BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

**DIVISION OF HUMAN RESOURCES**

**Portland, Oregon**

**PERSONNEL LETTER NO. 610-6 (Revised) DATE:** March 22, 2002

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## SUBJECT: Compressed Work Schedule for TBL Real Time 

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**I. Purpose**

This Personnel Letter supplements Personnel Letter 610-5, Hours of Duty.
Specifically, it sets forth procedures for implementation of a
compressed work schedule for the Transmission Supply Unit, System
Operations Section, Transmission Services Group.

# 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 No. 610-6 (Revised),
dated June 26, 1998.

**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 Real-Time Schedulers in
the Transmission Supply Unit, System Operations Section, Transmission
Services Group.

# V. GENERAL PROVISION

This plan supplements provisions of the labor agreement between the
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and the American Federation of
Government Employees 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 3 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
Sunday to 0600 the following Sunday.

B.  **[Basic Work Requirement]{.underline}:** Basic work requirement
    means 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 two administrative workweeks.

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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.)

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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}:** Overtime hours are all hours an
    employee is ordered to work on any day in excess of his/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}:** Compensatory time off is
    time off in lieu of pay for irregular or occasional overtime work.

H.  **[Night Pay]{.underline}:** Night pay is paid for work performed
    between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

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/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/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 hours to 0600 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 premium pay for the period of
    1800 hours 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/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/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