TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
BY AND BETWEEN
BRITISH AIRWAYS
AND
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS
ENGINEERING
(NOTE: This document contains only those articles of the
Collective Bargaining Agreement that were amended)
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Shift Work and Overtime Compensation Policies in the Company, Lecture notes of Mechanics
The company's policies regarding shift hours, premium pay, and overtime for employees attending courses, lunch periods, and working hours. It includes details on shift premiums, lunch periods, personal clean-up time, sick time, vacation accruals, and overtime rates for regular and holiday work.
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- How does the company handle lunch periods for employees?
- What are the overtime rates for regular and holiday work?
- How does the company calculate overtime payments on a daily basis?
- What are the rules for sick time and vacation accruals for employees working ten-hour shifts?
- What shift premiums does the company offer for different shift hours?
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TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
BY AND BETWEEN
BRITISH AIRWAYS
AND
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS
ENGINEERING
(NOTE: This document contains only those articles of the
Collective Bargaining Agreement that were amended)
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
BY AND BETWEEN
BRITISH AIRWAYS
AND
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF MACHINISTS
The following Agreement is hereby entered into this (enter DOR) September 12 th^ 2014 and is in full and final settlement of all items covering contract proposals submitted by and between BRITISH AIRWAYS and THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS covering the classifications of:
MAINTENANCE REPRESENTATIVE MECHANIC STOCK CLERK
ARTICLE II SCOPE OF AGREEMENT
(a) The Company hereby recognizes the Union as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all classifications covered by this Agreement working within the continental limits of the United States and its possessions.
(b) All work performed by the Company, including work of all classifications covered by this Agreement as described in the classification and work requirements in Article IV of this Agreement, is recognized as coming within the jurisdiction of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and is covered by this Agreement.
The Company agrees that the making, assembling, erecting, dismantling and repairing of all machinery, mechanical equipment, engines and motors of all descriptions including all work involved in dismantling, overhauling, repairing, fabrication, assembling, welding and erecting all parts of airplanes, airplane engines, radio equipment, electrical systems, heating systems, hydraulic systems and machine tool work in connection therewith, including all maintenance, construction and inspection work in and around all shops, hangars, and buildings, and including the servicing, cleaning and polishing of aircraft parts thereof, the servicing and handling of all ground equipment performed in and about Company shops, Maintenance Bases, Overhaul Bases, Line Service Stations or wherever performed, is recognized as coming within the jurisdiction of the International Association of Machinists, and is covered by this Agreement. It is understood that the Company reserves the right to continue contracting out work historically contracted out and to return to the manufacturer parts and sub-assemblies for repair or replacement that cannot be repaired on the property due to lack of equipment or because of warranties.
There will be no obligation to offer any positions to part-time staff hired after September 6, 1990 or full-time staff hired after the date of signing of this Agreement (March 15, 1994). These staff will follow the appropriate provisions of Article VIII and Article XX.
(d) In the performance of their duties, employees covered by this Agreement shall be governed by Company rules, regulations and orders issued by properly designated authorities of the Company, providing such rules, regulations, and orders are not in conflict with the terms and conditions embodied in this Agreement. The Company will, after the signing of this Agreement, cause to be compiled and make easily available to each present and all new employees the presently applicable conduct rules and regulations, and no such new rules or regulations will be considered effective until copies have been furnished to the Local Committee (the General Chairman, Chairman of Shop Stewards and all Chief Shop Stewards) and conspicuously posted in the working areas at least one week prior to effective date. In cases where emergency changes are necessary, the Company will notify the committee and such changes will be posted and become effective immediately thereafter.
(e) The right to hire; promote; discharge for cause; and to maintain efficiency of employees, is the sole responsibility of the Company except that employees will not be discriminated against because of Union membership or activities. In addition, it is understood and agreed that the routes to be flown; the equipment to be used; the location of plants; hangars, facilities, stations and offices; the scheduling of airplanes; the scheduling of overhauling, repair and servicing of equipment; the methods to be followed in the overhaul, repair and servicing of airplanes, are the sole and exclusive function and responsibility of the Company; provided the actions of the Company hereunder shall not conflict with the terms of this Agreement. It is the sole responsibility of management to staff areas covered by this agreement for the safe handling of aircraft.
