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Shift Differentials (Evening & Night Pay) — 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 -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 …
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 -41- Classifications Holiday Commitment Weekend Commitment “A” – 16 hours per 80 hour pay period. Only RNs with at least 1 year of acceptable experience will be accepted as “A” commitment. At least 1 of the following Holidays: December 24-evening shift December 24-night shift December 25-day shift December 25-evening shift December 31-evening shift December 31-night shift January 1-day shift 1 weekend in a 4 week period. “B” – 24-32 hours per 80 hour pay period At least 1 of the following Holidays: December 24-evening shift December 24-night shift December 25-day shift December 25-evening shift December 31-evening shift December 31-night shift January 1-day shift 1 weekend in a 4 week period. “C” – 40-56 hours per 80 hour pay period. At least 1 of the following Holidays: December 24-evening shift December 24-night shift December 25-day shift December …
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 …
Between Stanford Health Care and Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) 2010 The following side letters were previously agreed to between the Stanford Health Care and CRONA and will be continued for the term of the current agreement. A. Weekend Differential. (8/20/96) This letter will record and confirm our agreement pertaining to the interpretation of the application of weekend differential contained in the 1996-1998 collective bargaining agreement. Weekend differential will be paid to Nurses for productive hours worked on a weekend. Refer to Section 7.5.4 of the Agreement for details. The weekend for the purpose of weekend differential pay only is defined as follows: Saturday and/or Sunday for all or part of the day and evening shifts; Night shift beginning Friday and/or Saturday night unless otherwise designated by agreement between Nursing Administration and the Nur …
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 -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 -31- (3) Effective January 1, 2017, the Employer will match the voluntary contribution of a Regular Nurse with between five (5) and ten (10) years of retirement eligible service up to five percent (5%) of pension- eligible earnings, and the Employer will match the voluntary contribution of a Regular Nurse with ten (10) or more years of retirement eligible service up to seven percent (7%) of pension-eligible earnings. (4) Effective the first pay period of 2022 (pay period beginning 12/26/2021), the Employer will match the voluntary contribution of a Regular Nurse with fewer than five (5) years of retirement eligible service up to five percent (5%) of pension-eligible earnings, the Employer will match the voluntary contribution of a Regular Nurse with between five (5) and ten (10) years of retirement eligible service up to six percent (6%) of pension-el …
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