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Section 4.3 Work Schedules.
Scheduling periods for each calendar year will be reviewed at the Labor/Management meeting held the previous September. Schedules will be done in six-week time blocks. A copy of the posting dates shall be made available on each unit.
A. The final schedule will be posted two weeks before the schedule period begins. Nurses may request up to four (4) days to be scheduled off in a six-week schedule. Every reasonable effort will be made to grant such requests. In the event all such requests cannot be granted such requests will be given by seniority on a rotating basis for regularly scheduled nurses.
The process shall advance as follows:
Seven weeks before the schedule period begins:
All full and regular part-time benefited nurses will have one week to sign up for their requested schedule. They will sign up for their control hours including any required weekends and holidays.[1] Regular day and evening nurses must sign up for a combination of six (6) Mondays and/or Fridays in a 6-week schedule. Night Nurses must sign up for a combination of six (6) Sundays and/or Thursdays. No nurse will be required to work more than six (6) of such shifts.
Six weeks before the schedule period begins;
If more nurses have signed up for a shift than are routinely need for staffing, nurses will be moved off the shift in inverse seniority on a rotating basis.
Five weeks before the schedule period begins:
Per Diem Nurses will have one week to sign up for their requested schedule, and they will sign up for all of their commitment hours.
Four weeks in advance of the schedule time period:
All nurses may sign up for straight time extras or overtime extras posted on the needs or open shifts list. If more than one nurse signs up for a shift the shift will be confirmed in the following order:
1. Full-Time, Part-time and Per Diem nurses on straight time by seniority on a rotating basis.
2. Full-Time, Part-Time and Per Diem nurses on overtime by seniority on a rotating basis.
Three weeks before the schedule period begins:
If any shift continues to have more than two RNs needed to meet routine staffing, the hospital may move nurses, by inverse order of seniority on a rotating basis, from one of their control hour shifts to the shift with the staffing need.
B. The final schedule will be determined by the manager consistent with the provisions of this section. No changes will be made to the assigned schedule once it is posted except with the consent of the nurse.
[1] In the case of nurses in flex positions, nurses will also sign up for their flex shifts. For example, a 32-hour flex nurse would sign up for 32 hours not 24 hours.