(f) Subject to State and Federal law, as an equal employment opportunity/ affirmative action employer, British Airways does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their age, race, color, religion, national origin, sex or on any other basis prohibited by law. Furthermore, British Airways will not discriminate against any applicant or employee because he or she is physically handicapped, a disabled veteran, or a veteran of the Vietnam era, provided he or she is qualified and meets the requirements established by British Airways.
(g) If there is a manager on shift, and a qualified maintenance representative is not available, and there is an unplanned need to perform work that is covered by the engineering collective bargaining agreement, it shall not be deemed a violation of the agreement if he does so, provided the manager makes an attempt to cover the work with overtime. In cases where there is no maintenance representative on duty and there is an operational aircraft on the ground (AOG) situation, the manager may perform work covered by the collective bargaining agreement until a maintenance representative arrives at work so long as there has been an attempt to cover the work with overtime. This language is intended to keep the operation fluid and is not intended to eliminate overtime opportunities in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement. This language is not intended to infringe upon any provisions contained in Article XIX.
ARTICLE IV
CLASSIFICATION AND WORK REQUIREMENTS
The following applies to all classifications: It shall be an objective of employees covered under this agreement to be polite, courteous and project a professional attitude toward the public. All classifications that work in direct contact with the public are expected to maintain a high standard of appearance. Employees will be required to attend training courses provided by the Company relevant to their job description. Where possible, dates convenient to the employee and the Company will be scheduled. Employees will be responsible for familiarizing themselves with all Company rules and regulations pertaining to their duties governed by Article II (c).
All employees will participate in on-the-job training of fellow employees when required within their job description. This will not replace formal training.
All classifications will be required to drive Company vehicles.
All classifications can be required to carry out all and any functions that fall within their scope of Approvals, to support and maintain the operation.
All classifications can be used to complete all and any technical data entry, including but not limited to EWS. This includes entries generated regardless of origin.
MAINTENANCE REPRESENTATIVE The work of a Maintenance Representative shall consist of, but not limited to, instructing and directly supervising the work of mechanics and related personnel assigned to him, in regard to maintenance, overhaul servicing of aircraft, their components and accessories and ground equipment. In connection with this work, he may be required to be responsible for the administration of established policy and procedures. He will be required to hold current British Airways authorizations and comply with CAA Directives, and such authorization must be endorsed to cover the types of aircraft at the station or stations in question. He will in all cases be given reasonable time and the necessary training to secure such authorizations or extensions. He will certify all aircraft as required.
A Maintenance Representative will perform all the work required in the Mechanic classification. In addition, as a working member of the group he will be required to lead and direct the work of Mechanics. Inability to obtain clearance for taxiing because of health reasons will not be a bar to promotion to Maintenance Representative if the employee is otherwise qualified.
He may be required to taxi aircraft.
He will be required to fly with the aircraft between stations within his eight (8) hour shift for the purpose of carrying out Engineering duties at other stations as and when the need arises. In addition to the above duties, he will assume full supervisory control when detailed by a Station
The Company shall have the right to hire Temporary Mechanics for the purpose of relieving Mechanics while they are on license or approval courses. Temporary Mechanics shall not accrue seniority and the initial period of employment shall be for the normal 120-day probationary period which may be extended for additional 30-day periods to cover the duration of the course in question. These Temporary Mechanics shall not have any bidding rights to Permanent Mechanic vacancies which may arise during or after their employment. Temporary Mechanics will not be assigned supervisory positions.
All Mechanics wishing to undertake authorization courses will be given the opportunity in accordance with system seniority subject to operational requirements. Mechanics will be expected to use their authorizations to the fullest extent. In the absence of a Maintenance Representative and when requested by a Manager, authorized Mechanics will assume supervisory control and will be upgraded for the day to the Maintenance Representative payscale.
