Wage Steps & Tenure Increases — Kaiser Permanente — Northern California RNs & NPs

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 …

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 …

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 …

With the exception of the Sacramento Wage Structure (through June 30, 2009), Short-Hour and Per diem Nurses shall progress to the eighth year tenure step upon completion of seven (7) years of continuous service (not broken by termination) with Kaiser Permanente if they are presently at the fifth year tenure step rate and if they have completed at least one thousand (1,000) hours of work since progressing to the fifth year tenure step.

Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall be eligible for progression through each tenure step upon the accumulation of one thousand (1,000) hours of work, provided, 1) no Nurse shall advance more than one (1) tenure step during the twelve (12) month period commencing with the date of employment or the date of the Nurse's most recent tenure advancement and 2) the accumulation of each one thousand (1,000) hours is accomplished in no more than three (3) years from the date of assignment to the Nurse's current tenure step. If a Nurse does not work at least one thousand (1,000) hours in such three (3) year period, the Nurse will remain in the same tenure step and must commence anew, accumulation of the one thousand (1,000) hours toward tenure advancement.

With the exception of the Sacramento wage structure (through June 30, 2009), Regular Nurses shall progress to the eighth year tenure step upon completion of seven (7) years of continuous service (not broken by termination) with Kaiser Permanente if they are presently at the fifth year tenure step rate.

Regular Nurses employed under the Sacramento wage structure (through June 30, 2009) shall be eligible for the tenure step increases described above with the exception that such increases commence with the eleventh year tenure step increase. Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses

Short Hour and Per diem Nurses employed under the Sacramento wage structure (through June 30, 2009) shall be eligible for the tenure step increases described above with the exception that such increases commence with the eleventh year tenure step increase. Effective Date