Annual Relief & Sick Relief Positions being merged
Was informed at our depot today that all annual relief and sick relief positions are going to be merged together as per the new contract signing. When asked how this would change what routes we pick to cover (ie. annual relief picks blocks of 4 weeks at a time from the vacation calendar, sick relief chooses daily from the staffing board) no answer was provided and management said they haven’t figured it out yet.
Does anyone have any insight or answers on this will work moving forward? I’m guessing starting from the top they will ask the most senior person if they want to cover a route for a week or choose daily, and then work their way down the list. If so, it’s a much more time-consuming way of doing things as opposed to having two separate relief groups (which leads me to believe there is another reason to doing this that we aren’t aware of yet).