgent or emergent patient care needs, such to be done only after: 1) Volunteers shall be sought. 2) Pool staff. 3) For weekend requirements caused due to open budgeted deliberately unapproved vacant positions, the Medical Center shall seek agency staff, prior to rotating regular staff in reverse order of bargaining unit seniority. 4) In the event that required staffing levels cannot be accomplished using the above, the Medical Center shall assign regular employees on a rotating basis in reverse order of bargaining unit seniority to work such additional shifts required to meet the immediate, emergent or urgent patient care needs. Employees who are scheduled to work a specific weekend and who are absent because of a call out are subject, based on staffing and patient care needs, to being required to make up the missed weekend shift. Such make up shift, if required by staffing and patient care needs, shall be by mutual consent but if such consent is not obtained may be assigned by the Medical Center anytime during the next two schedules. During the term of this Agreement, the Staffing Committee shall meet periodically to review and discuss the feasibility of the establishment of weekend alternative programs. The Medical Center retains sole ultimate discretion regarding the establishment, implementation and continuation of any weekend or extra time incentive program which it may choose to make available to employees.

Weekend Rotation. The normal weekend work requirements for all full and part time Nurses is every third weekend or the equivalent (four (4) shifts per six (6) week period). A weekend, for purposes of defining a weekend off and/or a weekend worked as determined by the Clinical Director, is defined as two (2) days: Saturday and Sunday for day and evening staff, Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday for night staff, which may be different for Regular (FT, PT LT) and pool (UBP and Retiree) staff. As of June 1, 2014, all Full-time, Part-time, and Limited time nurses with between twenty-twenty- five (25) and twenty-nine (29) years of service will work one weekend per month and those nurses with thirty (30) or greater years of service will not be required to work weekends. 1) Volunteers shall be sought. 2) Pool staff. 3) For weekend requirements caused due to open budgeted deliberately unapproved vacant positions, the Medical Center shall seek agency staff, prior to rotating regular staff in reverse order of bargaining unit seniority. 4) In the event that required staffing levels cannot be accomplished using the above, the Medical Center shall assign regular employees on a rotating basis in reverse order of bargaining unit seniority to work such additional shifts required to meet the immediate, emergent or urgent patient care needs. Employees who are scheduled to work a specific weekend and who are absent because of a call out are subject, based on staffing and patient care needs, to being required to make up the missed weekend shift. Such make up shift, if required by staffing and patient care needs, shall be by mutual consent but if such consent is not obtained may be assigned by the Medical Center anytime during the next two schedules. During the term of this Agreement, the Staffing Committee shall meet periodically to review and discuss the feasibility of the establishment of weekend alternative programs. The Medical Center retains sole ultimate discretion regarding the establishment, implementation and continuation of any weekend or extra time incentive program which it may choose to make available to employees.