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Article 8 - Hours of Work

Section A: Work Week and Shifts

  1. The standard work week for employees consists of five (5) consecutive days of work within seven (7) consecutive calendar days beginning at midnight Sunday and ending at midnight Saturday (a calendar week). The work schedule for full-time employees shall be forty (40) hours per week excluding meal times and normally scheduled in shifts of eight (8) hours. The shift worked at times between 7:00 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. will be referred to as the day shift." A shift worked at times between 4:00 P.M. and 1:00 A.M. will be referred to as the swing shift." A shift worked at times between 11:00 P.M. and 8:30 A.M. will be referred to as the night" or graveyard" shift.

  2. . A permanent work week and/or shift is defined as one which is expected to be in place indefinitely. Assignments to permanent work weeks and/or shifts will be based on all employees working in the affected Department (for example, the Facilities Management Department) by craft, in the following order: (1) volunteers from within the building management team; (2) volunteers from within the Department; (3) the application of inverse seniority. In the case of the Facilities Management Department, if necessary, an employee(s) may then be moved from one building management team to another to replace the employee(s) who was placed on the permanent shift.

  3. A temporary (or non-permanent) work week and/or shift is defined as a period of four (4) months or less. In the case of the Facilities Management Department, staffing of temporary shifts will be based on the employees working on the affected building management team. The order of assignment will be: (1) volunteers from within the building management team; (2) the application of inverse seniority. This order will be followed among the employees on the affected team on a craft basis. Assignments to temporary work weeks or shifts will be for a minimum of one week.

  4. The current swing shift (Monday through Friday) involving the Medical Center team will be made permanent.

  5. New employees will be hired under the condition that they can be assigned to any work week and/or shift once they are trained and qualified to perform the work. When work weeks and/or shifts are made permanent, existing employees may bid for these assignments on the basis of seniority.

  6. Employees to be assigned to a new work week and/or shift will be given at least one month's notice of their new assignment.

  7. At least two weeks' notice will be provided to the Union before the implementation of any work week and/or shift involving a Saturday or a Sunday (for example, a Tuesday through Saturday work week or a Sunday through Thursday work week). This notice provision applies to both permanent and temporary work weeks and/or shifts. Any work week, either permanent or temporary, which includes Sunday as a day of work will not be implemented prior to June 1, 1995.

  8. The differential rate to be paid for each hour worked by employees on a Saturday or a Sunday as part of a regularly scheduled shift, either temporary or permanent, and for each hour worked by employees on a swing" shift or night or graveyard" shift is set forth in Appendices A through C".

Section B: Rest Periods

  1. Rest periods not to exceed fifteen minutes may be granted to employees no more than twice in an eight (8) hour shift. The time shall not be taken at the beginning or end of a work period or combined with a meal period. Rest periods not granted or granted and not used shall not be accumulated. Rest periods shall be granted unless operational necessity requires that they be denied.

Section C: Show Up Time/Pay

  1. If an employee who is scheduled to work all or part of a day and reports to work as scheduled and has not been notified by 6:00 p.m. on the employee's preceding work day of a change in the employee's schedule for that day, the employee will receive a minimum of four (4) hours of work or pay.

Section D: On-Call Time/Pay

  1. On-Call is defined as time during which an employee is not required to be at the work location, but is required to be available by telephone or pager and to be available for an immediate return to work if the University deems it necessary. An immediate return to work is generally defined as the ability of the employee to be present at the work location within one hour of being contacted.

  2. As needed, employees will be assigned to On-Call status on a weekly basis. The employees assigned On-Call must be qualified to perform the functions and be familiar (in the case of the Facilities Management Department) with Medical Center protocols. The Facilities Management Department will provide the necessary training for employees to become familiar with these protocols. On-Call responsibility for Facilities Management Department employees will include the Medical Center and the campus facilities for which the Facilities Management Department is responsible. On-Call assignments will involve primarily systems" employees, that is employees in the electrical, plumbing, and mechanical crafts.

  3. Within the Facilities Management Department, all employees are eligible for the On-Call rotation. Volunteers will be accepted. The Department will publish an On-Call schedule, providing as much advance notice as possible, advising the employees of the specific days and hours of the week that they are On-Call. The schedule will be generated through the solicitation of volunteers and thereafter based on seniority for the On-Call assignments available. Singular or non-scheduled On-Call assignments of any duration are the responsibility of the affected building management team. All substitutions to the On-Call schedule must be approved.

  4. An employee who is assigned to On-Call status will be paid for such time at the rate of $2.00 per hour.

  5. If an employee on On-Call status is called back to work, a minimum of three (3) hours of work or pay is guaranteed.

Section E: Call Back

  1. An employee who has completed his/her regular schedule of work for the day or week and has left the University premises, will receive a minimum of three (3) hours pay if the employee is called back to work.