![]() ![]() Then you have 10-hour shifts, 4 days a week. Either way, unless you have a surplus of labor in dispatch, someone has to cover the OT. If someone on days calls in sick, do you have someone on nights stay over for 16 or do you keep people on their days off on-call. The PROBLEM with 12's is how do you cover the sick time. You can then do rotating days off, where you get one weekend off every two-week period (m-t work, w-th off, f-s-s work, then opposite) or you have the same three days off every week with one extra day every other week (S-m-t off with every other Sat off.) The former gives everyone a weekend off but hurts your senior people, and the latter gives seniority a little control over their own fate but everyone gets 3 to 4 days off each week, and every other saturday or whatever day you choose to be your flip-flop day. With 12 hour shifts, if you have 4 platoons consisting of 2 day shift platoons and 2 night shift ones, you have 3 on at all times. If someone calls in sick, you have an extra. If you have 12 dispatchers, and want a minimum of 2 on 3 8-hour shifts, that means four on each shift where you normally have 3 on and 1 on a day off each day. I was always a little resistant if we had any staffing problems, and we always did and who doesn't, right? When I used to be involved with dispatch, I got a lot of requests to go to 12 hour shifts for the additional days off. ![]()
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