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BETWEEN

CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE WEST

AND CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

REPRESENTING SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

AND ST. MARY’S MEDICAL CENTER

July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2005

 

9.10.2. Rotation by Seniority

a.  Nurses with less than four (4) years of service:

 (1)  Such Nurses may rotate where necessary, and such rotation shall be distributed equitably, consistent with a Nurse’s qualifications to perform the work.

 

b.  Nurses with four (4) or more years of service:

 

(1)    Such Nurses shall not be required to rotate, except as follows:

 

(2).  Where rotation of such Nurses is necessitated by an emergency in order to provide safe patient care, Nurses with four (4) or more years of service consistent with a Nurse’s qualifications to perform the work may be assigned to rotate on the basis of reverse seniority, provided that reasonable attempts to obtain qualified Nurses, such as volunteers and other sources, for relief staffing have been undertaken and have been unsuccessful.  The foregoing does not prevent a Nurse with four (4) or more years of service from electing to work on a rotating shift.

 

9.14 Section N - Scheduling of Per Diems

g.  If additional shifts are needed in order to meet the core staffing needs, they will be granted to other Per Diem Nurses, two (2) shifts per week, in order of seniority.

 

h.  If additional shifts are available, they will be granted one (1) shift at a time in order of seniority until core staffing needs are met.

 

j.  At a later date, if any of these available shifts are needed to be worked, the Facility will use its best efforts to contact the available Nurses in order of seniority.

 

11.4.  Section D - Scheduling of Vacation

 

11.4.1.  Selection Procedure   Nurses shall submit their vacation preferences by February 1st of each year and the Facility shall post a schedule of vacations by March 1st of each year.

 

11.4.2.  Length of Service   If staffing and patient care requirements do not permit all Nurses requesting a certain vacation preference to take their vacations over the same period, length of service in the Facility shall be the determining factor within each unit.

 

9.11.    Section K - Reduced Hour Schedule Option

 9.11.1. Schedule   Regular Nurses on the night shift with one (1) or more years of service and Regular Nurses on the Day or P.M. shift with four (4) or more years of service with the Facility shall have the right to elect a regularly scheduled three-shift or four-shift week.  Such Nurses shall be compensated at three-fifths (3/5) or four-fifths (4/5) of their regular weekly earnings, respectively, and ARTICLE 8, Section E (Weekends Off) shall be applicable.  A Nurse exercising this option shall be granted two (2) consecutive shifts off each week.

 

BETWEEN BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

AND CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

(2003-2006)

 

Nurse’s Seniority:

 A Nurse’s seniority shall be measured from the Nurse’s most recent date of employment, with the Hospital, as a Nurse.  The Nurse’s seniority shall include all periods of the Nurse’s leave (paid or unpaid) from the Hospital, but shall not include periods of prior employment with the Hospital that ended in the Nurse’s termination, whether that termination was caused by the Nurse’s resignation or by the Hospital’s terminating the Nurse against the Nurse’s will.

 

Seniority Within Units:

Whenever the Hospital has Nurses organized into groups entitled Units or Modules, the Hospital, in laying off within any particular Unit, shall lay off the Nurse or Nurses with the least amount of seniority within that Unit.  (The Hospital, pursuant to the Management Rights provisions of this Agreement, may or may not elect to keep, create, modify, or dissolve any groups entitled Units or Modules, but the hospital shall not exercise such Management Right with the motive, in whole or in part, to affect any layoff.)


Bumping:

Any Nurse, who has 5 or more years of seniority, selected for layoff from any Unit, shall be entitled to displace any Nurse with less seniority in all of the Hospital’s other Modules (bumping”), but only if the bumping Nurse is then qualified to do the work of the bumped Nurse’s position.

 

Position Openings:

  Upon the creation of a new Nurse position, or upon an existing nurse position becoming open, the Hospital shall notify the Association, shall notify all Nurses having been laid off by the Hospital, as a Nurse, less than 12 months prior to the position opening, and shall post those position openings; such notices to such laid off Nurses, and that posting, shall be reasonably calculated to inform all Nurses of those position openings.  The Hospital shall not fill such an opening until that opening has been posted at least seven (7) calendar days, and an applicant hired for any such opening shall be allowed to begin work in that position within thirty (30) calendar days following the date of the applicant’s being hired.  In hiring for such position openings, the Hospital shall prefer applicants qualified, having been laid off by the Hospital, as a Nurse, less than 12 months prior to the position posting, and whenever there is more than one such applicant, the applicant with the greater or greatest seniority shall be preferred.  (The Hospital’s decision regarding the date to post any position opening shall not be effected, in whole or in part, by this preference for laid off Nurses.)

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