COMPENSATION (from current Contract)

OVERTIME

• Overtime Policy in General                                                A-page 46-47

(B) Definition of Overtime:  Overtime is defined as time worked prior to or after an employee’s regularly scheduled working hours or time worked during nonscheduled work days. 

(C) Overtime Calculation:  Overtime will be paid for all time worked in excess of scheduled hours, computed to the nearest quarter hour.

• Overtime Meal Allowance                                                  E-page 48

(E)   Overtime Meal Allowance:  An employee will be provided a meal allowance of $13.50 any time his or her working time is ten hours and 30 minutes or more.

• Short Notice Call Out                                                         F-page 48-51

(F)   Short Notice Call Out:  A short-notice call-out occurs if, with less than 12 hours notice, the employee is called out to work.

• Extensive Overtime Work                                                   G-page 51-53

(G)  Extensive Overtime Work: . . . . .Double the straight-time rate is paid for time worked in excess of 12 continuous hours or 12 cumulative hours occurring at different intervals since the employee’s last period of eight or more hours off the job….

• Nine Hour Rest Rule                                                            page 52 (last paragraph)

….A rest period of nine or more continuous hours off the job is required between any period of time worked, as defined to avoid accumulation towards 12 cumulative or continuous hours or to stop double-time pay after employee is already in a double-time situation. …

• Seven Day Rule                                                                    G II page 54

II.                Consecutive-Day Rule – When an employee works for seven consecutive days, all time worked on the seventh day and all succeeding scheduled days off without a full day off, will be paid at double-time rates.  This section covers full days and call-outs for partial days.

• Lunch Periods 5 ½ hour rule                                                  H page 54

(H)   Emergency Postponement of Lunch Periods:  Operating emergencies may

force unusually long postponement of the lunch period.  In such circumstances, if the period is not started within the first 5 ½ hours of the scheduled shift, the employees will be considered to have worked one-half hour outside their regular schedule and will eat their lunch as work permits.

PREMIUMS

• General Statement                                                               A-page 55

(A)   General Statement:  Employees who are scheduled and who work on the swing shift . . . . .Employees who are scheduled and who work on the graveyard shift. . . .A scheduled shift is one that is part of the 40-hour workweek (including holidays that fall within an employee’s 40-hour workweek.

• Split Days Off                                                                       C-page 56

(C)  Split Days Off:  Any full-time employee whose regular straight-time schedule for the workweek provides a day off that is not directly preceded or followed by another day off (whether or not within the same workweek) shall receive premium pay.. . .

• Sunday Work                                                                       D-page 56

(D)  Sunday Work:  Employees who are scheduled and who work on Sunday shall receive premium pay. . . .

• On Call Pay                                                                          E-page 56

(E) On Call Pay:  Employees who serve on call assignments must stay within 30 minutes’ driving time of the employee’s base location during the period of the on-call assignment.. . . . .

        Employees who serve on a week-long on-call assignment during off-duty hours as a job requirement shall    receive a premium. . . . .

Employees who serve on weekend and holiday on-call assignments shall receive a premium. . . .

• Bilingual Pay                                                                       F-page 59

(F)   Bilingual Pay:  Employees who are qualified in a second language and are assigned bilingual contact responsibilities with customers, and the position is identified in the System Wide Bid book as “bilingual”, shall receive a premium. . .