Probationary Period — Kaiser Permanente — Northwest RNs (Oregon / SW Washington)

Regular, short-hour, temporary and on-call employees shall be considered probationary during the first one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days of their employment. During the probationary period, employees may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure. The current employee who moves into a new RN graduate position will have 500 work hours of probation. These probationary employees will have a review involving a manager, preceptor and union representative every 30 days for the length of the probationary period. Failure to succeed the probationary period will result in automatic referral to HR to explore other employment opportunities. Current qualified KPNW employees with good work and attendance records and positive evaluations who apply for new graduate positions will be hired over external applicants.

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 …

OFNHP – RN 2021-2025 latest date that the employee enters the benefit status. Dental plan coverage will be effective the first day of the month following three (3) months of employment in a benefit status. The three (3) month waiting period may be reduced if the employee has been employed in a benefit status previously c. Employees who become eligible for the medical and dental plan and do not enroll during the first thirty-one (31) days following initial eligibility must wait for the annual open enrollment period in January of each year. January of each year shall constitute the open enrollment period with medical coverage effective February 1. The effective date of dental coverage will be determined using the rules in this Article for newly eligible employees based on an employee’s actual employment period in a benefit status. d. Employees who lose medical plan coverage from another so …

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 …

16.A.1 Bargaining Unit seniority is defined as the total number of cumulative compensable hours with a cap of 1664 hours per year worked from most recent hire date into the Bargaining Unit as specified in Article 2 of this Agreement. Once entered in the Bargaining Unit compensable hours will be counted for all classifications worked. The Employer and the Union agree to continue an hours based seniority system provided that an acceptable methodology can be worked out. If not, seniority will be based on date of hire. Hours reported for the pension trust would henceforth be used for seniority. 16.A.2 These lists below shall be used for a six (6) month period until a new list is published. Seniority shall not apply during an employee’s probationary period, the employee will be credited with seniority in accordance with the foregoing provisions. 16.A.3 Seniority shall accrue during industrial …

11.Q.1 New employees are assigned to the geographic area and primary supervisor where the need exists. 11.Q.2 In as much as possible, geographic team assignments are kept intact, so as to provide continuity for the patient and to allow for team building. 11.Q.3 Geographic team boundaries may change periodically at the discretion of supervisors when caseload/staffing needs require adjustments so that services continue to be efficiently provided. 11.Q.4 Open territories will be posted in the department newsletter. Additionally the Supervisor will do an all-RN voicemail at least 14 days prior to the territory being assigned. Newly hired PHNs may not be assigned a territory until the 14 day notification period has expired. 11.Q.5 Transfer requests for team or territory assignment change are to be submitted to the employee’s immediate supervisor in writing. Competing requests shall be decided …

All present employees shall, within thirty-one (31) days of the execution of this Agreement, either become and remain members of the Union or pay regular fees equal to Union membership fees and monthly dues. All employees in classification covered by this Agreement who are hired by the Employer subsequent to the execution date of this Agreement shall, on or before the thirty-first (31st) day following the beginning of their employment, either become and remain members of the Union or pay regular fees equal to Union membership fees and monthly dues. Any employee who transfers to a position covered under this Agreement from a position in a comparable classification covered under a separate labor agreement with the Employer shall not be required to pay any initiation fees upon transfer, but shall pay Union monthly dues or fees equal to such dues. Employees who are required to join the Union …

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 …