ALL NJNU MEMBERS
ARTICLE XXXIII
(PG. 67)

Please be advised that according to Art. 33 of our contract with SBMC, management may reduce staff in the event that the needs of the unit should change. However there is a process that must be followed, as seen here:

1. They must first cancel any agency and/or traveler nurses within the affected unit.
2. They must cancel all prescheduled overtime within the affected unit.
3. They must cancel all per diem nurses within the affected unit.
4. They must cancel additional part-time shifts.
5. They must offer benefit time according to seniority within the affected unit.
6. They must cancel agency and traveler nurses within the affected division, and reassign bargaining unit staff nurses.
7. They must reduce staff by inverse seniority in the affected unit.

In other words, if staffing tries to get you to either stay or go home, otherwise called (FLEXING), be sure to ask them if they are laying you off, [this would constitute a lay-off or furlough as you are being sent home without pay]. If their response is yes, then they must begin to reduce staff in accordance to the collective bargaining agreement, Article 7 sect 5, and you have “bumping rights” under Article 7 section 7. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your local delegate or call the office at (973)992-6568.