Five Day Work Week for Regularly Assigned Engineers Clause Samples

Five Day Work Week for Regularly Assigned Engineers. (1) Except as otherwise provided, a work week shall consist of five consecutive days of eight hours each with two days off in each seven. (2) At points where it is not practicable to grant two consecutive days off in a work week to regularly assigned or regular relief locomotive engineers, agreements may be made to provide for the accumulation of days off over a period not to exceed five consecutive weeks. (3) Nothing in this Article shall be construed to create a guarantee of any number of days in a work week except that assignments of less than five days per week will not be established. (4) Assigned engineers who perform service in excess of five days in their work week will be paid therefore at one and one half times the pro rata rate except where rest days are being accumulated and except as provided by Article 3.15. (5) An assignment of more than five days per week may be established when shifts in excess of five are not covered by spare engineers. (6) In the establishment of regular assignments, representatives of the Railway and of the engineers will co-operate in designating day or days off. (7) When service is required by the company on days off of regular assignments it may be performed by other regular assignments, by regular relief assignments, or by spare locomotive engineers when not protected in the foregoing manner.