1. The Company may schedule twelve (12) hour shifts for where stem times are excessive and work can be carried out more efficiently with the use of twelve (12) hour shifts.
   
   
2. Employees may select such twelve (12) hour shifts based on seniority and where there are insufficient employees volunteering for such shifts, the Company shall schedule junior employees for this work.
   
   
3. The following practices shall exist regarding twelve (12) hour shifts:
   
   
   1. Where an employee is scheduled to work a twelve (12) hour shift, he/she shall receive two (2) paid fifteen (15) minute rest periods and one (1) paid thirty (30) minute meal period.
      
      
   2. All time worked in excess of the twelve (12) hour shift shall be paid for at the rate of double (2x) time for all hours.
      
      
   3. If a holiday is observed on an employee’s day off, the employee will have the option of receiving twelve (12) hours’ pay or a day off with pay at a time mutually agreed between the Company and the employee.
      
      
   4. If a holiday is observed on an employee’s scheduled workday and the employee does not work on the holiday, the employee will receive twelve (12) hours’ pay at the employee’s regular rate of pay.
      
      
   5. An employee who is scheduled to work on a twelve (12) hour shift and who is absent for reasons for jury duty, sick leave (subject to the restrictions of Article V111) bereavement leave, statutory holidays or negotiations shall be compensated for twelve (12) hours of lost pay at his/her regular hourly rate of pay. For the purposes of sick leave cash out and paid time off for unused sick leave credits, employees who work twelve (12) hour shifts shall have their sick leave bank exhausted after forty-eight (48) hours has been paid or taken as compensation for sick time off.