Mechanics will receive a once off payment of $1,000 per Aircraft Approval when they obtain full authorization.
STOCK CLER K A Stock Clerk will be required to undertake storekeeping duties which consist of routine stockroom work including receiving, shipping, checking, inspecting, classifying, issuing, maintaining an inventory, storing, warehousing, and the distribution of plane parts or any other related stock or material and the preparation and maintenance of required records and reports.
All stores work will be integrated into the Mechanic and Maintenance Representative classifications who may undertake stores duties at any time. British Airways will maintain a minimum of three Stock Clerks at JFK. If, in the future, there is an operational change at JFK which affects the amount Stock room duties, the company will meet to discuss a reduction in the minimum number. This reduction will not affect apply to the twothree incumbent employees’ currently working in Stores. (At time of ratification)
ARTICLE V HOURS OF SERVICE
(a) The Company may utilize A scheduled shifts will consisting of eight (8) or ten (10) consecutive hours, which shall be inclusive of a thirty (30) minute meal period.s, except as otherwise specifically provided for herein. A workday will begin at the starting time of an employee's shift and extend for twenty-four (24) hours thereafter. The Company will not however force an employee to move to a ten (10) hour shift pattern and an eight (8) hour shift pattern may be maintained if chosen by the employee.
(b) An employee’s work week shall consist of five (5) or four (4) consecutive work days, followed by two (2) or three (3) consecutive rostered days off. The first day of the five (5) or four (4) consecutive work days shall begin his work week. Of the employees three (3) rostered days off,
the first two (2) of those RDO’s in the work week will be designated as their sixth (6th) day and the last RDO worked in the work week will be designated as their seventh (7th) day for the purposes of overtime premiums called for in Article VI.
Deviations from these practices may occur when a shift change is necessitated, or when an employee is assigned to local training courses. Any other vacancies will be filled by the senior employee volunteering for the vacancy.
If there are no volunteers, the most junior employee will be assigned. If a change in days off occurs because of the Company’s assigning an employee, he will be paid in accordance with Article VI, paragraphs (a) and (b). At JFK,
Wwhere it is not possible to maintain a consistent starting time for one work week, then it shall not be deemed a violation of the Agreement if two (2) shift starting times are established within said work week for any individual.
This will not exceed 20% of the maintenance representative classification and 20% of the mechanic classification at JFK with an allowable minimum number of two (2) maintenance representatives and one (1) mechanic.
At stations other than JFK, where it is not possible to maintain a consistent starting time for one work week, then it shall not be deemed a violation of this Agreement if two (2) shift starting times are established within said work week for any individual.
It is further agreed that any individual who works on two (2) different shifts within a given work week shall receive the highest shift premium payable for any shift so worked for the entire work week. (See, Letter of Agreement, regarding Shift Premium).
When an employee is assigned to an extended training course, deviation from his schedule will be as follows:
During the work week preceding the training period, days off will be split so that the second day off always falls on the Sunday immediately preceding the first day of training. The employee will revert to his normal shift and days off in the calendar week succeeding the training period. Example: 1600-2359 Shift Tuesday and Wednesday off:
M T W TH F S SU Week 1 X O X X X X O 1600- Training X X X X X O O 0800- Training X X X X X O O 0800- Week 4 X O O X X X X 1600-
The Company may change the shift hours of an employee for the purpose of attending a course lasting fewer than five days, provided that said employee receives at least 5 days’ notice, 12
after 09:00 and must be completed by 14:00.
Employees who, because of the requirements of the service, are requested to start their lunch period outside the "lunch window", will be allowed a lunch period of equal length as close to the regular lunch period as possible and paid for same at straight time rate in additional to their regular time compensation. No lunch will be paid if it falls outside the employee's regular shift, in accordance with Article VI (a).
