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Jury Duty Pay — Kaiser Permanente — Northwest RNs (Oregon / SW Washington)
What the ONA / OFNHP (AFT Local 5017) agreement (Oct 2021 – Sep 2025) actually says, excerpted from the contract with page citations. Note: A successor agreement was ratified in 2026; its full text is not yet published. This is the latest published contract.
Preamble: The Employer and the Union jointly recognize the need to balance the civic responsibility of performing jury duty with the need to maintain coded hours and staffing levels. 21.B.1 Employees with at least thirty (30) days employment in a Full-Time, Part- Time, Float or Short-Hour coded hour status who are required to report for jury service will be excused from scheduled work on such days. Such employees shall receive, on days he/she otherwise would have worked, his/her regular straight time pay, including differentials. 21.B.2 The employee must furnish the Employer with a written statement from the appropriate public official showing the dates and time served and the amount of jury pay received. In cases where there is a combination of work and jury service, hours paid for jury service shall not count as hours worked in determining eligibility for overtime. 21.B.3 For schedulin …
OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 21.B.9 An employee may use PTO, vacation time, or float days, if available, for other court appearances, provided the employee furnishes the Employer with a written statement from the appropriate public official showing the dates and time served and the amount of jury pay received.
OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 All tenure increases shall become effective at the beginning of the first (1st) full payroll period nearest the employee’s tenure increases eligibility date. 15.E. STANDBY PAY (see also Article 10, Section J) The following shall apply to Registered Nurses who are scheduled for standby off the Employer’s premises: 15.E.1 Employees on standby duty on days other than a recognized holiday shall be compensated at the rate of $4.75 per hour. Pay for standby duty on a recognized holiday shall be $11.88 per hour. There will be no deduction of the stand-by pay for hours worked and the applicable shift differential shall be paid. 15.E.2 Employees on standby duty who are called in to work on other than a recognized holiday shall be paid for the time worked at one and one-half (1- 1/2) their basic straight-time hourly rate. Employees on standby status who are called in to work o …
OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 hours are compensated for at overtime/premium rates under one provision, those same hours shall not be counted in determining overtime/premium pay under the same or any other provision. However, if more than one provision is applicable, the higher rate shall apply. 10.I.2 7/70 Schedule Employees Employees shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the straight time hourly rate, including any shift differential, for all hours of work performed in excess of ten (10) hours in any twenty-four (24) workday and for all hours compensated in excess of (40) hours within the work week, except as provided in paragraph 1 in this section. All hours worked on the eighth (8th) consecutive day worked shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) except when there is a change of schedule agreed upon between the employee and the Employer and all hours worked o …
The following days shall be observed as holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Holiday hours paid shall be counted into the calculation of overtime and shall not be counted into the calculation of consecutive day pay. There shall be no deduction in pay for the observance of the foregoing holidays for employees who have been on regular employee status for at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days prior to the holiday. Such employees working on one (1) days of the foregoing holidays shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the regular rate of pay in addition to their regular rate of pay for the holiday. For Urgency Care and Continuing Care Service employees, the actual legal holiday worked shall be paid at the overtime rate of pay. When the Kaiser Permanente designated hol …
OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 B. The expenses and fees of the mediator shall be shared equally by the parties. C. Attendance at mediation sessions shall be limited to the following: 1. Union: Spokesperson, Assigned Union Representative, Grievant 2. Employer: Spokesperson - Labor Relations Representative, Human Resources Consultant, Supervisor/Department Head or Designee 3. Observers: By mutual agreement, either party may invite observers limited to a reasonable number who shall not participate in the mediation process. 4. Witnesses: By mutual agreement, witnesses may be present who offer critical information regarding the dispute. D. Neither attorneys, court reporters, note takers, nor recording devices shall be allowed to be present at the proceedings. The mediation proceedings shall be entirely informal in nature. The relevant facts shall be presented in a narrative fashion by each party’s spok …
OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 b. Exemptions-consecutive day pay: holidays taken, float holidays taken, ill time taken, education days, stand-by hours, vacation taken, flex days taken, and non-clinical time above coding will not be included in the compensation of consecutive day pay. c. For the purposes of this provision, the following will count in calculating consecutive days of work: all core shifts, all clinical time above coding, mandatory training events, nursing unit retreats, and bereavement leave. d. When counting consecutive days of work for the purposes of premium pay, KP will count in a continuous, calendar based order. KP will not count "core shifts" first before counting "extra" shifts. e. There shall be no duplication of overtime payments for the same hours worked under any of the provisions of this Agreement. To the extent hours are compensated for at overtime/premium rates under o …
10.I.1 General - Consecutive Day Premium Rules a. Exemptions-overtime: Ill time, vacation, float holidays and funeral leave shall not be counted in the computation of overtime. b. Exemptions-consecutive day pay: holidays taken, float holidays taken, ill time taken, education days, stand-by hours, vacation taken, flex days taken, and non-clinical time above coding will not be included in the compensation of consecutive day pay. c. For the purposes of this provision, the following will count in calculating consecutive days of work: all core shifts, all clinical time above coding, mandatory training events, nursing unit retreats, and bereavement leave. d. Double shift overtime hours worked will not be included in the consecutive day premium calculation except as specified in Article 10.G.2. e. For all shifts shorter than 12 hours, employees’ work schedules shall provide for a minimum of twe …
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