New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter I - Waterfront Commission Of New York Harbor › Part 7 - Hiring Regulations For Registrants › General Provisions › Section 7.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Part:
(a) Regular employees shall mean employees
				  who, as individuals, are entitled to receive first priority of employment at a
				  particular pier or waterfront terminal or with a particular employer.
(b) Supervisory employees shall mean
				  employees who lead, manage and/or supervise other employees, and shall include
				  but are not limited to foremen, assistant foremen, hatch foremen (also known as
				  hatch bosses), dock foremen, stevedore foremen and gangwaymen. Supervisory
				  employees at passenger ship terminals shall include clerk/checker dock bosses,
				  chief clerks, baggage masters and/or those who oversee and direct checkers in
				  the accounting and positioning of baggage for loading and/or
				  discharge.
(c) Gang shall mean a
				  group of longshoremen constituted into a working unit.
(d) Regular gang shall mean a gang which is
				  entitled to receive first priority of employment at a particular pier or
				  waterfront terminal.
(e)
				  Regular-extra gang shall mean a gang which is entitled to receive employment at
				  a particular pier or waterfront terminal after available regular gangs have
				  been employed.
(f) Extra gang shall
				  mean a regular or regular-extra gang not employed on a particular day by the
				  employer listing it as a regular or regular-extra gang.
(g) Voluntary gang shall mean a gang
				  established by the commission on its own initiative, where, in its opinion,
				  such action will further the purposes of the Act.
(h) Section shall mean a geographical
				  division of the port.
(i) Borough
				  or area shall mean a geographical division of the port consisting of one or
				  more sections.
(j) New pier shall
				  mean any pier or terminal which has not regularly been in operation for the
				  movement of waterborne freight within three calendar years prior to its
				  opening.
(k) Reactivated pier shall
				  mean any pier or terminal which has been in operation for the movement of
				  waterborne freight within three calendar years of its reopening, including a
				  newly constructed pier or terminal which has replaced one or more piers or
				  terminals.
(l) Telecommunications
				  system controller (TSC) shall mean a natural person, who is employed by the New
				  York Shipping Association, Inc. and the International Longshoremen's
				  Association, or by a joint board of the New York Shipping Association, Inc. and
				  the International Longshoremen's Association, and who participates in the
				  operation of the telecommunications hiring system (THS).
(m) Workday shall mean Monday through Sunday,
				  for the purposes of the hiring procedures.
(n) Regular working day shall mean Monday
				  through Friday (or Monday through Saturday, if hiring procedures are
				  implemented which include Saturday as a "regular work day" in accordance with
				  section 7.19 of this Part), exclusive of
				  holidays, for the purpose of the hiring procedures.