Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Ya man, take that up with our union. It's our own crappy rules wrt to PBS line generation. If you dig in the PWA (12.M.5) you'll see that in many categories, for reserve, each day is only required to be available as an X-day once! That means the number 2 guy on reserve could be forced onto coverage...and in extreme situations, so could the number one reserve bidder. For line holders the highest it can go is 75% (50% during holiday months) of the total line holders for the month. These won't change until people stop taking the "reserve is a choice" mentality wrt to bettering our reserve work rules. As a home based, chronic reserve bidder, I'm with you both on this.
This is worth repeating.
The company also has complete freedom to max out coverage every month regardless of need. Said another way, they can force all 75% of reserves onto days that are already over staffed. So you'll look at the reserve numbers and see huge over staffing on days marked as needing coverage by the company.
And with how difficult it is to manipulate RSV days, you can't easily move off those over staffed days.
Reserve rules certainly need some work.