PHYSICAL AGREEMENT
TITLE 208 - OVERTIME
Section 208.12 Prearranged Overtime
| Section | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RC 23540 | 8/16/2017 | Electric Operations-M&C-Santa Cruz:This case involves whether or not notice of an overtime assignment was provided before a "preceding work period" under Section 208.12 of the Physical Agreement. Decision: The Committee agreed to make an equity settlement of the difference between the 1 ½ hours rate already received by the Grievants versus the double time rate. |
| RC 21802 & 21844 | 4/23/2014 | Gas Operations-Field Services: Case Concern the appropriate rate of overtime for a Gas Services Representative who was called into work prior to the beginning of his pre-arranged overtime assignment. Committee agrees to close grievance, consistent with RC-1064, RC-1499, PRC-2076, and PRC-2184, the 1.5x overtime rate was appropriate, as the start time was accelerated. |
| RC 21984 | 12/18/2013 | The cancellation of a pre-arranged overtime assignment of a Lineman to monitor a Company generator as the Co. opted instead to use a 3rd party security guard. Agreed that the monitoring of generators is considered BU work, which should be performed by whether a Co. employee or a contractor as provided for in LA 09-41-PGE. Since this was pre-arranged assignment, any concerns over equitable distribution should be evaluated at the end of the year. |
| LA 12-61 | 11/5/2012 | To pay employees (deployed to NY due to Hurricane Sandy) at the double time (2x) rate for POT scheduled on a non-workday and for work performed outside of normal work hours on a workday during this temporary assignment retroactive to their first day of deployment. Agreed that the Co. provide a comparable substitute meal at a staging station satisfies the provisions of T104. |
| P RC 21400 | 7/20/2012 | Companys use of a contract crew to perform EOT work. Agrees to close this case without adjustment with the understanding that the intent of LA 09-41 is to seriously consider T300 employees for emergency duty. |
| P RC 18151 | 2/27/2009 | Riding the shuttle bus is not a POT assignment and, therefore, does not allow for travel time pay from home at the beginning of the assignment. |
| LA 07-52 | 10/25/2007 | Provide mutual aid to Southern California due to series of fire storms by sending GC and Div. crews on POT in conjunction with this storm. |
| P RC 12160 | 9/3/2002 | Utilizing the System Ope. was an expedient assignment because of the employees prior experience as an Electrician; that the work only took four hours; no OT was worked; and the grv. was not available to perform the work. Case closed without adjustment. |
| LA 01-20 | 4/12/2001 | The 94-53 Comm. recommends to cancel LA 98-93 (system-wide POT Procedure for Gas Systems Mntce & Gas Sys. Ope.) effective 4/30/01, thereby mutually agreeing to waive the 60-day cancellation clause. Effective 5/1/01, the number of pre-arranged hours for each employee will return to zero with future OT assignments made in accordance with Title 208 of the Physical Agmt. |
| LA R1-00-55 | 11/16/2000 | Proposes to continue to have transmission crews perform transmission line maintenance and occasional distribution work. POT - transmission line maintenance assignments will be given first to transmission crews except in the No. Coast area north of Santa Rosa and in the Bakersfield area where the distribution crews will be responsible to perform work on wood pole transmission maintenance. |
| P-RC 2203 | 2/15/2000 | No bypass occurred of an Auberry Electrician on a POT assignment. Agreed that if the grievant does not work POT on Saturdays (standing request on file due to religious beliefs), it makes him potentially more eligible for POT on other days of the week as hours worked get posted. See also 208.16. |
| P-RC 2190 | 10/28/1999 | No contractual violations occurred on POT assignment when a Troubleman performed switching at an unattended substation in the Wasco area bypassing a Sys. Ope. based on PRC 526 settlement (that switching is a common duty, but also outlined a priority of utilization of these various classifications: Troublemen, Roving Operators, Utility Operators and Relief Sys. Ope.). In addition, RSO would be utilized before Sys. Ope. in recognition that the duties of a Sys. Ope. do not lend themselves to allowing the Operators to leave their work stations. |