Employees shall be permitted to select shifts according to seniority.
To expedite bidding, employees with sufficient seniority who wish to bid a constant shift may file their permanent bid with the Company and this will be entered automatically on all new shift rosters.
Bidding by employees to select shifts shall be done as rapidly as possible. In order to accomplish this, the bidding will be done in seniority order and it shall be the responsibility of the employee to place his bid on the designated day prior to the end of his shift. However, if an employee cannot bid on his designated date because he is on vacation, leave of absence, rostered off or otherwise off duty he will be given the option of choosing shifts in sequence of preference prior to his departure, after having been given the opportunity to view the roster being bid.
(e) Shift rosters shall be posted twice two times a year. Due to operational requirements, the Company may implement up to two (2) extra shift bids yearly. The Company must advise the Union thirty (30) days in advance if the additional shift bid option will be implemented. Prior to each shift bid, every employee will be given the opportunity to advise whether they want an eight (8) or ten (10) hour shift as described in Article V (a) above.
New Rosters shall be posted for one (1) week prior to bidding. The bidding shall be completed within two (2) weeks. The completed roster shall be posted for one (1) week before being implemented.
During the periods of schedule time changes due to daylight savings time changes in LHR, there shall be no requirement to run a shift re-bid, but the shifts will be automatically adjusted for the change periods. The change period will start on a Monday and end on a Sunday.
(f) The regular starting and stopping times for work shifts will be scheduled and posted at each work unit and shall not be changed with less than five (5) calendar days’ notice to any employee affected by such change.
(g) No employee will be called to work, or work or required to report to work for a shift of less than eight (8) or ten (10) hours (as per the shift bid) work or pay therefore, except on a rostered day off where they may be called in for a minimum of four (4) hours. The minimum of four (4) hours may be waived by mutual agreement between the employee and manager. This means
that the employee may agree to work an amount of hours less than the four (4) hour minimum.
An employee called to work or permitted to come to work when there is temporarily no work due to an Act of God or circumstances over which the Company has no control, including legal strikes involving personnel of the Company, shall receive a minimum of four (4) hours pay at the regular hourly rate, unless notified that there will be no work at the close of the last shift he worked, or sixteen (16) hours before the start of his regular work shift whichever period is the shorter.
(h) Except as otherwise provided herein, all employees will be granted a ten (10) minute rest period during the first half of their work shift and a ten (10) minute rest period during the second half of their work shift without loss of time, for the purpose of relaxation or smoking in designated areas.
Employees who are working in remote areas away from time clocks and/or lockers will be allowed fifteen (15) minutes as a personal clean-up period prior to quitting time.
(i) If the Company establishes a Maintenance Base, the Company and the Union will meet to agree upon the basis for determining shift schedules.
(j) When a ten (10) hour shift is bid by an employee, sick time and vacation accruals which are calculated in this Agreement for full time employees based on a five (5) day/ eight (8) hour per day workweek, shall be adjusted to an hour equivalent, and ten (10) hours shall be deducted for each day utilized or paid. For example, each week or day of vacation or sick time shall be considered four (4), ten (10) hour days, each day a ten (10) hour day, and shall deducted from their bank accordingly.
(k) Holiday pay shall be paid at the rate of eight (8) hours or ten (10) hours per day (as per the shift bid) when an employee works on that day.
Example: An Employee on a ten (10) hour shift works the Holiday and elects pay. The Employee is paid ten (10) hours at 1.5X (time and one half pay) their rate plus ten (10) hours straight time for the Holiday.
Example: An Employee on an eight (8) hour shift works the Holiday and elects pay. The Employee is paid eight (8) hours at 1.5X (time and one half pay) their rate plus eight (8) hours straight time for the Holiday.
Example: Employee elects to work and bank CTO. Employee banks eight (8) or ten (10) (as per the shift bid) at 1.5X their rate as long as their total CTO bank balance will not exceed twelve (12) weeks (four hundred eighty (480) hours for full-time employees).
