HOW DOES TITLE 202 HOURS CLARIFICATION WORK WHEN CHANGING A SERVICE EMPLOYEES SHIFT?
Excerpt from Clarification of Title 202
Shift and service employees:
Temporary changes of an employee’s work hours and/or work days shall only be made after the provisions of Section 205.3 have been applied and exhausted.
Excerpt from Title 205.3
205.3 FILLING TEMPORARY VACANCIES
(a) Whenever a vacancy occurs in any job classification, Company may temporarily fill it by assignment. In making temporary assignments to fill job vacancies, Company shall first consider employees in Relief classifications, and then, when practicable, consider the employees at the headquarters in which the job vacancy exists in the order of their preferential consideration under Section 205.7. The foregoing shall apply whether or not the vacancy is one which must be filled on a regular basis.
(b) If the vacancy cannot be filled as outlined in (a) above, and if there is no next lower classification in the headquarters, and the temporary vacancy is for more than one week, and the Company still desires to fill the temporary vacancy, the senior qualified prebidder within the Bidding Unit residing within a commutable distance (30 miles or 45 minutes road time) from the temporary headquarters shall be offered the vacancy. (Amended 1-1-91)
HOW DOES FORCED OVERTIME WORK?
Forced Prearranged Overtime: In the event there are insufficient volunteers for a prearranged overtime assignment in the necessary classification(s) and prior to requiring employees in the necessary classification(s) to work, such prearranged overtime assignment shall be offered to the qualified employee in the next lower classification who has the fewest number of prearranged overtime hours accumulated in the next lower classification. However, should that employee decline an offer to work prearranged overtime in the higher classification, such employee shall not be credited with the number of hours worked by another employee who does work.
Should a situation arise where there are no volunteers or the number of volunteers for prearranged overtime are insufficient for the work that must be performed, and no employees are available to be assigned on a temporary upgrade basis, Company shall assign the work to the employee(s) in the needed classification who has the least number of actual prearranged over¬time worked, including both those employees who have signed the annual prearranged overtime list and those who have not signed the list. If a forced prearranged overtime situation is invoked, all employees in the needed classification(s) shall be charged with the number of hours worked by the employee(s) who did work, whether signed up on the annual prearranged overtime list or not.
In each such situation of forced prearranged overtime assignment, where more than one employee has the same number of actual pre-arranged overtime hours worked and one or more of these employees is to be required to work, the employee(s) with the least Service (as defined in Section 106.3 of the Agreement) shall be required to work. If an employee has been notified that he/she is to be required to work as provided for above and such employee can thereafter locate a volunteer in the necessary classification or a qualified employee in the next lower classification to work in his/her place, such employee shall be excused from working but will be charged with the hours worked by the employee who did work. The employee must notify the supervisor of the substitution not later than the end of regular work hours on the last work day preceding the prearranged overtime assignment.
WHAT DOES PRIORITY 1 BID STATUS MEAN AND WHO DOES IT AFFECT?
If the agreement is ratified by the Gas Service membership it will create a new beginning level position. This position is next lower to the GSR and will, after successful completion of training be eligible for temporary or promotional upgrade to GSR. This being the case, the classifications listed below who were formerly next lower are now first in line to the newly created Utility GSR (after initial staffing).
{Meter Reader/Senior MR, CIP inspectors, Fieldman and Utility Worker. NOTE: 122 GSRs positions filled off the street in 2012 & 2013}
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