Question about NJA process. Cannot find information I need to see. - drn

Posted: Apr 22, 2013

I can find the policy about what to do if you have had 15 minutes of NJA. NJA instructions have been: If another job does not come up within 15 minutes, you can file an NJA slip through Remedy. But, if a job comes up within that 15-minute period, you are to do that job and the 15-minute wait time starts over again. -- In the first paragraph of the NJA policy. What most, if not everyone, have been told to do is to sign out whilst waiting for another job, and if a job comes up before the 15 minutes is up, sign in and do the job(s). I find no documentation of this procedure. Conundrum is, if you remain signed in while waiting for a job, you will be affecting your hourly line count adversely which could, in turn, inadvertently lead a good employee down the path of performance management and possible loss of their job. So, advice is to sign out. This signing in and out while waiting for a job can go on an entire shift with jobs trickling in prior to the 15-minute deadline, or, if one cannot financially afford to sign off for the day after 15-minutes and stays on until they have a full shift, i.e., signed in time, it can take 12 hours to get in 8 hours of work. In my opinion, if you are sitting there signed out and actively waiting for a job, you should be paid for that time; you should be signing out from production and signing in to work availability while waiting for a job. So, I am thinking that, since I have been signing in and waiting for a job and then signing in for a job, and have not been signing in to work availability, I am owed money for all the time I have sat and waited and not being paid for this time could be considered a violation of labor codes. Anyone agree with this analysis? Can anyone find a written policy regarding waiting for jobs and time card entries? Because I never thought of it at the time, I do not have any email stating to sign in and out. If I had not deleted that email, which I doubt I did, it would have been deleted during one of many company email clean outs.