2501-S2 AMH GREE SILV 187

2SHB 2501 - H AMD 1149

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WITHDRAWN 02/14/2012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, subject to the following limitations:

(i) The employer may only use prescheduled on-call time for immediate and unanticipated patient care emergencies and may not use prescheduled on-call time to fill chronic or foreseeable staff shortages; and

(ii) 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 within a twenty-four hour period"

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 in a 24-hour period, not including meal and rest breaks.

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