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It is specifically understood by the parties that winter maintenance schedules may be declared
to be in effect only when severe or extreme road or weather conditions exist or are forecast.
When severe or extreme road or weather conditions do not exist or are not forecast, and an
employee is called outside of the established work schedule for operations such as spot
sanding or plowing isolated patches of snow and ice, such assignment must be made on an
overtime basis.
On any day on which a change from a regular work schedule to a winter maintenance
schedule, or from a winter maintenance schedule to a regular work schedule takes place, no
employee shall be scheduled to work less than the number of hours in the employee's
established schedule before the winter maintenance schedule was activated. When such
maintenance schedule is in effect, overtime rates shall be paid only for those hours worked in
excess of the number of hours in the employee's established schedule before the winter
maintenance schedule was activated except that when the consecutive hours of any
employee's work day must be interrupted, such employee shall be compensated at the
appropriate overtime rate for all hours worked outside the employee's previously scheduled
work period. In no case shall an employee be paid for those intervening hours not worked.
During the period when snow and ice control operations can be required to be performed,
callouts for snow and ice control shall be made by class seniority based on shift or strict
seniority by class.
5. Road Patrol. Under those circumstances where the Appointing Authority must reduce
hazardous driving conditions by the use of employees outside of their established work
schedule for operations such as spot sanding or plowing isolated patches of snow and ice,
such conditions may be met either by the establishment of a night patrol, or a dawn patrol, or
by calling in an employee on an overtime basis, when such conditions exist, or may exist.
The Appointing Authority may establish a weather watch, dawn patrol, night patrol, or road
patrol whose purpose is to patrol the roads and respond to or warn of hazardous driving
conditions. After taking into consideration the desires of the Local Union, the shift(s) shall
either be posted for bid or rotated. If posted, the shift(s) shall be posted only in the truck
station(s) where such shift change(s) will be made and if there are qualified bidders, the
change of shift shall be assigned on the basis of Classification Seniority on a non-rotating
basis. If there are no qualified bidders, the Appointing Authority may assign the least senior
qualified employee(s) on a non-rotating basis, or may assign the employee(s) of the truck
station on a rotating basis.
6. Fire Season Schedules. The Appointing Authority may establish fire seasons schedules to be
used in severe or extreme fire conditions. The schedule shall be posted at least fourteen (14)
calendar days in advance of the effective date each spring. The posted schedule shall also cite
the date each fall when fire seasons schedules shall no longer be in effect.
Under the fire seasons schedule, the Appointing Authority may split the available employees
into more than one (1) shift. Such shift shall be periodically rotated or established by internal
bid after taking into consideration the desire of the Local Union. The posting shall name which
employees are assigned to each shift.
It is specifically understood by the parties that fire seasons schedules may be declared to be in
effect only when severe or extreme fire conditions exist or are forecast. When severe or
extreme fire conditions do not exist or are not forecast, and an employee is called outside of
the established work schedule, such assignment must be made on an overtime basis.
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