Requirement to Float Clause Samples

Requirement to Float. 1. If other staffing needs exist in the hospital and the unit on which an employee picked up an extra shift has an extra employee, then an employee from that unit shall float to the unit that is short (provided that to do so is consistent with minimum competencies and the other provisions of this contract). Which employee will float shall be determined pursuant to the unit’s usual mechanism of floating – i.e., the person who picked up the extra shift shall only be required to float if it is that person’s turn according to the unit’s normal floating procedures. 2. If no other staffing needs exist in the hospital and the unit on which an employee picked up an extra shift has an extra employee, then the employee who picked up the shift in the long, short, or immediate term processes will be given first choice to go home, which will be without pay. If he/she wants to stay, the other employees on the unit will be given the opportunity to go home with the use of available benefit time.