Common use of Work Allocation Issues Clause in Contracts

Work Allocation Issues. The Company reserves the right to train up to a maximum of forty (40) gas service and construction employees, including Gas Crew Leaders and Journeymen Fitter/Welders (Certified) in each division to perform any gas service and construction work. The Company, however, will determine how many employees in each location will be trained to perform both service and construction work. The Company will seek volunteers by classification seniority at each location and, if necessary, force in reverse seniority order. Any employees selected whom the Company later determines are unable to perform the work will be returned to their former positions without loss of seniority, as provided in Article VIII, Section 17.5, subject, however, to the grievance arbitration procedure. Upon completion of the required Operator qualified training, employees qualified to perform both gas service and construction work will be classified as a Gas Troubleman Journeyman. The hourly rate of pay for a Gas Troubleman will be $0.50 above the rate of pay for the Gas Service Journeyman, the Gas Construction Journeyman, the Gas Crew Leader, and/or the Journeyman Fitter/Welder (Certified) classifications. New employees hired into the Gas Department or current employees bidding into the Gas Department to perform service or construction work will be classified as a Gas Troubleman upon completing the necessary training. Gas Troubleman may be assigned to perform any/all gas work. All Gas Troubleman will be properly trained and OQ qualified to perform such work. Following are examples of duties which may be performed by any Gas Troubleman or any qualified employee holding classifications in the Gas Construction group or Gas Service Shop group. A. Gas Construction Journeymen shall install/remove gas meter sets of any size. Installation will include any associated pipe work and regulator installation/removal. (This amends Article IX, Section 16, by expanding the work a Gas Construction Journeyman can perform and expands Section 20 by expanding the work these classification employees can perform.) B. Gas Service Journeymen may perform Gas Construction Journeymen duties and perform work on Gas Construction Crews after properly trained and OQ qualified. (This expands the duties a Gas Service Journeyman may perform to assist Gas Construction Journeyman.) C. All Gas Journeymen may be utilized to perform leak survey work/leak investigations. This would include inside leak investigations. All Gas Journeymen will be properly trained and OQ qualified to perform this work. (This removes the limitations that only a Gas Construction Journeyman can perform these duties.)