Job Sharing – Transportation Department Sample Clauses

Job Sharing – Transportation Department. The Transportation Department will consider creating Job Share situations where a driver or a bus assistant needs to work a reduced or limited number of hours for specific hardship reasons. A position that is capable of being split, as determined by the Director of Transportation, must first exist. Applications for Job Sharing shall be considered on the following basis: 1. The applicant(s) must identify/demonstrate a specific need for a Job Share. 2. The Job Share shall be for an identified specific period of time, but must be within a given school year, and for a maximum of only one year at a time. A job share can be requested at any time during the school year. 3. The terms of each Job Share shall be reduced to writing and the Department, the Union, and the Human Resources Department must concur with the terms. 4. The seniority date of a Job Share team shall be based on the seniority date of the least senior member. 5. A Job Share will be limited to forty (40) combined hours per week unless no other regular employee is available. In the event permanent additional hours are assigned (as provided in Section 8.11.4.), benefits will be adjusted accordingly. In the event the Job Share team is dissolved, any time beyond forty (40) hours will be redistributed in accordance with Section 8.11.2.1. 6. Bidding for permanent midday work by Job Share team members will be allowed. The Department retains the right to attach midday work to contiguous AM or PM routes. 7. Bidding rights for Job Share team members for extra work shall be limited to those times when no other regular driver is available, unless one of the partners waives bidding rights. In that case, the remaining partner shall be entitled to bid for the remainder of the team’s forty (40) hours from their own seniority slot. The waiving of bidding rights must be done in writing at the time of the request. For all bidding assignments during District winter break, midwinter and spring break, Job Share individuals can bid from their own seniority number. 8. Unless there is a hardship situation that is known to the Department, the Job Share participants will act as substitutes for each other. They will make substitute arrangements with each other and notify the dispatcher of any changes as early as possible, but not later than one (1) hour prior to bus departure time.