Agreement - Teamsters Local 399

5. Minimum Calls
(a) The minimum call is a guarantee of employment for the
number of hours of the minimum call indicated in the wage schedules.
(b) Employees shall hold themselves in readiness to serve the
Producer during the period of the minimum call and such additional time
as the Producer may require.
(c) Minimum calls for Daily Schedule employees are subject to
the provisions of Paragraph 13.
(d) Studio Minimum Call - Except as provided in Paragraph 7
and in the single-asterisked footnote to the wage schedules and in
subparagraph (f) below, there shall be a minimum daily call of eight (8)
hours with time and one-half (1½) after eight (8) hours on a given day
and time and one-half (1½) after forty (40) hours in a given week.
(e) *See Paragraphs 7, 8 and 35.
(f) A four (4) hour minimum call shall apply for any day on
which an employee, at the request of an individual Producer, reports for
safety training. A weekly “on call” employee who reports for safety
training shall be paid one-tenth of the weekly “on call” rate for each
such day.
6. Overtime
(a) All time and one-half, “not less than one and one-half,”
double time, Excessive Hour pay, pay for the sixth or seventh day
worked in the employee’s workweek and pay for holidays in excess of
the Regular Basic Hourly Rate are paid as overtime compensation and
shall not be compounded.
(b) Overtime paid on a daily basis shall be computed at the
Regular Basic Hourly Rate in effect when the overtime occurs.
(c) Overtime paid on a weekly basis shall be computed at the
mean Regular Basic Hourly Rate.
(d) Night premiums shall be included as a part of the Regular
Basic Hourly Rate in computing overtime.
(e) Meal delay penalties (Paragraph 18), pay for call-back
intervening time of less than four (4) hours (Paragraph 9) and
allowances for aerial flight work (Paragraph 46) shall be included as a
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