1. The Sunday hours for each department or service desk will be offered to all
bargaining unit employees assigned to that department or service desk, on the
rotating basis of seniority. The most senior employee will choose one Sunday or
pass. Then the next most senior employee will choose one Sunday or pass, etc. The
rotation will be repeated until either all Sunday hours are filled or no employee
wants any more Sunday hours. In the case of remaining unfilled hours, Step (2)
shall then be followed.
2. Unfilled Sunday hours will be offered to all qualified bargaining unit employees
outside the department or service desk. “Qualified bargaining unit employees” are
those employees who work regular hours in the department or at the point of service,
or an employee who has familiarity with the duties in the department or at the
service desk and has the ability to perform those duties independently. Department
supervisors or schedulers will offer the unfilled shifts to qualified employees via
email or other electronic communication and allow three business days for
responses. Rules of rotating seniority apply as in Step One (1). In the case of
remaining unfilled hours, Step Three (3) may then be followed.
3. Unfilled Sunday hours will be assigned to bargaining unit employees within the
department or service desk on the basis of reverse seniority. The least senior
employee must choose one Sunday. The next least senior employee must choose at
least one Sunday, etc. The reverse rotation will be repeated until all Sunday hours
are filled.
Mealtime: Employees are allowed up to one (1) unpaid hour for meals.
Break Time:
A paid fifteen minute break is given for each four hours of work. Breaks cannot be accumulated
and may not ordinarily be used to shorten the work day or added to the meal period.
Call-Back Rights:
Any employee called back to work on an unscheduled basis after having completed his/her assigned
work schedule for the day and having left his/her place of employment and before his/her next
regularly scheduled starting time, shall be granted time and one-half in money or compensatory
time, at the discretion of the employee, for all the hours worked on call-back. The employee shall
be guaranteed a minimum of two (2) hours for being called back to the library. This provision does
not apply to split shifts.
Any employee required to perform work responsibilities when the library is closed or outside of
the employee’s normal work schedule, and the required work can be performed without the
employee physically reporting to the library, that employee shall be compensated at a minimum
of one (1) hour at the employee’s overtime rate of pay.
