Deck Employees. Each full time employee shall receive one (1) day (eight [8] hours) of sick leave credit for each completed month of service commencing with the employee’s date of employment. Sick leave credits shall accumulate. An employee is entitled to use accrued, unused paid sick leave beginning on the ninetieth (90th) calendar day after the commencement of their employment. Sick leave accruals for part-time and/or temporary employees will be computed on a percentage of two thousand eighty (2,080) straight time or guaranteed time hours compensated during the year. Each part-time and on-call employee may request to have an audit of their sick leave accruals within fifteen (15) days of their anniversary date. The audit will adjust sick leave credits up or down based on the percentage of two thousand eighty (2,080) hours for each employee. Any adjustments will be credited to the employees leave bank within thirty (30) days.
Deck Employees. An employee who wishes to be called for overtime on their regularly scheduled day(s) off will advise Dispatch in writing and will be placed on the overtime availability list. Employees will be dispatched by OS seniority from the overtime availability list, starting with the most senior employee. Employees may limit the routes or hours they will work using the Overtime Route Preference sheet. Once an employee has been dispatched for an overtime opportunity, their name will be checked off for that work period. At the beginning of each work period, Dispatch will return to the top of the overtime availability list and will repeat the process set forth. Dispatch shall call and leave a message describing all known overtime assignments, including location and hours of overtime assignments. Confirmation of start time will be made if needed during a return phone call.
Deck Employees. For the purpose of substitution appointments, a watch is the group of employees who are normally assigned to work the same hours on the same shift on the same vessel. Substitution appointments will be offered in the following order:
