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Question:

The new contract says that full-time regular clerks on the Overtime Desired List will be given priority scheduling for overtime work over casuals doing overtime work. Is this on a day-by-day basis? How will we monitor the overtime that casuals work? How will it work for penalty pay?

Benito, San Antonio Alamo Area Local

President Burrus:

In accordance with the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, overtime must be assigned to employees on the OTDL who are qualified and available before casuals working overtime are utilized. The day-to-day assignment of overtime is subject to specific provisions in Local Memorandums of Understanding (LMOUs), so I refer you to your Local Agreement to determine which employees should be assigned.

The obligation to use the OTDL applies to all overtime hours. Casuals do not enter an overtime status until they have worked 40 hours in a service week, so they may be assigned to work in excess of eight hours on a given day (provided they are not in an overtime status) prior to use of employees on the OTDL.

Penalty overtime is overtime and the negotiators did not distinguish between the pay rates. Therefore, management is required to select employees from the OTDL for penalty overtime assignments prior to the assignment of casuals working overtime.

Feb. 7, 2007

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