The normal work schedule shall consist of five
(5) consecutive workdays, Monday through Friday, followed by two (2) days of
rest (Saturday and Sunday), except for those employees designated in advance by
mutual agreement between the Company and the Union who regularly work on
Saturday and/or Sunday, whose normal work schedule shall consist of five (5)
consecutive workdays, followed by two (2) days of rest, which shall be treated
as their Saturday and Sunday, in that order.
The Company will attempt to meet its nonregular
workweek assignments on a voluntary basis among the employees. In the event there are insufficient
volunteers to meet the requirement, the supervisor may designate and require
the necessary number of employees to work the nonregular
workweek. Such designation shall first
affect the junior qualified employees in the classification. When reducing the number of nonregular workweek assignments, senior employees within
each job will be given their preference to return to regular workweek
schedules. The purpose of nonregular workweek assignments is to provide for those
maintenance and service functions that are required on a continuing seven
(7)-day per-week basis. Such assignments
will not be utilized for the purpose of providing maintenance or service in
support of weekend production operations.
It is mutually agreed that Maintenance employees and employees in
organizations providing seven-day customer service may be assigned to a nonregular workweek.
In the event the Company deems it advisable to
work any number of the employees on a short workweek, the Union and the
affected employees will be notified in advance which days are to be worked, and
such days worked shall be consecutive.
An employee's options in regard to the use of vacation credit in such
situation are set forth in Section 8.4(i).
Each employee shall be assigned to a definite
shift with designated times of beginning and ending. The first and second shifts each shall be an
eight (8)-hour-and-thirty-minute period which shall include a thirty
(30)-minute unpaid lunch period. The
third shift shall be a seven (7)-hour period which shall include a thirty
(30)-minute unpaid lunch period. The
designated times of beginning each shift during the scheduled workweek (the
period covered by Section 6.10(c)) shall be:
first shift - between 5:00 A.M. and 8:30 A.M.; second shift - between
1:30 P.M. and 6:00 P.M.; third shift - between 10:00 P.M. and 1:30 A.M. of the
following day. Each employee shall be
given a ten (10)-minute rest period in each half of the shift to which he/she
is assigned, the time of starting each such rest period to be designated by the
Company. Each employee who is required
to report for work two (2) or more hours prior to the start of his/her regular
shift shall receive a ten (10)-minute rest period prior to the start of his/her
regular shift. Each employee who is
scheduled to work two (2) or more hours of overtime after his/her regular shift
shall receive a ten (10)-minute rest period prior to the start of the
overtime. Changes of shift assignments
shall be made on the first day of a new workweek whenever practicable.
In order to ensure operational efficiency, the
Company shall have the exclusive right to assign employees to any shift. Subject to the foregoing, senior employees
who have a shift preference on file shall be given preference over junior
employees who are assigned to the same job title and shift, junior returning
non-bargaining unit employees, new hires, recalls from layoff, and promotional
candidates for placement in openings in their job title and organization. Shift preference rights are not applicable
over employees being downgraded, laterally reclassified on their current shift,
laterally transferred to the organization on their current shift or over senior
employees who are in their labor grade. Employees who have requested downgrades
will not be given preference over senior employees in their organization who
have shift preferences on file. Shift
preferences must be filed more than three (3) working days prior to an
organization effecting a shift change or declaring a job opening by submission
of a dated open requisition. If an
employee does not file a shift preference, it shall be assumed that he/she is
on his/her preferred shift. Under no
circumstances will the provisions of this Section 5.4 be construed to enable an
employee, at his/her instance and request, to displace a less senior employee
from his/her job and shift.
5.4(a) As stated, shift preferences as defined will not apply in
instances where the exercise of such rights would affect the efficiency of
Company operations in any organization on any shift. When such instances arise, it shall be the
responsibility of organizational management to prepare an exception request for
transmittal to the organization’s designated executive or delegate. Exception requests shall be discussed with
the
5.4(a)(1) When staffing a new shift, the
Company maintains the right to assign employees necessary to accomplish the
work, including the right to assign employees with key skills regardless of
their shift preference. The Company will
attempt to complete such staffing from volunteers, assignments from other
shifts in reverse seniority order, promotions, and new hires.
5.4(a)(2) When senior employees are displaced from their shift of
preference during a staffing exercise, the displaced employee shall be given,
in writing, a date of return to the preferred shift he/she was on.
5.4(b) The Company will de-staff a shift in the following
order: first, by shift preference
filings, and second, in reverse seniority order among remaining employees. In
cases where the shift is to be eliminated, employees will be notified in
advance and given the opportunity to file a timely shift preference.
5.4(c) In
the event an employee is holding a higher graded job classification but is no
longer assigned to work as a lead (as defined by the Rules Governing the
Application of Job Descriptions), he/she shall have the same shift preference
rights accorded to the employees in the lower graded job classification of the
work being performed.