Contract Trivia: Work on a SDO

Congratulations to New York member Emma Brown, this week’s winner of our 2023 trivia contest and a $50 prize. Emma’s response was selected from several correct answers to last week’s question: at the start of each year, IAPE-represented employees assigned to four- or five-day workweeks each receive six personal days. (see Article VIII-A – Holidays, Section B.1 or Article VIII-B – Holidays Canadian Employees, Section B.1).

Several members also had the correct answer to our bonus question from last week: Employees hired after October 1 in any calendar year receive 1.5 personal days to use during the remainder of that year.

IAPE encourages members to use and enjoy all available personal time, but we recognize that, in a 24x7 media company, work will often be assigned to employees on their Scheduled Days Off. With that in mind, this week’s IAPE trivia question is:

If an overtime-exempt employee receives an assignment for work outside their home on a Scheduled Day Off, what is the maximum amount of compensation they are eligible to receive?

Think you know the answer? Email union@iape1096.org and let us know. Not sure? Scroll through our contract posted on the IAPE website to find the relevant section. Members in good standing* will have one week to find the answer within the current collective agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones, and email that answer back to us. Next Friday, one winner will be selected at random from all the correct responses, and that winning member will receive a $50 prize from IAPE.

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*The IAPE contract trivia question is a weekly contest for members of the IAPE/DJ bargaining unit in the United States and Canada, working under the terms of the collective agreement between Dow Jones & Company Inc. and the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE) TNG/CWA Local 1096, AFL-CIO,CLC, in effect from July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023. IAPE officers, IAPE directors, IAPE staff, fee-paying non-members and non-members in right-to-work states (or new employees not yet paying dues to IAPE) are not eligible for prizes. Contest period lasts through 11:59 PM Eastern Time each Thursday. On Friday, one winner will be selected from the previous week’s correct answers by a random drawing. Winners are limited to one gift card prize every thirty days.