Captain Karen Humphrey has been developing the monthly work schedule since about 1988. She generally posted a working draft of the next month's schedule about the 15 th of the month. Where there are vacancies in the schedule due to vacations, school or other unavailability, these vacancies are filled Page 2 MA-9881 by Staff Filler positions, i.e. a certain number of corrections officers who fill in for vacant shifts. If there are still vacancies that need to be filled, then employes are held over from a preceding shift four hours and employes from the next shift are required to come in early four hours prior to the start of their shift. These are forced extensions.
Overtime is designated by an asterisk after the shift designation in the employe's schedule.
The employes forced would be rotated by seniority each month starting with the most senior. After the draft schedule was posted, Officer Fayerweather volunteered to work early on December 3 and 4, 1996. No fillers were available and no off-duty officers signed up for these days, so someone had to be forced unless there was a volunteer. 2 Fayerweather has less seniority than Klatt or Mikla. The grievances were denied and appealed to the instant arbitration.