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Work Schedules & Posting — University of California RNs (UCSF, UC Davis & all UC)
What the California Nurses Association (CNA/NNU) agreement (Jul 2022 – Jun 2025) actually says, excerpted from the contract with page citations. Note: A successor agreement (2025–2030) was ratified in Dec 2025; its full text is not yet published. This is the latest published complete contract.
2. Holiday Schedules - The University shall post-holiday schedules at least four (4) weeks in advance of each of the following holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. At UC Berkeley Student Health Center, the University shall post furlough schedules six (6) weeks in advance of furlough, provided that Nurses have submitted their work date preferences for the summer furlough by March 1, and/or for the winter furlough by October 1. 3. "Posted work schedules" as used in this Article shall mean a computer based, printed, typewritten or handwritten schedule that is posted in or accessible at a work site area of the affected Nurse. Schedules shall include shift and starting time in accordance with campus posting procedures. 4. Part-time career Nurses who have indicated their availability for additional assignments shall, when practicable, be offered the opportunity to work additional …
Exempt Nurse Anesthetist Side Letter: Attachment 2 Exira Shift Payment Plan for UCD CRNAs 1. • Career CRNAs are eligible for the Extra Shift Payment Plan. 2. Pa1ticipation in the Extra Shift Payment Plan is voluntary. 3. • Career CRNAs will sign-up identifying their preference of days. 4. CRNAs must have completed their standard work schedule in order to be eligible to receive the extra shift payment for working additional shifts (e.g., if out due to illness, CRNAs are ineligible for extra shift payment during that pay period; however, if they choose to work a scheduled extra shift, that day can be used in lieu of sick leave, and no time will be deducted from their sick leave accrual). 5. The Clinical Vice-Chair, the Nurse Anesthetist Manager-I, or designee, shall designate and identify extra shifts eligible for the Extra Shift Payment Plan. 6. Hours identified for Extra Shift designatio …
1. A work schedule is the normal hours of work for a Nurse within a work period. Nurses will be scheduled in accordance with the needs of the University, subject to the provisions of this Article. 2. Full and part-time work schedules which may be established by the University include, but are not limited to: a. eight (8) hours per day, excluding meal periods, on five (5) separate days within a workweek; b. eight (8) hours per day, excluding meal periods, on ten (10) separate days within two (2) consecutive workweeks; c. ten (10) hours per day, excluding meal periods, on four (4) separate days within a workweek; d. ten (10) hours per day, excluding meal periods, on eight (8) separate days within two (2) consecutive workweeks; e. twelve (12) hours per day, excluding meal periods, on ten (10) separate days within three (3) consecutive workweeks; or f. twelve (12) hours per day, excluding me …
1. Work Schedules - The University shall post work schedules at least two (2) weeks in advance. The University shall not change the posted schedule without two weeks personal notice to the Nurse. Insofar as practicable, the University shall update posted work schedules as changes occur. Docusign Envelope ID: F99CCBA1-32AA-4BEB-B549-08B74A2110BB Docusign Envelope ID: C4078131-7E64-4016-9601-5580E984F282
Leave, the nurse shall be eligible for leave for the period of verified pregnancy-related disability up to four months of leave per pregnancy. 2) For the purposes of FML, twelve (12) workweeks is equivalent to 480 hours of scheduled work for full-time career nurses who are normally scheduled for eight (8) hours per day five (5) days per workweek (8/40) schedule. 3) For nurses who work other than an 8/40 work schedule, the number of FML days for which the nurse is eligible shall be adjusted in accordance with their normal work schedule. a) For the purposes of FML only, 480 hours shall be the equivalent of twelve (12) workweeks for full-time career nurses who are normally scheduled to work other than eight (8) hours per day, five (5) days each work week (8/40) schedule. While the use of FML need not be consecutive, in no event shall a nurse's aggregate use of FML exceed a total of twelve ( …
A. The University shall provide paid release time for up to nine (9) members of the bargaining unit for the purpose of negotiating this Agreement and any subsequent Agreement as provided in Article 38, Duration. At least two (2) weeks in advance of the onset of scheduled negotiations, the Association will provide the University with the names and locations of the Nurses who are to receive paid release time. 1. No more than one Nurse will be released from each location, with the sole exception of one (1) “at large” Nurse. A location is defined as: UCLA Westwood, UCLA Santa Monica, UCLA, UCSDHS Hillcrest, UCSDH La Jolla, UCSD, UCDH, UCD, UCIMC, UCI, UCSFMC, UCSF Mission Bay, UCSF, UCB, UCSC, UCR, and UCSB. 2. Association bargaining team members will remain constant; in the event that a substitution is required, CNA will make every reasonable effort to advise the University of the alternate …
1. The University may temporarily require shift rotation to ensure proper skill/competency mixes on all shifts. a. The University will not require career Nurses with ten (10) or more years of UC Nurse service to rotate unless there is no qualified Nurse with less than ten (10) years of UC Nurse service available and the University, at the time of the rotation assignment, provides the Nurse with a written statement of the reasonable basis for such an assignment. 2. When the University requires a Nurse to change from a day, evening, or night shift to another shift, the Nurse shall receive at least forty-eight (48) hours between the shift rotations, unless the Nurse requests less time off. 3. The provisions of §P. do not apply to Nurses reporting in to work from on-call status or Nurses who volunteer. Q.
the “return to work” status and the start of the Nurse’s immediately following regularly- scheduled shift, and the Nurse is too tired to work that shift, the Nurse may request to be excused for part or all of that shift. A Nurse’s request to be excused for part of a shift shall be subject to mutual agreement between the Nurse and the University, and shall not be unreasonable denied. A Nurse’s request to be excused for all of the shift shall not be unreasonably denied. Unless the Nurse has requested to be excused, the Nurse is expected to work their regular shift. 3. The provisions of this section shall not apply in a situation where a Nurse has been off work for at least six (6) hours and subsequently returns to work from on-call status within two (2) hours or less immediately preceding the start of the Nurse’s next regularly scheduled shift. P.
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