00 - DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE CATEGORIES.
8.01 (a) All employees covered by this Collective Agreement shall fall into the following categories: Permanent Employees, Probationary Employees, and Casual In-Scope Employees.
00 - DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE CATEGORIES. The Company agrees that its intent in hiring casual and casual in-scope employees is not to circumvent, in any way, the hiring of permanent employees.
8.01 All employees covered by this Collective Agreement shall fall into the following categories: Permanent Employees, Probationary Employees, and Casual In-Scope Employees.
8.02 A permanent employee shall be an employee who has been hired on a permanent basis and who has successfully completed the probationary period.
8.03 A probationary employee is a new employee who is hired by the Company and who has not completed the probationary period.
(a) A casual employee is an employee whose assignment to work will not exceed six (6) months, except in cases where the casual employee is filling the position resultant from:
(i) an employee being on parental leave, short term disability, or long term disability, OR
(ii) the temporary transfer of another permanent employee to a position which was vacated due to parental leave, short term disability, or long term disability.
(b) The Company shall pay monthly to the Union work permit fees equal to the established dues of the Union for casual employees until the casual employee qualifies to become a Casual In-Scope employee.
(c) A casual employee will become a Casual In-Scope employee when he/she has worked more than 1,040 hours in any consecutive 12 month period as a Plant employee or worked more than 975 hours in any consecutive 12 month period as an Office employee. Application of the Collective Agreement to Casual In- Scope Employees shall be as specified in Letter of Understanding #2 attached to this Collective Agreement.
8.05 A part-time employee is a permanent employee who is regularly scheduled to work less than two thousand and eighty (2,080) hours per year in plant jobs or one thousand nine hundred and fifty (1,950) hours per year in office jobs and who has worked half the equivalent hours of the applicable probationary period outlined in Article 8.03.
