Overtime Rules — 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 …

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 …

Nurses on standby duty who are called in to work shall be compensated for the time worked at one and one-half (1 1/2) times their straight-time hourly rate including shift differential; provided, however, that such Nurses are guaranteed a minimum credit of three (3) hours work for each occasion on which they are called in. However, the total hours of work paid at time and one-half (1 1/2) shall not exceed the number of hours in the standby period assigned to the Nurse and, further, the number of hours credited to the Nurse at time and one-half (1 1/2) shall be deducted from the number of hours the Nurse has been on standby to determine the number of hours, if any, to be paid at one-half (1/2) time. Not on Standby

For Master CNA Negotiations, the Union shall notify the Employer at least two (2) weeks in advance of the first negotiating session of the names of those Nurses selected to be on the CNA bargaining team. The Employer will provide paid release time for up to twenty-five (25) Nurses identified by the Association for any work days missed due to attending bargaining sessions or agreed-upon caucus days. Pay shall be at the Nurse’s straight- time rate, including shift differential, for the Nurse’s regularly scheduled hours. No pay will be due for hours in excess of the Nurse’s regular work day, or in excess of the Nurse’s regular workweek. Time spent in negotiating meetings or caucuses will not be considered time worked for purposes of calculating overtime, premiums or penalty pay under the Agreement. The Union will notify the Employer as soon as possible of any changes to the bargaining team …

Paid time is calculated by determining total paid hours for the year minus the number of vacation hours taken in week blocks. This paid time is then divided by number of weeks, which is calculated by taking the fifty- two (52) weeks in a year minus weeks of vacation blocks1 minus California Nurses Association option week if taken, minus approved leave of absence 1 The amount of approved unpaid vacation time allowed for Short-Hour Nurses will be equivalent to that accrued by Regular Nurses according to the Short-Hour equation of eighty seven (87) hours of work equal to one month of seniority. up to three (3) months’ time. Paid time divided by number of applicable weeks equals paid hours per week. This number must equal twenty-four (24) hours or more in order for a Nurse to meet the hours worked qualifications.