(l) Holiday pay shall be paid at the rate of eight (8) hours or ten (10) hours per day only (as per the shift bid) where an employee does not work on that day.
(3) Retrospectively, at the end of the work week, an employee's pay is adjusted if they have not worked their full 40 hour scheduled week, by discounting the highest premium rate hours back to straight time first.
Scenario
Rostered Hours Overtime Worked
Time Code Hour Type Mon 9:00 - 17:00 17:00 - 21:00 WRK REG 8 hours, OT 1.5 4 hours Tue 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Wed 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Thu 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Fri 9:00 - 17:00 SICK SICK 8 hours Sat RDO 8:00 - 12:00 WRK OT 1.5 4 hours Sun RDO 8:00 - 12:00 WRK OT 2.0 4 hours Total hours worked 44 hours (32 straight time + 12 OT) Adjustment: OT 2.0 (4) hours OT 1.5 (4) hours OT 1.0 8 hours
Scenario
Rostered Hours Overtime Worked
Time Code Hour Type
Mon 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Tue 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Wed 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Thu 9:00 - 17:00 WRK REG 8 hours Fri 9:00 - 17:00 SICK SICK 8 hours Sat RDO 9:00 - 17:00 WRK OT 1.5 hours 8 hours Sun RDO 9:00 - 17:00 WRK OT 2.0 hours 8 hours Total hours worked 48 hours (32 straight time + 16 OT) Adjustment: OT 2.0 (8) hours OT 1.0 8 hours
Double time and one-half shall be paid for all work performed on the following legal holidays. New Year’s Day Martin Luther King Day Washington's Birthday Good Friday Memorial Day Independence Day
Labor Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day Employee’s Birthday
When an employee works on any of the above holidays and wishes to defer part of the compensation, he may be paid eight (8) hours at time and one-half and receive an additional eight (8) hours off at straight time pay to be taken in conjunction with his vacation in accordance with paragraph (n) of this Article.
It shall be the responsibility of the employee to advise the Company at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the holiday that he wishes to accrue this compensatory time off.
(c) Employees not required to work on a holiday shall be compensated for the day at straight time rate. Employees not required to work on a holiday because it falls on an employee’s rostered day off will receive eight (8) hours pay at straight time rate or at his option may elect eight (8) hours CTO up to a maximum CTO bank balance of four hundred eighty (480) hours. In the event of reduced shift coverage, employees will be given the opportunity to volunteer by shift seniority to work on the holiday.
An employee may observe his birthday on another day by mutual agreement. The employee must advise the Company at least five (5) days in advance of his birthday that he wishes to observe it at another time. In that event, earnings on his birthday shall be at the regular rate. In the event that the employee is required to work on the alternative day, earnings will be at the holiday rate. Arrangements for taking the alternative day shall be on the same basis as CTO as provided elsewhere in this Agreement. An employee whose birthday is on February 29 will celebrate their birthday on March 1 in a leap year. This should be managed in accordance with the provisions of Article VI (m/n).
(d) When it becomes necessary for employees to work overtime they shall not be laid off during the regular work schedule to equalize the time, and all overtime will be distributed as equally as possible among all qualified employees in each shop, hangar or facility.
All overtime shall be rotated among the employees qualified to perform the work necessitating the overtime as equitably as practicable. In furtherance of this principle, it is agreed that an appropriate chart will be kept on a current basis for each shift upon which all overtime worked or refused will be recorded, and such record will be made available to the employees, either by posting on the bulletin board or upon request. It is further understood that inequities in the number of overtime hours worked which may arise between individual employees as a result of permanent shifts, sick leave, vacations, or other absences from duty shall not be deemed a violation of this Agreement.
The minimum of four (4) hours may be waived by mutual agreement between the employee and the manager. This means that the employee may agree to work an numberamount of hours, which is less than the four (4) hour minimum.
