Meal Periods & Rest Breaks — Kaiser Permanente — Northwest RNs (Oregon / SW Washington)

Employees are entitled to take rest periods daily, which insofar as practicable as determined by the Employer shall be in the middle of each work period. 15.I.1 Departments will be staffed appropriately to provide for RN breaks and lunches. 15.I.2 No wage deduction shall be made for such rest periods. Rest periods for employees working an eight (8) hour shift shall be computed on the basis of fifteen (15) minutes during each half (1/2) of their work shift. Rest periods for employees working a nine (9) or ten (10) hour shift shall be computed on the basis of twenty (20) minutes during each half (1/2) of their work shift. An employee working a twelve (12) hour shift shall be allowed three (3) rest periods of fifteen (15) minutes each. Employees working four (4) hours in a workday shall receive one (1) fifteen (15) minute rest period during such work period. Employees are required to remain …

12.B.1 Change in schedules within current hours of operation Regularly scheduled days on/off and start/stop times will be developed between managers and employees to the extent possible to achieve stability, and consistency among team members. When the Employer requires permanent changes to days on/off or start/stop times of two (2) hours or less to work groups or individual employees and when volunteers cannot be obtained, the least senior employee(s) in the nursing module(s)/department(s) shall accept the required change. 12.B.2 Changes in schedules outside of the current hours of operation, evening scheduling, weekend scheduling or other scheduled segments may be required in the interest of patient access, quality health care or efficiency of operations. If a need to change schedules outside of current hours of operation is identified, the agreed upon LMP entity and process will be ut …

10.D.1 The Employer agrees to create and post full-time positions wherever possible. This is subject to efficient operations and recruitment conditions. 10.D.2 Coded employees will not be required to rotate shifts. 10.D.3 Weekend shall mean shifts starting on Saturday and Sunday except in the case of the night shift which shall mean shifts starting on Friday and Saturday. 10.D.4 Employee’s scheduled workdays shall include rest periods, meal breaks and time to prepare for essential patient care or job responsibilities. 10.D.5 Employees will be responsible for advising the Employer of their desire to work additional pre-scheduled hours beyond their coded hours. Such requests will be made prior to the posting of the next work schedule. Part- time and full-time employees who request such hours will be given first preference for such hours. The criteria in scheduling additional hours will be …

11.E.1 The Employer agrees to create and post full-time positions whenever possible. 11.E.2 Weekend shall mean shifts starting on Saturday and Sunday except in the case of the night shift which shall mean shifts starting on Friday and Saturday. 11.E.3 Employee’s scheduled workdays shall include rest periods, meal breaks and time to prepare for essential patient care or job responsibilities. Recognizing that the workday for field PHNs is mostly self-managed, field staff are

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 responsible to assure that rest periods and meal breaks are taken. See

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 4) Outpatient Nurses will be advised at least twenty-one (21) days in advance of their scheduled hours and days. Any changes in scheduled days off will be by mutual agreement between the employee and the supervisor. b. 5/40 Employees typically will be scheduled for eight and one-half (8 - ½) hours, including the unpaid meal break, or in some cases four (4) hour segments between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. c. 9/40 All Registered Nurses assigned to work a 9/40 scheduling pattern agreed to do so as a result of the development of an alternative schedule according to the process described in this Article. This recognizes those currently occurring alternative schedules, however, future alternative schedules are subject to the same process as described in this Article. d. 4/40 All Registered Nurses assigned to work within a 4/40 scheduling pattern agreed …

11.A.1 Field: Unless there is a specific alternate schedule, the “work day” begins between 0800 and 0830 and ends between 1630 and 1700 for day shift, and 1300 to 2130 for evening shift. Recognizing that the field PHNs practice a form of telecommuting, there are certain defined activities done routinely from the staff person’s home; for example: computer data transfer, voicemail, contacting the scheduler, documentation in the electronic record, and telephoning patients to set up home visits. The employee may begin the workday with these activities; however, the time spent on non-work related activities and to travel to the first work location of the day is non-paid. Similarly, although there may be work done by the employee at the end of the day from their own home, the time spent traveling from the last work location of the day to their “home” is non-paid time. 11.A.2 Non-Field: The Res …

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 11.M.1 The total number of PHNs allowed off on any given day, for the purposes of granting requests for time off, is a formula of 1.25 PHNs off for every ten regular scheduled PHN positions. The formula for the maximum number of RN’s allowed off in CCS department , for any given day, is 12.5% of productive FTE’s from the prior 6 month period, with semi-annual adjustments made in January and July of each year. The number of RN’s granted time off in each program will be based on the percentage of PHNs working under each program. The number of PHN’s per program may exceed program maximum by 1 as long as the department total is not exceeded. Exceptions to this formula may be made with supervisory approval/discretion. For example: Total department PHN FTE equals 64. Maximum PHN’s granted time off = 64 x 12.5% = 8. Hospice RN’s are 50% of the RN’s working in the department …