Pull Procedure Clause Samples

Pull Procedure. When a pull is necessary, the following procedures shall be followed: 1. Volunteers solicited first. 2. If insufficient volunteers are obtained, employees from a designated unit will be assigned (“pulled”) on a rotation basis, starting with the low senior, as equally as possible among the employees in the affected unit. Employees who were mandated to work extra hours shall not be pulled during the extra hours. 3. A non-telemetry trained nurse shall not be pulled to a telemetry unit. 4. If a specific skill is required and the employee up for rotation does not possess the skill, the next employee up the rotation may be assigned and it shall count as her/his rotation. 5. If a Temporary Relief Employee or Agency Nurse is assigned to a designated unit, the Temporary Relief Employee or Agency Nurse will be reassigned or cancelled before a bargaining unit employee is reassigned to another unit. 6. A bargaining unit employee, scheduled at the employer’s request to work on her/his designated unit on a given day as extra time above his/her schedule may be pulled to a sister unit if it is that employee’s rotation. That pull will count towards the employee’s turn in the rotation. 7. Except in unforeseen emergencies, a bargaining unit employee, scheduled at the Employer’s request to work on her/his designated unit on a given day as extra time above his/her schedule, will not be reassigned to a non-sister unit unless he/she volunteers to be reassigned. The employee will be cancelled for that day before anyone is reassigned from that unit. The non-sister unit pull penalty shall apply. 8. An employee will not be pulled to another unit or to the other campus without appropriate orientation and/or training which shall consist of at least one-half (1/2) shift orientation to the unit, if the RN has not worked on the unit. The orientation and/or training shall be in addition to the RNs ability to request a written shift routine. 9. RNs pulled to other areas/campus shall be given a patient assignment within the comfort skill level he/she possesses. If the RN is given an assignment outside of his/her comfort skill level, he/she shall immediately contact the Contact Nurse. If the Contact Nurse does not adjust the assignment, the RN shall contact the next level supervisor in the chain of command who shall immediately assess the assignment and assist the contact nurse in making the appropriate changes. 10. When an employee is reassigned, patient care assignments will be based on kn...