Common use of Non-Consecutive Days Off Clause in Contracts

Non-Consecutive Days Off. If the Railway contends it is not practicable to grant two consecutive days off to a regularly assigned or regular relief engineer and that it is necessary to establish non-consecutive days off, representatives of the Railway and representatives of the engineers will confer and endeavour to agree upon the establishment of non-consecutive days off. If such representatives fail to agree, the Railway may nevertheless establish non-consecutive days off, subject to the right of the engineers to process the dispute as a grievance and in such proceedings the burden will be on the railway to prove that it was not practicable to grant two consecutive days off.

Non-Consecutive Days Off. If the Railway contends it is not practicable to grant two consecutive days off to a regularly assigned or regular relief engineer and that it is necessary to establish non-consecutive days off, representatives of the Railway and representatives of the engineers will confer and endeavour to agree upon the establishment of non-consecutive days off. If such representatives fail to agree, the Railway may nevertheless establish non-consecutive days off, subject to the right of the engineers to process the dispute as a grievance and in such proceedings the burden will be on the railway to prove that it was not practicable to grant two consecutive days off.. Regularly assigned engineers will be permitted to: