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Overtime Rules — Stanford Health Care RNs
What the CRONA agreement (Apr 2025 – Mar 2028) actually says, excerpted from the contract with page citations.
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 …
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 …
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 …
D. Mandatory Overtime If, during a pay period, a Nurse has already performed mandated overtime and the Nurse is subsequently mandated by the Employer to perform additional overtime during the same pay period, the mandated overtime hours worked on the second occasion and all subsequent mandated hours of overtime worked during the pay period shall be compensated at two times (2X) the Nurse’s regular rate of pay if the overtime would otherwise be at time and one-half (I-I/2X), or at double time and one-half (2-1/2X) of the Nurse’s regular rate if the overtime would otherwise be at double time (2X). In order for the overtime to be “mandated” or “mandatory,” the Nurse must have refused in writing to take the assignment, and thereafter been directed to do so by the Employer. Overtime at the end of the Nurse’s shift of up to one hour to complete a procedure, to complete charting or report, or o …
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 …
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 …
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -24- constitutes an anticipated or realized six (6) months of assignment. This assignment is agreed upon by the Nurse and department and indicated on a signed Personnel Action Form. 10.1.2 Eligibility. All Regular Nurses (excludes Relief) who are categorized as regular or trial period whether full-time or part-time are eligible for PTO. 10.1.3 Accrual. a. PTO is accrued on the basis of paid hours, on a maximum of eighty (80) hours in a pay period, excluding missed meal period penalties, PTO cashouts and on call pay. As an exception, eight (8) hour double shifts worked in a workday may result in an accrual of PTO over eighty (80) hours in a pay period. b. PTO accrual will continue for all hours off on Jury Duty and legal appearances as defined in Section 21, for hours the Regular Nurse would normally have been scheduled to work. c. The following accrua …
SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -48- beginning at 6:45 p.m. will be known as the night shift and Nurses working that shift will receive the applicable night shift differential for all hours worked. 18.6.6 All PTO hours will be taken in twelve (12) hour segments, except for Nurses regularly scheduled for partial shifts, who will take and be scheduled for PTO in the same manner they are normally scheduled to work. 18.6.7 Except as provided in this section, all other accruals will continue as defined in this Agreement. Pursuant to Section 7, a Regular Nurse who is scheduled for and works a twelve (12) hour shift who is requested to work prior to the normal starting time of their assigned shift will be paid at double time for all early hours worked. A Nurse working overtime contiguous to a regular shift will receive the higher shift differential of the two (2) shifts worked for the over …
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