Designated Position Start Times. For a specified number of employees in locations specified by the parties, where an employee’s assignment is predicated upon servicing certain trains, and in situations in which such trains become delayed en route more than two hours and said delay impacts the work assignment, the employee’s assignment may be set back upon at least three hours advance notice given before the usual reporting time of the assignment. The advance notice will specify the new reporting time for that day, and the employee’s shift will not begin until that time. The shift will not be set back more than three hours. Employees on these assignments will be paid an allowance of $1.00 per hour for the first eight hours worked when set back. Any subsequent overtime worked on such day will be paid at the normal rate of the work performed and shall not include such $1.00 per hour. Local Management and the Local Committee or Local Union, as appropriate, at the work locations where this rule is applicable will meet within 10 days of the signing of this agreement to establish mutually agreed upon “notification procedures” and to identify the positions to be covered under this agreement. At locations where said procedures or positions cannot be agreed upon within 30 days of the signing of this agreement, then the General Chairman and the Director of Labor Relations will establish the “notification procedures” for the location. During these first 30 days the local management and the union will review existing operations to see if alternatives to the “set back” provision are appropriate and would produce the same savings. Unless any such alternative is agreed upon by the local parties with the approval of the General 16 Adapted March 1, 1999 Chairman and the Director of Labor Relations, this provision will be implemented on the 30th day of the signing of the agreement. * See Letter No. 11 of this Agreement consolidation for the locations, trains and numbers of employees to which this will apply.
