TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
LETTER OF
UNDERSTANDING NO. 21
SUBJECT: NON-TRADITIONAL WORK SCHEDULES
The parties recognize that the efficient use
of facilities and machinery is an integral part of the Company's
competitiveness and that the Company's competitive position is essential to the
employment security of its employees.
The parties further recognize that a normal work schedule of eight
(8)-hours-a-day five (5)-days-a-week is not always conducive to the efficient
use of facilities and machinery.
Accordingly, the parties agree they will consider implementing
non-traditional work schedules where they deem it appropriate.
While the parties recognize that the details
of non-traditional work schedules will have to be discussed on a case-by-case
basis, and that no such schedules will be implemented except upon mutual
agreement by the parties, the following guidelines will apply:
1. The
workweek and shift times set forth in Article 5 of the parties' Collective
Bargaining Agreement will be adjusted to accommodate the non-traditional work
schedule.
2. The
phrase "assigned shift" will be substituted for "eight (8)
hours" wherever it appears in the parties' Collective Bargaining
Agreement.
3. Employees
who work on their third consecutive day of rest will be paid overtime on the
same basis as their first day of rest.
4. For
those calendar weeks encompassing any of the holidays observed by the Company,
employees assigned to non-traditional work schedules will be converted for that
week to a normal work schedule.
Dated
By:_____________________________ By:_________________________
Date: ___________________________ Date:_______________________