Low Census & Cancellation — Lucile Packard Children's Hospital RNs

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -14- 7.7 On-Call System. On-Call is not considered to be hours worked. The Nurse is not required to remain on the Employer premises or any other particular place, but is required to leave word where they may be reached by telephone or beeper. The Employer will compensate a Nurse on on-call at one-half the hourly base wage rate for scheduled on-call hours. If a Nurse is called into work while on on-call status, they will be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1 ½) times the regular hourly rate of pay for actual hours worked and will be guaranteed a minimum of two (2) hours’ pay at this rate, unless, with supervision’s approval, the Nurse wishes to return to their home to resume on-call status. A Nurse called in to work under this paragraph will be compensated according to subsection 7.6 for any overtime hours worked. 7.7.1 Sleep Room. The Employer s …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -75- 36.3.2 Selection of Those to Be Laid-off. The Employer shall designate the area or areas including the unit as appropriate where layoffs are to occur and the number of Regular Nurse positions. Within the designated areas, the Employer will select Nurses for layoff by seniority provided that, in the Employer’s judgment, skills and abilities of the affected Nurses are substantially equal, and in accordance with the Employer’s assessment of operational needs. Where travelers are employed in a unit where layoffs are occurring, the contracts for the travelers in the unit will be terminated as soon as the terms of the contract permit, until all laid off Regular Nurses from that unit have the opportunity to return to a regular position, but not to exceed a period of twelve (12) months from the effective date of layoff. 36.3.3 Placement Alternative to L …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -74- rotation of enforced absent days; proportional reduction of hours among Regular Nurses; cross-training. b. Order of temporary layoffs. If the Employer determines, in its sole discretion, that there should be temporary layoffs among Regular Nurses, seniority shall be the determining factor for making any necessary temporary layoffs, provided that in the Employer’s judgment skill and ability of the Regular Nurses affected is substantially equal, and in accordance with the Employer assessment of its operational needs. For Regular Nurses with the same Seniority Date order of seniority shall be determined by application date, if the application date is the same it shall be determined by lot. 36.2.4 “A” Time Credit. Nurses eligible to accrue PTO shall accrue “A” Time Credit on the same productive hours as PTO is accrued, at the following accrual rate. …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -26- accrual will cease until the Nurse utilizes PTO hours and reduces the accrual to below five hundred twenty (520) hours. As an exception, if a Nurse who accrues a balance of four hundred eighty (480) hours of PTO has made three (3) or more attempts within a calendar year to schedule PTO in advance, in writing and in accordance with departmental procedures, including alternative date requests, and all of the Nurse’s requests for PTO within that same calendar year were denied, then upon the Nurse’s prompt request, he/she will be granted PTO in an amount equal to the greatest amount of PTO requested in any one of the previously denied requests, up to eighty (80) hours. The PTO will be granted within ninety (90) days, but at a time consistent with operational needs to the extent possible, and not during the period between December 10th and January 5t …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -24- Accrual Rates for Full-Time 12-hour shift Nurse Years of Service Time Accrued Per Hour Worked Projected Annual Hours For Full-Time 12-Hr Employee Projected Annual Days For Full-Time 12-Hr Employee First year of employment .1000 187.2 15.6 2nd through 3rd year .1193 223.33 18.6 4th through 9th year .1385 259.27 21.6 10th & subsequent years .1500 280.80 23.4 9.1.4 Use of PTO. a. PTO may be used as soon as it is earned. PTO may not be used in advance and may not be used on regularly scheduled days off. All PTO hours will be taken in the same manner as the Nurse is normally scheduled to work: e.g., In 8 hour increments for 8 hour shifts, and in 12 hour increments for 12 hour shifts. b. PTO, as with all other time off such as absent time, must, except in unusual circumstances, be requested in writing in advance of the time off desired, and approved i …

9.1 Paid Time Off (PTO). 9.1.1 Purpose and Rate of Pay. Paid Time Off (PTO) allows individual flexibility in time off, subject to the Employer’s reserved right to determine scheduling and ensure the continuity of patient care. PTO compensates Regular Nurses at their hourly base wage rate of pay when they are absent from work for such purposes as vacation, illness, holidays, family emergencies, religious observances, preventive health and dental care, and other approved elective absences. A Regular Nurse permanently assigned to evenings or nights at the time of payment will receive a full shift differential. See Section 7.5.7. 9.1.2 Eligibility. All Regular Nurses (excludes Relief) who are categorized as regular or trial period, whether full-time or part-time, are eligible for PTO. 9.1.3 Accrual. a. PTO is accrued on the basis of paid hours, on a maximum of eighty (80) hours in a pay peri …

The existing on call shift selection and assignment procedures in effect in the PACU will remain in effect until a new procedure is jointly developed by the parties, and reviewed and approved by the Employer. That on call shift selection and assignment procedure will remain in effect unless and until PACU on call committee recommends a change which is adopted by the vote of 2/3 of the employees performing call in the PACU, and reviewed and approved by the Employer. In the ORs that are expected to be opened during the life of the Master Agreement between the parties, prior to the development of an on call selection and assignment procedure by an on call committee, and adoption by 2/3 of the employees to perform on call in the unit and review and approval by the Employer, the policy for selection of, and assignment of on call shifts shall be that presented to CRONA during the negotiations …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -33- 1. For the contract period, the dates inclusive of the academic year, for which a Regular Nurse will be able to use their education hours, are as follows: 2025/2026: August 31, 2025 through August 29, 2026 2026/2027: August 30, 2026 through August 28, 2027 2027/2028: August 29, 2027 through August 26, 2028 2. For the current 2024 – 2025 academic year, Nurses still have the ability to use Education Hours through August 30, 2025. b. Mandatory hours of on-call will accrue tuition reimbursement dollars and education hours at 1/2 time. These mandatory on-call hours count towards total commitment for purposes of calculating tuition reimbursement and education hours only. (For example, 24 hours of mandatory on-call equals 12 hours counted toward commitment.) 13.5.2 Procedure. a. The Employer shall schedule educational hours in accordance with scheduled …