Layoff & Reduction in Force — Kaiser Permanente — Northern California RNs & NPs

Payroll is not able to verify an error within the designated time period, the Nurse(s) who reported the error shall be informed within the designated time period of the reasons for the delay in resolving the error. Employee vacation, sick, and education leave accrual hours and balance will be displayed on Employee payslips. ARTICLE VIII – SENIORITY Section A – Seniority, Accumulation and Application Regular Nurses and Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall have equal seniority for transfers, promotions, and layoffs based upon their bargaining unit seniority. Regular Nurses shall accumulate seniority based upon length of continuous service with the Employer under this Agreement. Effective September 1, 2002, Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall accumulate seniority on the basis of eighty-seven (87) hours of work equaling one (1) month's seniority credit, for hours worke …

the purpose of removing that Nurse from the bargaining unit, or eliminate or remove from bargaining unit nurses the direct care responsibilities of Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners described in the preceding paragraph. Finally, the Employer also agrees that during the term of this Agreement it will not challenge the Union’s right to represent any Nurse in any job classification covered by this Agreement based on a claim that such Nurse is a supervisor within the meaning of the NLRA. Disputes concerning this provision may be referred directly to an expedited arbitration. The sole issue in any such arbitration shall be whether the Employer violated the commitments set forth in paragraph 103 of the Agreement. If the Employer is found to have violated paragraph 103, the sole remedies shall be restoration of the status quo ante, and a make- whole remedy for the affected bargaining u …

Starts fringe benefit accumulation at prorated basis as of date of change in status. However, if the Nurse previously had been a Regular full-time or Regular part-time Nurse with no break in service, the Nurse retains for fringe benefit accumulations the same date the Nurse had when a Regular full- time or Regular part-time Nurse, adjusted forward for the length of time in Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem status. The Nurse also in such cases retains any unused sick leave and Education Leave accumulated while in Regular full-time or Regular part-time status. ARTICLE VII – HOURS OF WORK Section A – Payroll Week, Work Week and Payroll Day Payroll Week “Payroll week” as used in this Article shall mean and consist of the seven (7) day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, or at the shift change hour nearest that time. Work Week The “work week” means the “payroll week” for all purposes, inc …

board access shall not be unreasonably denied. A designated Association representative shall be responsible for posting material submitted by the Association, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Employer before posting. The Association agrees that no controversial material shall be posted. It is further agreed that the Employer shall post position vacancies as provided in Article IX of the contract on such bulletin boards. ARTICLE V – PERSONNEL CATEGORIES Section A – Probationary Nurses Regular Registered Nurses may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure within the first ninety (90) days of employment. Short- Hour, Temporary and Per diem Registered Nurses may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure until such Nurse has been employed for six (6) months or worked three hundred (300) hours, whichever comes first. Section B – Regular Nurses A Regula …

Notice in writing of discharge or suspension shall be sent to the Association within twenty-four (24) hours of such action excluding holidays and weekends. The seven (7) calendar days provided for filing in Step Two shall commence from the date that the notice to the Association is postmarked.

The Employer shall prohibit the possession of knives, guns, and other weaponry in the workplace by anyone other than designated security and law enforcement personnel, and shall post such notice in all public entrances.

Any regular Nurse who has been continuously employed by the Employer for six (6) months but less than twelve (12) months and whose employment is terminated because of a reduction in staff shall be given one (1) weeks’ notice or one (1) week's regular straight-time pay equivalent to what the Nurse was receiving immediately prior to termination.

AGREEMENT THIS MASTER AGREEMENT, made and entered into this first day of September 2022 by and between the CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”), and KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS and THE PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP, INC. (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Employer”), covers all Registered Nurses (hereinafter referred to as “Nurses”), in those classifications specified in Article XXIII who are employed in existing facilities of the Employer located in Northern California. PREAMBLE Nurses and Kaiser Permanente agree to promote optimal patient outcomes and to adhere to applicable state and federal statutes related to the delivery of health care. California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and Kaiser Permanente agree that healthcare is a human right. The parties agree to work jointly to end racial and ethnic disparities in heal …