Overtime Rules at Kaiser Permanente — Northern California RNs & NPs

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 …

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 …

Orientation for floating purposes only: 6. Nurses subject to floating will be thoroughly oriented into the designated float unit by a designated Staff Nurse Orienteer prior to taking a patient assignment. The Staff Nurse Orienteer will not have a patient assignment during orientation. If needed, Nurses will be provided up to 8 hours of orientation to the paired float unit, if necessary, with the exception of ICU to CMU, ICU nurses will be provided up to 4 hours of orientation. Orientation is defined as those elements contained in the normal orientation of Nurses new to the unit and is not intended to include clinical competence training. It is expected that Nurses to be oriented to the new/additional unit/clinic already possess the required clinical competencies. Such orientation will be conducted in small groups. No more than 4 RNs will be assigned to one Staff Nurse Orienteer for orien …

y seniority in the same order as above but in the following sequence according to the least amount of overtime pay. Generally speaking, overtime paid at time and one-half and overtime paid at double time are offered first to departmental staff, then to qualified Float Department RNs, then to qualified staff from any department (including Float Department) within the facility, and then to qualified staff outside the facility. a) Overtime paid at time and one half: 1) Daily overtime, defined as not more than four (4) hours before or after the regular shift worked in addition to the employee’s regular eight (8) hour shift. APPENDIX M – REGIONAL SCHEDULING GUIDELINES 2) Staff who would be working the 6th day in a payroll week. 3) Staff who would be working the eighth consecutive day. b) Overtime paid at double time 1) Double shifts. 2) Staff who would be working the 7th consecutive day in a …

Part-time Regular Nurses working a minimum of twenty (20) but less than forty (40) hours per week shall be paid for holidays as follows: If the holiday falls on a normally scheduled work day and the employee is scheduled off because of the holiday, the pay for such holiday not worked shall be for the number of hours at the straight- time rate as the employee would have received had (s)he worked. For Nurses assigned to Alternative Shifts outlined in Article VII, Section E, paragraph 721 and 722, holiday hours not worked shall be paid 8 hours holiday pay for holiday not worked. If the holiday falls on a day normally scheduled off, the employee shall receive additional pay equal to one-fifth (1/5) her/his regular weekly scheduled hours of work. If a holiday other than Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Day falls on a day normally scheduled to work and the employee works such holiday, the …

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 …

APPENDIX M – REGIONAL SCHEDULING GUIDELINES Home Department RNs, Float Department RNs, Travelers working in a posted position, and block-booked supplemental RNs are scheduled up to their PARed hours. (Float Department RNs may or may not be assigned to a unit when scheduled.) These guidelines may be used for filling extra shifts during the scheduling process or to staff absences 72+ hours before need. Staff who have indicated formal availability for extra work will be called first, followed by staff who have not indicated formal availability. (Do NOT include those on the Do Not Call List) The contractual provisions for offering CNA staff extra straight time, overtime, and penalty pay third weekend work are as follows: 1. Extra straight time work is offered to Departmental Staff (includes all regular, full- time, part-time, short hour, and per diem RNs) in the following sequence: a) Depart …

a combination of the two. These options will be exercised annually as follows: 1. Full Time RNs or NPs regularly scheduled to work forty (40) hours per week may cash out up to eighty (80) hours of unused Annual Sick Leave at fifty percent (50%) of value, provided they have at least eighty (80) hours in the combined Banked Sick Leave accounts. Part Time benefited RNs or NPs regularly scheduled to work less than forty (40) hours per week may cash out unused Annual Sick Leave on a pro rated basis, and based on a pro rated number of hours to meet the above-referenced threshold. 2. RNs or NPs may choose to roll over all their unused Annual Sick Leave hours to their post-2006 Banked Sick Leave account at 100% (one hundred percent) of the hours value. 3. RNs or NPs may select either option, or a combination of the two, provided they meet the eligibility described above. 4. All unused Annual Sic …