| LA 99-15 | 2/16/1999 | To supersede LA 97-133 and to continue the practice established by trial period in that agreement of Geysers Power Plant operations employees reporting directly to their assigned units. These agreement affected Headquarters, Temporary Assignment, Changes in Headquarters/Crews, Commuting, Vacation and Overtime. See also 202.19, 205.18, 206.4, 212.3 and 603.1. |
| LA 97-133 | 10/23/1997 | As outlined by the attached Exhibits A and B of this letter agreement (establishing geothermal unit at the Geysers Power Plant as a "Headquarters" for the Operations Dept. and all Power Plant Operators), one POT and one EOT sign-up list per crew will be maintained. Superseded by LA 99-15. |
| P-RC 2076 | 2/12/1997 | Advancing the report time by 30-60 minutes for a POT assignment where there was no change in the nature of the work performed does not constitute EOT. See also Clerical 12.7. |
| LA R1-95-159 | 1/22/1996 | Under the provisions of this section, Co. proposes to allow employees in the Support Services Unit at the Geysers Power Plant to perform pre-arranged clerical work at home on a six-month trial basis with some guidelines. See also 202.3, 202.16, 208.16, Clerical 10.7, 12.3 and 12.7. |
| P-RC 1536 | 3/31/1992 | When there is an intervening workday between when the notice is given and the prearranged overtime assignment, a violation does not occur if the notification is given outside of the employee's regular work hours, but when the employee is working. |
| LA 87-216 | 10/26/1987 | OT resulting from unanticipated continuation of workday at Moss Landing and Morrow Bay Power Plants will be recorded as prearranged rather than emergency OT, to more equally distribute OT and to decrease employees' being prearranged on weekends. See 212.8. |
| LA 87-33 | 2/20/1987 | Establishes local agreement at Geysers, with administrative procedures, for handling prearranged and emergency OT during special assignments. Includes definition of "special assignment." Superseded by LA R1-96-103. |
| P-RC 1039 | 2/21/1986 | One-day disciplinary leave upheld for employees who failed to work prearranged mandatory OT. Fourth grievant had discipline removed because he had notified supervisor that he wanted to be off, and had not used day off to which he was entitled. Decision discusses problems of mandatory OT. See 7.1 and 212.1. |
| LA 85-111 | 9/10/1985 | Pre-arranged OT provisions for Southwest Bakersfield Project. See 201.1, 202.15, and 212.2. |
| P-RCs 850 871, 872, & 873 | 1/8/1985 | In WOP decision, partial equity settlements paid to employees on 212 list in disputed cases where Union believed extension of the workday crews should have been sent home and employees from 212 list called. Committee unable to accurately determine facts due to incomplete records during storm situation. |
| P-RC 916 | 6/8/1984 | Although he was not warned about potential discipline, one-day disciplinary suspension justified for Electrical Maintenance Helper who refused to work OT. See RC 1357 (7.1) and 7.1. |
| P-RC 908 | 12/23/1983 | One hour travel time is not considered as time worked to be reimbursed at double time rate for employees who worked 12 hours pre-arranged OT at time and one-half. See 208.2. |
| RC 1499 | 9/26/1980 | Accelerating of prearranged OT from 12 a.m. Monday to five hours, 10 minutes earlier did not change the prearranged nature of the OT assignment. |
| P-RC 317 | 3/22/1977 | Prearranged OT was accelerated for seven hours, from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. of same day, thus becoming an emergency call-out. |
| RC 1249 | 7/3/1975 | Relief or OT payment for relief assignment. Revision at late date caused an assignment on day-to-day basis, causing a combination. See 202 Clarification, "202 and 208: Hours of Relief Shift Employees". |
| RCs 1064, 1081 & 1088 | 11/9/1971 | Pre-arranged OT that was accelerated three hours (from 11 a.m. to 8 a.m.) did not constitute cancellation, nor did it affect the pre-arranged status. Entitlement to meal may be a possibility. See 104.1. |
| ARB 37 | 3/30/1971 | Suspension justified for employees who refused to work pre-arranged OT. See 3.1 and 7.1. |
| RC 161 | 1/14/1958 | Discipline for refusal to work OT under emergency conditions. See 3.3 and 7.1. |
| RC 63 | 2/18/1955 | Establishment of new shift for six weeks after employees have worked for four weeks on pre-arranged basis. See 202.17. |