On the effective date of this Agreement, employees assigned to the Vancouver Conductor’s Extra Board will be assigned to work/rest cycles by the Carrier at the Carrier’s sole discretion. A work/rest cycle is defined as a predetermined number of consecutive working/available days (work cycle) followed by a number of consecutive rest days (rest cycle). A rest cycle is defined as a predetermined number of consecutive days during which an employee can be absent from work. The ratio of working/available days to rest days for this board shall be 7 work/available days to 3 rest days.

2. An employee who desires to lay off during his rest cycle must inform Crew Support of his desire to lay off and the duration of the layoff, not less than eight hours prior to the beginning of the employee's rest cycle or eight hours prior to the desired time off during the rest cycle.

3. An employee on this work/rest extra board that requests to lay off during his assigned rest window will be laid off from this work/rest extra board during his assigned rest cycle and automatically marked up upon expiration of his rest cycle or lay off time requested as required in Section 2 above. Rest cycles will begin at 7:00 a.m. or upon tie up from previous duty, whichever is later. Employees may return to service before the expiration of the rest cycle after expiration of 12 hours from the start of the rest cycle or tie up from last trip, whichever is later, if desired, by notifying Crew Support and marking up.

4. The computation of guarantee for a conductor who requests to be laid off during his rest cycle or tie up from previous duty will be governed by the existing extra board agreement at this location.

5. Layoffs that begin and end during an employee’s work cycle will be observed in 24-hour increments with the employee being automatically marked up upon expiration of the rest window or requested lay off, except as contained in Section 3 of this Agreement.

6. An employee who lays off completely within his assigned rest cycle(s) and stays marked up during his assigned work cycle, will not be considered to be in violation of any attendance guidelines or policies related to attendance then in effect, regardless of the number of weekend or total days absent. An employee who lays off for one day or less during his assigned work cycle will immediately trigger a 30-day "look forward" period during which that employee’s attendance will be monitored. If no other layoffs occur in the work cycle during the following 30-day period, the employee will maintain his position with respect to the attendance guidelines or attendance policies then in effect, as qualified above regardless of prior attendance. A subsequent lay off during the work cycle within the 30 day period will disqualify this employee from benefit of this provision and subject the employee to the then existing attendance guidelines or attendance policies for all absences, including those taken within the rest cycle. Currently, the employee would be treated as if in unassigned service. This provision is designed to allow for emergencies that arise from time to time.

7. Increases and decreases to the extra board will be once per week on a regular schedule. Adjustments will be made to ensure that an equal number of turns are available throughout the cycle.

8. Employees exercising displacement rights onto this extra board must displace the junior conductor and will assume the work/rest cycle of the employee or position to which they displace.

9. In recognition that this is a trial program, issues and grievances related to this Agreement should be immediately brought to the attention of the appropriate General Chairman. The subject matter of the issues and grievances will be handled in an expeditious manner with Labor Relations. Either party may call a review meeting to cover specific problems that may arise.

10. Employees who hold positions on this work/rest cycle extra board will be allowed to float single vacation days on any day of the rest cycle, regardless of the number of conductors on vacation at that time.

11. This Agreement is designed to provide scheduled time off for extra board employees and meet the needs of service without increasing the economic factors involved.

12. This Agreement may be cancelled by either party serving 10-days’ written notice on the other party.

13. This Agreement only modifies existing agreements to the extent set forth, and all other schedule rules, agreements and/or other rights remain in effect.

14. Any existing extra board rest cycle program agreement applicable to this extra board is cancelled simultaneously with the effective date of this Agreement.

15. When the number of employees assigned to this board falls below nine, it shall be the option of the Company, with 48 hours notice to the Organization, to temporarily suspend this Agreement. This will result in the temporary re-institution of the Agreement in place at the signing of this Agreement. Upon restoration of nine or greater employees to this board, the Company shall again reinstate this Agreement. Local Chairman will be notified in each case.