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What the CRONA agreement (Apr 2025 – Mar 2028) actually says, excerpted from the contract with page citations.

Section 7p. 25
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -13- 7.6.2 For purposes of overtime calculation, hours worked will include time actually worked, but will not include any time for which the time and one-half (1-1/2) premium or the double time premium has been paid. 7.6.3 The Employer will make reasonable efforts to secure volunteers from the staff on the premises, including Nurses not covered by this Agreement, and from resources outside the hospital, to replace a Nurse who is unable to work overtime. A Nurse who is too fatigued or ill to perform their duties safely will inform the Manager and be relieved of duty. 7.6.4 Double Back Premium. Any Nurse assigned to rotating shifts who is scheduled, unless by their request, to work within eight (8) hours after the end of a scheduled shift shall be paid overtime rates for the entire second shift. When a Nurse is required to stay involuntarily past the sc …
Section 7p. 26
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -14- From time to time, the Nurse Practice Committee shall meet and review the list of pre-designated appropriate sleep locations to discuss potential modifications or expansions to the list. 7.7.4 Effective August 28, 2016, a Nurse may not be assigned call in an amount exceeding twelve (12) hours per week. 7.8 Short Notice Compensation. To meet a staffing need a Nurse may be called on short notice to report for work. If the Nurse called for work is not in an on-call status on an established on-call system, the following shall apply, except in situations where a Nurse previously scheduled to work and canceled has been called in to work within one (1) hour of the initial cancellation. 7.8.1 A Nurse requested to report to work prior to the normal starting time of their assigned shift will be paid one and one-half (1-1/2) times the regular hourly rate fo …
SIDE LETTERp. 106
Between Stanford Health Care and CRONA Re On Call and Overtime Issues 2016 This Side Letter applies to the Employees in Units that utilize an on call system. A. On Call Shift Selection/Assignment Procedures With the exception of the Cath Lab, the on call shift selection and assignment procedures in effect in the various departments will remain in effect unless and until the Unit/Department on call committee recommends a change which is adopted by the vote of 2/3 of the employees performing call in the Unit/Department, and reviewed and approved by the Employer. In the Cath Lab and in any new unit where call is utilized during the life of this Side Agreement 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 following selection pro …
Section 7p. 24
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -12- (2) If a Nurse works a ten hour shift which is a combination of day shift and either evening or night shift hours, the applicable shift differential will be paid only if at least half of the hours worked are between the hours of 3:00 PM and 7:00 AM. (3) If a Nurse works a twelve hour shift which is a combination of day shift and either evening or night shift hours, the applicable shift differential will be paid only if at least half of the hours worked are between the hours of 3:45 PM and 7:15 AM. 7.5.7 Differential for PTO Hours. A differential of ten percent (10%) or eighteen percent (18%) respectively will be paid to Regular Nurses claiming PTO if they are permanently assigned to evenings or nights. Permanent assignment constitutes an anticipated or realized six (6) months of assignment. This assignment is agreed upon by the Regular Nurse and …
Appendix A of this Agreement on an all hours worked basis. Relief Nurses shall bep. 55
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -43- seek input from the Relief Nurse and respect the individual’s assessment of those skills. Relief Nurses who have been prescheduled to work are required to call in prior to the beginning of the scheduled shift to confirm that they are needed. Relief Nurses who fail to contact their unit pursuant to this subsection will not be eligible for report time pay. 15.14.2 Relief Nurses are expected to provide their availability including weekend and holiday commitment when applicable to the respective Schedule Planner according to the established cut-off dates for schedule planning. Availability must be provided up to the Relief Nurse’s full commitment. A Relief Nurse who is scheduled to work is expected to work unless canceled by the Employer. Failure of a prescheduled Relief Nurse to work will be considered a failure to keep commitment under 15.12.1. 15. …
SIDE LETTERp. 107
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 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 that on call shift) on the second and subsequent incidents of Contiguous …
Section 7p. 23
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -11- this Agreement. Any Nurse who is designated, and acts as and in lieu of, an APCM or PCM, for a continuous period of fifteen (15) calendar days shall be designated in writing as an APCM or PCM and shall receive a premium of 7.5% of the Nurse’s base rate for each shift for which the Nurse is so designated and acts in this capacity. Such written designations shall automatically terminate on the end date specified on the initial designation unless extended in writing. Any temporary designation as an acting APCM or PCM or other non-unit position shall not result in any reclassification of a Nurse or in the loss of any seniority or change of any CRONA benefits during the time such position is held. A Nurse’s temporary assignment outside the CRONA bargaining unit shall not otherwise be subject to review under this Agreement. 7.5 Shift Differentials. 7.5 …
Paid Time Off (Pto) And Extended Sick Leave (Esl)p. 39
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -27- m. Cash Out PTO Account. Thirty (30) days prior to implementation of the Cash Out PTO Account, the Employer will distribute to Nurses a written explanation, written in a manner intended to be readily understandable, of the accrual cap and the Cash Out PTO Account how they will work, how to check PTO and Cash Out PTO balances, and where to call with questions. Any Nurse who, as of the one hundred twentieth (120th) day following ratification of this Agreement, has accrued but unused PTO in an amount in excess of two hundred sixty (260) hours, will have the accrued but unused PTO hours that exceed two hundred sixty (260) hours transferred into a Cash Out PTO Account. The hours so transferred shall thereafter be paid out to the Nurse annually, on the last payday of August, in an amount up to one hundred (100) hours until the Cash Out PTO Account has …

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