The phrase "alternative duties" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to different tasks or responsibilities that can be assigned in place of the usual ones.
Example: "Due to the current situation, employees may be asked to take on alternative duties to support the team."
Alternatives: "different responsibilities" or "substitute tasks".
Further, residents should be formally trained in handover skills and alternative duty hour models.
Yet he gave up flying -- and for months on end failed to show up for alternative military duty as he had promised, instead working on the hopeless campaign of a political neophyte running against one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill.
We now evaluate t r i for different communication protocols: CSP, CSP using B-MAC as an alternative low-duty-cycle scheme, and CSP using ARPEES [14] as an alternative cluster-based routing scheme.
(2) We also present an analysis of delay produced by the CSP and compare to the other approaches of the same category (CSP using B-MAC [13] as an alternative low-duty-cycle algorithm and the CSP using Adaptive Routing Protocol with Energy Efficiency and Event Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks (ARPEES) [14] as a routing strategy).
(He drives a Ford Explorer, but replaced the Firestone tires with Pirellis and replaced the factory-installed shock absorbers with a heavy-duty alternative).
It's hard to imagine the Supreme Court upholding nondefense conscription, but if civilian service were an alternative to military duty, the prospects would improve.
Roll over Sid, and tell Joe Strummer the news: whereas the kind of British musicians who attracted words like "alternative" were once duty-bound to affect a mixture of rage, debauchery and indolence, their modern heirs are a terrifyingly well-adjusted bunch.
Clarizen has been selling its solution for a year now with the bulk of its customer base considering it an alternative to heavy-duty enterprise solutions such as Clarity and Primavera.
With their bodies wrecked by years of physical abuse, some retirees see marijuana as a less harmful alternative to heavy-duty painkillers.
