Fact-Finding & Investigatory Meetings — Stanford Health Care RNs

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -68- delayed to obtain the presence of a second CRONA representative. If the Nurse requests the presence of a CRONA representative, the meeting shall occur within three (3) business days of the Employer’s request for the investigatory meeting. If the Nurse requests representation and if the Hospital intends to have more than two (2) representatives (not including a management witness), the Hospital will notify CRONA in advance, and CRONA may have an equal number of representatives provided that the meeting will not be delayed to obtain additional CRONA representatives. CRONA and the Employer, with advance notice to the other party, may each invite a trainee to observe, but not participate in, an investigatory meeting, and such trainee shall not count toward the number of representatives provided for herein. For purposes of the advance notice, the Empl …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -61- assessment of the Nurse’s clinical skills shall be provided by a non-CRONA Nurse. The supervisor will advise the Nurse that they may request a CRONA representative at the meeting in which the written warning will be delivered. A CRONA representative must be available for a meeting within three (3) business days of the Nurse’s request to have a CRONA representative at the meeting, or within such additional time as is agreed to by the Employer. A recurrence of similar related misconduct may result in further corrective action or discharge. Regular and Relief Nurses who have completed the trial periods specified in Section 6 and 15 of the Agreement may grieve the Written Warning pursuant to the provisions of Section 29 and the Nurse may provide written objections to the warning within fifteen (15) days of receipt. The objections will be placed in th …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -67- submissions shall state the issue or issues and the specific Section or Sections of this Agreement which the arbitrator is to interpret or apply. c. Resolution. (1) After such hearing the arbitrator shall render as soon as possible a decision which shall be final and binding on all parties. (2) The arbitrator shall have no power to add to, subtract from, alter, modify or amend any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement. (3) The arbitrator’s authority to award monetary damages shall be limited to compensatory damages. d. Expense. The cost of compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, including the cost of a transcript unless a transcript is waived by mutual agreement of the parties and the arbitrator, shall be divided equally between the parties. However, each party shall bear its own expenses of representation and witnesses. e. Expedited …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -51- 19.3.4 Pregnancy Related Disability Leave. All female Regular Nurses covered by this Agreement are eligible for pregnancy related disability leave. The leave is granted at the request of the Regular Nurse, for the period of time during which they are incapable of performing their job because of medical disability resulting from pregnancy, delivery, or post-childbirth recovery. The Regular Nurse may take the leave without pay or use accrued PTO during any waiting period before ESL or state Disability becomes available, and may use PTO for any period after ESL is exhausted, or integrated with any State Disability income received, not to exceed the Regular Nurse’s normal pay. The leave may be as long as six (6) months when a verified disability exists. If the Nurse remains disabled following the end date of the leave the situation will be treated as …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -52- 19.5 Combinations of Leaves of Absences. Excluding military and educational leaves of absence, no combination of leaves shall be granted within any three hundred sixty-five (365) day period, measured from the first day of the first such leave, which considered together exceed one hundred eighty (180) days unless a personal leave of absence extension of up to six (6) months is granted at the sole discretion of the Regular Nurse’s supervisor with the approval of the Vice President of Patient Care. Regular Nurses with fifteen (15) years or more of service shall be granted an additional thirty (30) days of medical leave if the Nurse’s evaluations have been satisfactory and there are no corrective actions in the Nurse’s personnel file. 19.6 Reinstatement Rights. 19.6.1 In the case of State and Federal Family and Medical leaves of absence, Medical, pre …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -63- 28.3.2 After the Trial Period of Employment. a. Discipline for Cause – Regular Nurses. Regular Nurses who have successfully completed the trial period of employment will not be disciplined except for just cause. Any discipline may be appealed by the Nurse under the provisions of Section 29. Except in serious cases warranting immediate discharge, Regular Nurses discharged after the trial period of employment will receive two (2) weeks notice of discharge. Regular Nurses may be required to work as usual during the two (2) weeks or may be given pay in lieu of notice, or may be required to work part of the notice period and be paid in lieu of working the remainder of the period. b. Discipline for Cause – Relief Nurses. Relief Nurses who have successfully completed the trial period of employment will not be disciplined except for just cause. Any disci …

19.1 Eligibility. Regular Nurses covered by this Agreement who have successfully completed the trial period and who expect to be absent for family, personal, medical (including pregnancy related disability), military, or educational reasons are eligible to apply for a leave of absence. Requests for review of leaves of absence by trial period Regular Nurses will be considered by the Employer on a case by case basis. Granting or denying such requests shall be at the sole discretion of the Employer unless otherwise required by law and not otherwise reviewable under the terms of the Agreement. A granting of a leave to a Regular Nurse in the trial period shall be considered as an automatic extension of the trial period for the period of leave granted. If an approved leave of absence is granted for a period that is less than seven (7) days and the absence exceeds seven (7) days, a leave of abs …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -28- documentation. If approved by the Director of Employee and Labor Relations, payment will be made to the Nurse. Employer decisions to approve or deny requests for cash outs shall be final and binding and not reviewable under the terms of this Agreement. p. A Nurse changing status from Regular to Relief will receive an immediate cash-out of all PTO hours accrued at their hourly base wage rate, in their PTO Account, and in their Cashout PTO Account, if applicable, (not including any applicable relief per diem). q. The Employer will make a good faith effort to grant each Nurse two (2) consecutive weeks of vacation per year, if requested, without requiring the Nurse to find coverage. 10.1.5 Holidays. The following holidays are built-in components of the PTO accrual rates: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, L …