BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

**HUMAN RESOURCES**

**Portland, Oregon**

**PERSONNEL LETTER NO. 610‑11 (Rev.) DATE:** March 22, 2002

SUBJECT: Compressed Work Schedule for PBL Duty Transmission Acquisition

Specialists

**I. PURPOSE**

This Personnel Letter sets forth procedures for implementation of a
compressed work schedule for the Generation Scheduling organization of
the Power Business Line.

## II. PURPOSE OF REVISION

This Personnel Letter is revised to include Designation of Workday for
Regularly Scheduled Night-Shift Work under plan characteristics for Time
Reporting. This issuance replaces Personnel Letter 610-11 (Rev.), dated
January 19, 1999.

III\. REFERENCES

5 U.S.C., Chapter 55, Subchapter V, Premium Pay

5 U.S.C., Chapter 61, Hours of Work

IV\. SCOPE

This Personnel Letter applies only to full-time employees in the
Generation Scheduling organization of the Power Business Line assigned
to duty transmission acquisition duties.

V. GENERAL PROVISION

This plan supplements provisions of the labor agreement between BPA and
the AFGE Local 928 and shall be consistent with any revisions made to
such labor agreement, and applicable laws and regulations.

**VI. BASIC CONDITIONS**

Employees rotate through three established work shifts that provide
coverage 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Shifts are 8 hours and 12
hours long; shift #1 is 0600 to 1800 hours; shift #2 is 1800 to 0600
hours; and, shift #3 is 0800 to 1630 hours. No lunch break is included
in shifts #1 and #2; shift #3 includes a 30‑minute lunch break.

VII\. PLAN CHARACTERISTICS

A. **[Administrative workweek]{.underline}:** For time and labor
reporting, the designated administrative workweek shall extend from 0600
hours Sunday to 0600 hours the following Sunday.

B.  **[Basic Work Requirement]{.underline}:** The number of hours,
    excluding overtime hours, an employee is required to work or to
    account for by charging leave. An employee\'s basic work requirement
    is 80 hours in a pay period. This work may be scheduled in fewer
    than 5 days in an administrative workweek or fewer than 10 days in 2
    administrative workweeks.

C.  **[Designation of Workday for Regularly Scheduled Night-Shift
    Work]{.underline}**: The night shift is scheduled to start on the
    day it is shown on the schedule. For example, a 12-hour shift that
    starts at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday is to be recorded as 12 hours worked
    on Saturday. (Note: In the example used, this does not affect the
    employee's entitlement to Sunday premium pay for the entire 12-hour
    shift worked on Saturday because a part of that shift is worked on
    the calendar day of Sunday.)

D.  **[Regularly Scheduled Administrative Workweek]{.underline}:** For a
    given employee, the rotating tours of duty to which the employee is
    assigned.

E.  **[Tour of Duty]{.underline}:** The tour of duty for employees under
    this program is the rotating shift assignments of affected
    employees. Management may, as appropriate due to operating needs,
    temporarily adjust the arrival and departure time of an employee\'s
    scheduled duty shift. **Credit hours may neither be earned nor
    used**.

F.  **[Overtime Work]{.underline}:** All hours an employee is ordered to
    work on any day in excess of his or her compressed schedule.
    **Regularly scheduled tour of duty hours, including 12‑hour shifts,
    worked by an employee are not overtime**.

G.  [**Compensatory Time** **Off**]{.underline}**:** Time off in lieu of
    pay for irregular or occasional overtime work.

H.  **[Night Pay]{.underline}:** Night pay is paid for work performed
    between 1800 and 0600 hours.

I.  **[Holidays]{.underline}:** An employee who is relieved or prevented
    from working on a day designated as a holiday (or an \"in lieu of\"
    holiday) is entitled to pay for the number of hours he or she
    normally would have been scheduled to work that day.

For an employee whose work shift covers portions of 2 calendar days, the
designated holiday (or the \"in lieu of\" holiday) is based on the
employee\'s work shift that commences on such holiday. (See example
below under "Holiday Premium Pay.")

J.  **[Holidays Falling on Non‑Workdays]{.underline}:** When a holiday
    falls on a scheduled non‑workday for an employee, the workday
    immediately before that scheduled non‑workday is designated as the
    \"in lieu of\" holiday.

K.  **[Holiday Premium Pay]{.underline}:** An employee who performs
    non‑overtime work on a holiday (or a day designated as the \"in lieu
    of\" holiday) is entitled to basic pay plus premium pay equal to his
    or her rate of basic pay for that holiday work. Holiday premium pay
    is limited to the number of hours normally scheduled to be worked on
    that day. Additional ordered or authorized work on that day is
    compensable as overtime.

For an employee whose work shift covers portions of 2 calendar days, the
designated holiday (or the \"in lieu of\" holiday) is based on the
employee\'s work shift that commences on such holiday. (For example, if
an employee is scheduled to work, and does actually work, a shift from
1800 to 0600 hours on both July 4 and July 5, the entire work shift
beginning on July 4 is considered the holiday and the employee would
receive 12 hours of holiday pay for the period of 1800 to 0600 hours
that began on July 4.)

L.  **[Sunday Pay]{.underline}:** An employee who performs non‑overtime
    work during a period of scheduled duty, a part of which is performed
    on Sunday, is entitled to Sunday pay for his or her entire period of
    duty on that day.

M.  **[Absence from Work]{.underline}:** Time off during an employee\'s
    basic work requirement must be charged to the appropriate leave
    category unless he or she is granted compensatory time off or an
    excused absence.

N.  **[Training, Travel, Court Leave, Military Leave,
    Etc.]{.underline}:** Employees shall be assigned to 8‑hour day
    shifts, as appropriate, when they are engaged in authorized
    activities that take them away from their regular work.

Godfrey C. Beckett

Manager, Human Resources, Diversity, and EEO Services