Floating & Reassignment — Kaiser Permanente — Northwest RNs (Oregon / SW Washington)

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 of July, August, September; January 1 for the period of October, November, December. l. Employees who have been denied blocks of time off because of one or two days not meeting time off guidelines shall be able to appeal the denial to their unit manager and such appeals shall not be unreasonably denied. m. The Employer shall not include employees outside of the Bargaining Unit for determination in time off guidelines as specified in this Agreement. n. Shifts with start times other than 0645, 1245, and 2115 shall be considered as a separate shift for the purposes of granting time off, if under eighty percent (80%) of the hours of the alternative shift occur on any of the 0645, 1245 or 2115 shifts. If more than one alternative shift exists on a unit all of them shall be combined for the purposes of granting time off. 10.L. TEMPORARY RE-ASSIGNMENT OF INPATIENT RNs AT AL …

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 float out of his/her arena once all other options have been exhausted, and patient safety is at risk. f. Under normal circumstances, RN’s shall be floated within the following arena’s based on qualifications and competency: 1) Critical Care 2) Med/Surg 3) Maternity/Women’s Health g. A list of cross-trained nurses will be kept in the Staffing office. It will be updated by the Unit Managers or Nurse Educators annually or more frequently as required by employee, unit manager, or Charge RN. The Staffing office will maintain updated records of RN’s who are qualified and have agreed to float to any given unit. This information will be documented in ANSOS and available 24 hours per day. h. When RN’s are required to float, they will be given brief orientation, as needed, to the unit at that time by the Charge Nurse. i. New Graduates completing their nursing orientation will …

15.D.1 Temporary Reduction a. Temporary reduction is defined as a reduction of hours not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days. Such reduction shall take place by reverse Bargaining Unit seniority provided the remaining employees are qualified to immediately perform the required work as determined by the Employer. b. Outpatient Short-Term Cancellation Outpatient RNs will not be subject to short-term reduction. c. Inpatient Surgical Services 1) Overtime in the affected inpatient area. 2) Volunteers in the affected inpatient area. 3) External temporary employees (see Article 8). 4) On-call in the affected inpatient arena. 5) Short hour employees in the affected inpatient arena. 6) Part-time employees with no permanent work assignment in the affected inpatient arena. 7) Any employee filling a temporary position in the affected inpatient nursing unit/shift. 8) Regular employees with permanent …

For the purpose of this Article the term “float” is used to describe how an employee derives a daily work assignment. A float employee works a variable work schedule at multiple Inpatient nursing units and Outpatient nursing modules/department within or between facilities. Float employees are recognized in all of the employee definitions above, but are distinct in the variability of their work assignments. The float employees’ primary purpose is to provide replacement for scheduled and unscheduled absences of regularly scheduled employees, and to enhance the stability and flexibility of the staffing model for selected populations of clients by responding to workload fluctuations.

10.E.1 Float Positions a. Float positions can be coded for twenty (20) hours or more per week. b. Float positions may be posted for any shift and/or fixed schedules. c. Inpatient Nurses hired into a Float Pool position will be paid a differential of $3.00/hr. 10.E.2 Availability for Float Employees A float employee must be available to work at least three (3) shifts per week. Two (2) of these shifts will be on a fixed weekend pattern to include every third weekend, The shifts identified by the employee as being available must be equally distributed between days and one (1) other shift unless availability is exclusive of day shifts. 10.E.3 Non-Availability a. No more than 15% of float employees may elect to be unavailable at the same time.

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 b. Part-time float employees may elect to not be available during four (4) weeks of the year. Requests must be submitted according to the timetable in Appendix B. 10.E.4 Holiday Availability a. Float employees shall be available to work on one (1) Group A holiday, defined as Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Christmas Day or the evening shift of Christmas Eve is required every other year. b. Float employees shall be available to work on one (1) Group B holiday each year, defined as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day. 10.E.5 Pre-Scheduling Process a. Float employees will submit their availability dates for work every fourth (4th) Friday according to the schedule in Appendix B. Late submission will not exclude the employee from scheduling, but seniority will not apply until all timely submitted availability’s are sch …

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 4) Hours above coding 5) On call employees 6) Short hour employees 7) Any employee filling a temporary regular position (they will be returned to their original position) 8) Regular employees d. The affected employees shall be given at least thirty (30) days notice of layoff, or compensation at the regular rate of pay to the extent that such notice is deficient. e. Inpatient Bumping Rights Employees affected by permanent reduction in positions or hours (an employee who has been laid off in accordance with the preceding provisions) may request in writing and receive transfer to one (1) of the ten (10) least senior comparable positions in the Bargaining Unit for which she/he is qualified, or any open positions in the region. If there is no employee who is less senior than the laid off employee working in a comparable position, the laid off employee will have the option …

10.K.1 Guidelines a. Limits Per Patient Care Units in the Entire Hospital 1) Patient care units which have twenty (20) or fewer RNs with coded positions shall be limited to one (1) RN off per unit within a twenty-four (24) hour period. 2) Patient care units which have twenty-one to twenty-five (21-25) RNs with coded positions shall be limited to two (2) RNs off per unit within a twenty-four (24) hour period. The SPU and PACU shall be included in this limit. 3) Patient care units which have more than twenty-five (25) RNs with coded positions shall be limited to three (3) RNs off per unit within a twenty-four (24) hour period. These three (3) will be distributed to one (1) per shift (day, evening, and night), or two (2) per day shift and one (1) on evening OR night shift. For inpatient areas in which there are not three (3) shifts operating, the number shall be three (3) RNs off per unit w …