The employee will be advised at the time of the call in that he/she is being called in for a four (4) overtime shift. If after arriving at work the employee is requested to stay longer than four hours, the decision to do so will be voluntary made by such employee. The employee is only obligated to stay for the four hours he/she was originally called in for.
If dDuring the call in process, the company will ask each employee if they are interested in the four (4) hour overtime shift. If the answer from the employee is “no”, the company would then ask that same employee if they would come in for more than four (4) hours. If the answer is still “no”, they would then move on to the next person. If the answer is “yes” to the more than four (4) hour query, the answer will be noted, and the next person will be called in succession. This will continue until 1) no one accepts either a four (4) hour or greater than four (4) hour shift, or
- an employee accepts the four (4) hour shift, or 3) no one accepts the four (4) hour shift but the first person who accepted the greater than four (4) hour offer in succession is awarded the overtime.decides it is going to increase the number of overtime hours being offered for work, they must go back to the beginning of the overtime list and start over. Example: The first four employees in low hour order are offered a four (4) hour RDO shift and they all decline. The fifth employee called in is offered a six (6) hour RDO and accepts. This is not allowed.
6 Employees on RDO Example
Example 1 OT List Four Hours? More than Four? Award Employee 1 No No x Employee 2 No No x Employee 3 No No x Employee 4 No No x Employee 5 No No x Employee 6 No No x Note- when no volunteers see Article IV, page 8 & 9, "Maintenance Representative", and Article IV, sub-paragraph e, page 16. Example 2 OT List Four Hours? More than Four? Award Employee 1 No No x Employee 2 No No x Employee 3 No No x Employee 4 No No x Employee 5 Yes x
Employee 6 x x x Example 3 OT List Four Hours? More than Four? Award Employee 1 No No x Employee 2 No No x Employee 3 No No x Employee 4 No Yes Employee 5 No Yes x Employee 6 No Yes x Example 4 OT List Four Hours? More than Four? Award Employee 1 No No x Employee 2 No Yes x Employee 3 No No x Employee 4 Yes No Employee 5 No No x Employee 6 No No x Note- In any case of the above example, there are only 7 possible phone calls being made as opposed to the possible 12 calls being made.
(n) Compensatory Time Off may be taken for all holidays worked up to a maximum CTO bank balance of four hundred eight (480) hours. Up to ten (10) CTO days may be taken in conjunction with vacation and the balance on an individual basis provided the employee can be released and that where possible fourteen days’ notice is given. Accrued CTO days must be taken by December 31st of the year following the year in which they were earned.
When bidding for vacation, and CTO days are to be included as part of the vacation, they must be bid as a single unit of five days. However, when the vacation is taken, if the employee has less than five CTO days earned, he may take the number of days that he has. Five (5) (one full week) of the ten (10) CTO days may be taken independent of their normal vacation bid. After normal vacation and seventh week vacation bids have taken place, staff may bid an independent CTO week from the remaining available weeks on the vacation roster.
By October 1st, staff must advise whether five (5) CTO days will be taken in conjunction with vacation as well as the number of vacation weeks to be used in the next vacation year.
(o) Upon thirty (30) days’ notice to his Section Head, an employee of certain Religious conviction, may celebrate a Religious Holiday or Holidays, as it may be, and charge the days against his accumulated CTO, earned by working other contract-covered Holidays. Such granting of days off will always be subject to the Company work requirements. Example: Employees of Jewish faith may choose to work Good Friday, Christmas, and New Year’s Day and prefer to take off Yom
ARTICLE VII
TRAVEL ON DUTY AWAY FROM BASE STATION
(a) When employees covered by this Agreement engage in emergency field service away from their base station to restore Company airplanes or equipment to service, they shall be paid for such work on the same basis as at their base station, with a minimum of eight (8) hours at straight time rate for each twenty-four (24) hour period. (Note: Base station is defined as the Airport at which the employee's normal workplace is located.
