2501-S2 AMH GREE SILV 184

2SHB 2501 - H AMD 1135

By Representative Green

WITHDRAWN 02/14/2012

    On page 3, beginning on line 34, after "time" strike all material through "shortages" on line 37 and insert "that the employee voluntarily agreed to work.  However, the employee's total shift, including a regularly scheduled shift and a shift worked as a result of on-call time, but not including meal and rest breaks, may not exceed sixteen hours"

EFFECT:   Limits the prescheduled on-call time exception to mandatory overtime to prescheduled on-call time the employee voluntarily agreed to work.  Provides that an employee's total shift (including a regularly scheduled shift and a shift worked as a result of on-call time) may not exceed 16 hours, not including meal and rest breaks.

Strikes language limiting the use of prescheduled on-call time to immediate and unanticipated patient care emergencies and prohibiting the use of prescheduled on-call time for filling chronic or foreseeable staff shortages. 

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