Shift Differentials (Evening & Night Pay) — 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 …

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 …

Regular, Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses who commence a shift of four (4) hours or more on the evening shift as defined below shall be paid a differential of eleven percent (11%) of the first year rate of the Staff Nurse II salary or a night shift differential as defined below of seventeen and one-half percent (17 1/2%) of the first year rate of the Staff Nurse II salary.

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 …

An employee is entitled to a Normal Monthly Pension if he/she retires on his/her 65th birthday and has completed at least one year of Pension Service. The Normal Monthly Retirement income shall be 1.4% of Final Average Monthly Compensation (FAMC is the average of the employee’s base monthly compensation rate for the highest sixty consecutive months within the last 120 months of employment) multiplied by years and partial years of Credited Service. For purposes of determining FAMC, the base monthly compensation rate shall include evening and night shift differentials. For employees retiring on or after January 1, 2007, the pension multiplier shall be 1.45% of Final Average Monthly Compensation. Postponed Retirement

Nurses who are regularly scheduled, and are paid the contractual differential, for Night or Evening Shifts shall be paid for such differential when they are required or permitted to attend meetings scheduled by the Employer, regardless of the times for the meetings, for all hours of such meetings. Evening Shift Definition

If the educational program has a duration of less than four (4) hours and falls entirely outside the Nurse's shift, the Nurse shall not receive educational leave pay. In view of the fact that Nurses assigned to the night shift of operations seldom, if ever, have educational programs available during their normal hours of work, an exception to this subsection will be as follows: A night shift Nurse who attends educational programs which would otherwise qualify under the educational leave and pay provisions but fall entirely outside of the Nurse's night shift, may accumulate such educational leave time until (s)he has accumulated the equivalent of a full shift. At that time equivalent paid time off at the mutual convenience of the facility and the Nurse will be arranged. If the approved educational program is four (4) hours or more in duration, the Employer will excuse the Nurse from the n …