Common use of DOCK STANDBY Clause in Contracts

DOCK STANDBY. Nurses regularly scheduled but subsequently asked not to work because of low patient census or acuity, may be placed in dock standby. Dock standby is used to cover regularly scheduled shifts that appear on a department’s monthly schedule. A. Nurses on dock standby must be available to respond within thirty (30) minutes (twenty (20) minutes for OB, Surgery and PACU) of being contacted. B. Nurses on dock standby must abstain from alcohol and drugs as defined in Hospital Drug & Alcohol Policy. C. Nurses on dock standby shall, on request, be provided a pager which shall be returned or passed on to the following shift. D. Nurses on dock standby will receive $4.15 per hour 33.00 per shift for the time spent on dock standby. Dock standby shall be assigned for the nurse’s entire shift (or remainder of shift, if the nurse is placed on dock standby after reporting for work), unless the nurse agrees to be released from dock standby prior to the end of his/her shift. E. Time spent on dock standby shall count as time worked for purposes of group benefits, including earned leave and seniority. There will be no pyramiding of benefit accrual. F. Call-in: Nurses on dock standby who are “called-in” to work shall be paid time and a half plus appropriate differentials for all hours worked at a minimum of three hours. In-services and meetings are exempt from this provision. A nurse may not receive dock standby pay and call- in pay for the same hours. G. When dock or dock standby assignments are necessary, nurses who are working extra shifts or on an unscheduled basis under Article 30, Section 5, of this agreement shall be selected first to be placed on dock or dock standby status. H. If a nurse is placed on dock standby status for less than four hours of the scheduled shift that scheduled shift does not count as a dock standby shift for purposes of the dock standby rotation system.

DOCK STANDBY. Nurses regularly scheduled but subsequently asked not to work because of low patient census or acuity, may be placed in dock standby. Dock standby is used to cover regularly scheduled shifts that appear on a department’s monthly schedule.ON-CALL ONA OPEN 4/19 31 A. Nurses on dock standby must be available to respond within thirty (30) 32 minutes (forty-fivetwenty (4520) minutes for FBC and PACUOB and twenty (20) minutes for OBfor, 33 Surgery and PACU) of being contacted. 35 B. Nurses on dock standby must abstain from alcohol and drugs as defined 1 in Hospital the Hospital’s Drug & Alcohol Policy. 3 C. Nurses on dock standby shall, on request, be provided a pager which shall 4 be returned or passed on to the following shift. 6 D. Nurses on dock standby will receive fiveour dollars and fifteen cents 7 ($4.15 5.004.15) per hour 33.00 per shift for the time spent on dock standby. Nurses on dock standby on a 8 holiday will receive seven four dollars and fiftyseventy cents ($7.504.70) per hour for the 9 time spent on dock standby. Dock standby shall be assigned for the nurse’s entire shift 10 (or the remainder of the shift, if the nurse is placed on dock standby after reporting for 11 work), unless the nurse agrees to be released from dock standby prior to the end of 12 his/her hertheir shift. 14 E. Time All time spent on dock standby shall count as time worked for purposes of 15 group benefits, including earned leave and seniority. There will be no pyramiding of 16 benefit accrual. Provided however, that all time counted towards earned leave is 17 capped as provided in Article 19. 19 F. Call-in: Nurses on dock standby who are “called-called in” to work shall be paid 20 time and a half plus appropriate differentials for all hours worked at a minimum of three 21 hours. In-services and meetings are exempt from this provision. A nurse may not 22 receive dock standby pay and call- call-in pay for the same hours. Nurses called in from dock 23 standby will be selected in a rotation that is reverse order of how they are selected to be 24 placed on standby in Article 35. 26 G. When dock or dock standby assignments are necessary, nurses who are 27 working extra shifts or on an unscheduled basis under Article 3031, Section 5, of this 28 agreement shall be selected first to be placed on dock or dock standby status. H. If a nurse is placed on dock standby status for less than four hours of the scheduled shift that scheduled shift does not count as a dock standby shift for purposes of the dock standby rotation system.