On-Call, Standby & Callback Pay — 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 …

Contiguous Call Back Work shall be defined as call back work that meets all of the following requirements: 1. The Nurse’s on call shift (regardless whether assigned or voluntary) begins immediately upon the end of the Nurse’s regular work shift; and 2. The Nurse either is advised that their services on a call back basis will be required at the beginning of the on call shift or is called and reports back to work within ninety (90) minutes of the end of their regular work shift; and 3. The call back work is not time spent beyond the shift to finish reporting or charting, or to finish the Nurse’s own assigned duties where the time spent is sixty (60) minutes or less. If all of these requirements for Contiguous Call Back Work are satisfied, the Nurse shall be paid an additional half-time premium for all hours worked during the eligible on call shift (including the first hour worked during th …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -13- 7.6 Overtime Compensation. 7.6.1 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, Nurses will be paid overtime as follows: a. For Nurses regularly assigned to work twelve (12) hour shifts, overtime will be paid for all hours worked in excess of twelve (12) in the work day at the rate of two times (2x) the Nurse’s regular rate; b. For Nurses regularly assigned to work shifts of eight (8) or more hours, but less than twelve (12) hours, overtime premium will be paid for all hours worked in the work day in excess of the regularly scheduled shift (e.g. 8, 9, 10, or 11) up to twelve (12) total hours worked at the rate of one and one half (1½) times the Nurse’s regular rate, and for all hours worked in the work day in excess of twelve (12) hours at the rate of two times (2x) the Nurse’s regular rate; c. Nurses will also be paid overtime premium for all …

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 -12- c. Weekend Shift. see Section 16.1. 7.5.3 Payment. A differential of ten percent (10%) will be added to the base wage rate for all regularly scheduled “evening” shifts worked; a differential of eighteen percent (18%) will be added to the base wage rate for all regularly scheduled “night” shifts worked. 7.5.4 Weekend Differential. Effective May 22, 2016, any Nurse working on a weekend will receive a differential of $3.00 per hour. Effective July 10, 2022, the weekend differential shall be paid as follows: Any Nurse assigned to work on a weekend will receive a differential based upon five percent (5%) of the Nurse’s base wage rate. 7.5.5 Additional Weekend Incentive Differential. If a Regular Nurse is required to work more than four (4) weekend shifts in a schedule period, they will receive a differential of Five Dollars ($5.00) per hour (in lieu …

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 …

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 -38- 14.11.2 Weekend shifts are as defined in Section 16.1. PACU/Teleservice/Clinic Nurses shall be subject to all provisions set forth in this section with the exception of those provisions specifying weekend commitment. The weekend commitment required of such Nurses will be based on the department needs. However, the aforementioned Nurses shall not be required to work weekends beyond the levels established in Section 14.11.1 above. 14.12 Compensation and Benefits. 14.12.1 Relief Nurses will be paid in accordance with the salary schedules set forth in Section 7.1 of this Agreement on an all hours worked basis. Relief Nurses shall be eligible for progression to the next salary step upon the accumulation of one thousand (1000) hours of work, provided (a) no Relief Nurse shall advance more than one (1) step during the twelve (12) month period commencin …