SCHEDULE CHANGES AT VERIZON

Our office has received several calls questioning the company’s right to change work schedules in different work groups. For example,  in the outside forces Verizon has notified many, if not all  technicians that were scheduled Sunday and Monday, that they will be working Tuesday through Saturday next week and non-scheduled on Sunday and Monday because of the snow storm.  The company can do this according to the contract. The contract states in Article 25 section 2       " When the company assigns a Category l, II,III,A or B to work on a day on which no tour has previously been scheduled, the employee's scheduled work time on another day of the same normal week  may be reduced by a corresponding amount, provided  he is notified of the change prior to 5:00pm of the second calendar day preceding the day of the added assignment or the day of the decreased assignment whichever is earlier: We think they are overreacting.  Twenty inches of snow in February is the same as twenty inches of snow in December.