A rotation plan will be set up so that all employees will be given an equal opportunity to participate in emergency field service work. New employees will be debited with the same number of field service trips as the highest number shown on the list. Participants in emergency fieldwork will be required to be appropriately qualified
(b) All time spent in working and travelling or waiting in connection with emergency field service will be considered as time worked and paid for on the same basis provided however, that if travel is interrupted for any reason and the employee is released by an agent of the Company for a period of five (5) consecutive hours or more, he shall not be paid for time released but in no event shall any employee receive less than eight (8) hours' pay at straight time rate for any twenty-four (24) hour period while away from his base station; provided, however, that the Company may schedule him to take his regular days off without compensation except for the reasonable and necessary expense provided for in this Article. Employees required to work and travel shall be paid at the overtime rate applicable for all hours in excess of eight (8) hours of such combination of working, waiting, and travelling for the day in question.
(c) Upon completion of such emergency field work and training classes, an employee shall return to his home station in accordance with the orders received at the time he left his home station, or in accordance with the orders he receives from the person to whom he was ordered to report in the field, and shall be compensated for the return trip in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
(d) Where transportation, meals and lodgings are not provided by the Company, expenses will be allowed in accordance with the Company's subsistence rates. Upon application, an employee will be given an advance by the Company to cover his expenses while away from his base station. Within five (5) days after returning to home station, or at the close of each week in the event the employee is away for a period longer than one week, the employee shall submit an expense account in accordance with Company regulations, and if the employee has returned to his home station, it shall be accompanied by the balance of any expense money advanced but not accounted for on the expense account.
(e) Employees transferred from their home station to fill temporary vacancies shall be paid in accordance with paragraphs (b) of this Article for the time necessary to travel in connection with
such temporary transfer, and they shall receive necessary and reasonable expenses in accordance with the Company's subsistence rates.
(f) When an employee is away from his home station filling a temporary vacancy he shall be paid straight time and overtime in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement based on the shifts as scheduled at the location of the temporary vacancy, but in no event shall he receive less than eight (8) hours pay for each day. However, the Company may schedule him to take his regular days off without compensation, except for the reasonable and necessary expenses provided for in this Article.
(g) Employees called from home for emergency field service after completing their regular shift assignment, or on a regular day off, will be paid at the applicable rate after reporting to the engineering office at their base station. If the employee is to depart from another airport, they will be paid at the applicable rate from the time he would have arrived at their base station and for the applicable mileage rate from their base station to the departure airport. The employee will be reimbursed for the cost of the cab fare to/from his home to his base station up to sixty (60.00) dollars.
(g) If there is a manager on shift, and a qualified maintenance representative is not available, and there is an unplanned need to perform work that is covered by the engineering collective bargaining agreement, it shall not be deemed a violation of the agreement if he does so, provided the manager makes an attempt to cover the work with overtime. In cases where there is no maintenance representatives on duty and there is an operational aircraft on ground (AOG) situation, the manager may perform work covered by the collective bargaining agreement until a maintenance representative arrives at work so long as there has been an attempt to cover the work with overtime. This language is intended to keep the operation fluid and is not intended to eliminate overtime opportunities in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement. This language is not intended to infringe upon any provisions contained in Article XIX.
(h) When an employee covered by this Agreement receives a special assignment, which must be in writing, to attend training classes pertaining to his work, or to fulfill other special assignments not constituting emergency field service or the filling of temporary vacancies, he shall receive compensation at straight time rates for all time spent in travelling or waiting. However, in no event shall any employee receive less than eight (8) hours pay at straight time rate for any twenty-four (24) hour period while away from his base station; provided, however, that the Company may schedule him to take his regular days off without compensation except for the reasonable and necessary expense provided for in this Article. If such special assignment involves travelling after completion of his regular work for the day, he shall receive the applicable overtime rate for the first succeeding eight (8) hours of travelling and waiting.
(i) When the training course or assignment is in the same city or metropolitan area which is the employee's normal base, travel time will not be paid, but staff may claim mileage for any travel in excess of their journey from home to their normal work location.