Common use of Trade Requirements Clause in Contracts

Trade Requirements. a. Hours worked or traded as a result of trades will not change a bargaining unit employee’s status from part time to full time or full time to part time. b. Bargaining unit employees may not give or receive payment or anything of value directly or indirectly for trading. c. Bargaining unit employees may work up to, as a result of a shift trade, (16) hours in a twenty-four (24) hour period, excluding meal periods, and must allow seven (7) hours of rest between shifts following back to back shifts. NOTE: Management may disapprove such trade for any bargaining unit employe e where Management believes that the bargaining unit employee’s effectiveness, safety, or job performance would be adversely affected. d. Bargaining unit employees are not permitted to reduce their scheduled work hours by more than a net forty (40) percent of their regularly scheduled work hours each fiscal quarter (i.e., October through December, January through March, April through June, July through September) as the result of one-way shift trades. e. Bargaining unit employees may not trade an approved trade. Once management approves a shift trade request, modifications to the shift trade are not permitted. If affected employees want to change the approved shift trade, they must cancel the approved shift trade and submit a new shift trade request consistent with the requirements of this Article.