Formatting § 8.2 NA2022

Section 8.2 Work Schedules

A The employee's service week shall be a calendar week beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and ending at 12 midnight the following Friday. B The employee's service day is the calendar day on which the ma- jority of work is scheduled. Where the work schedule is distrib- uted evenly over two calendar days, the service day is the calen- dar day on which such work schedule begins. C The employee's normal work week is five (5) service days, each consisting of eight (8) hours, within ten (10) consecutive hours, except as provided in Section 8.1 of this Article. As far as prac- ticable the five days shall be consecutive days within the service week. D In postal installations which have 200 or more work years of employment in the regular work force, career employees in mail processing shall have consecutive scheduled days off, unless otherwise agreed to by the parties at the local level. Article 8.2 17 number of career employees in that installation covered by this Agree- ment. In smaller installations with part-time flexible employees, the Employer shall maximize the number of full-time employees and minimize the num- ber of part-time employees who have no fixed work schedules. A part- time flexible employee working eight (8) hours within ten (10), on the same five (5) days each week over a six-month period will demonstrate the need for converting the assignment to a full-ti