Shift Preference Selection Clause Samples

Shift Preference Selection. (a) The Employer shall have the right to freely determine, establish and modify scheduling and manpower requirements, including but not limited to, number of shifts, starting and quitting time for each shift, and manpower requirements for each shift, including the complement of specialized trained personnel. (b) For purposes of this Section, an employee’s normal “tour of duty” shall be defined as a period of 160 hours of work in a period of twenty-eight (28) consecutive days. No employee shall be eligible to apply for a shift preference until they have completed their probationary period. Shift preference requests will be granted by the Employer if there is an employee with less seniority working on the requested shift in the same classification subject to the conditions set forth below. (c) Employees eligible to apply for a shift preference will not be permitted to displace probationary employees working on the requested shift or employees with less seniority on the requested shift who are undergoing specialized training other than normal duty or are on special assignment which necessitates their continuing work on the shift requested by the senior employee. (d) Shift preference selections shall be submitted twice annually, once in April for the first schedule period beginning in May and once in September for the first schedule period beginning in October. Shift preference requests shall be provided in writing to the applying employee’s immediate supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the period requested. Employees will be assigned based upon seniority and the needs of the Department to a single shift for the entire shift preference period; provided, however, that the Employer reserves the right to modify a shift assignment during the assignment period to meet changing workload or staffing requirements. Probationary employees will be “slotted into” the Employer’s schedule after seniority employees have been given an opportunity to select their preferred shift. (e) In placing shift preference requests into effect, the Employer will attempt to arrange such changes in a manner which will allow employees changing shifts to be off duty from the end of their old shift to the start of their new shift. The parties recognize, however, that this goal cannot always be accomplished. Accordingly, if implementation of a shift preference would require an employee to work sixteen (16) hours consecutively, the employee requesting the shift change will be the ind...