Altered Hours. Where an altered work day is required the Employer shall make every reasonable effort to consider all possible options such as vacancies, Compressed Work Week and flextime to minimize the impact on existing employees in the affected classifications. If it is necessary to amend the employees hours of work, first volunteers will be sought. If no volunteers are available, the least senior employee(s) will be assigned the work. The employee(s) shall be given the option of: a) alternating the start time of the day or b) working a longer day to a maximum of ten hours per day and the hours in excess of seven hours per day are accumulated and banked at straight time. This time shall be taken at a mutually satisfactory time, but in any event, within ninety days of the occurrence. Employees can choose to have a minimum of a one half hour unpaid meal period. If the Employer determines that all employees must participate in the changed hours situation, work assignments will be offered by seniority. Provisions of Article 18.02 apply.
Altered Hours. With the understandingthat any five consecutive days, Monday to Sunday inclusive, of eight consecutive hours, excluding lunch periods, shall constitute a work week, the Corporation reserves the right to alter normal hours and days but shall be requiredto pay premium time at the following rates for all time worked outside the defined normal hours or days. Monday through Friday Double Time Saturday, Sunday, Holidays Double Time When employees are assigned to work altered hours for a period of five (5) consecutive days or more, the premium rate to be paid Monday through Friday will be Time and One Half will be notifiedbefore the beginning of work that their schedule has been altered in accordance with this article. The above rules for altered hours shall not apply to one day situations. One day situations will be dealt with in context with the overtime and rest period clauses. In no case will an employee be required to revert back to normal hours without hours rest and any time lost to accommodate this rest period shall be paid time. The Corporation agrees to provide as much notice as possible prior to altering hours.
Altered Hours i) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article, normal hours may be altered, within the limits of the work week, by the mutual agreement of the Parties to the Agreement. In such cases, the altered hours shall be considered as normal.
ii) In addition, local management may propose an altered hours arrangement to groups of employees which, if accepted by a majority of the employees in the group shall be considered their normal hours of work. Any agreement must include the following conditions: ⚫ the process for scheduling hours of work will be confirmed in a letter of agreement which will contain a provision allowing either local management or the employees in the group (by majority vote) to revert to normal hours as defined in the Agreement with thirty (30) days’ notice ⚫ local management may, by notice to the employees no later than noon on the Thursday prior to the week in question, alter the normal hours of work within the limits of a work week (i.e., excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays) ⚫ the normal hours in a day may be extended to twelve (12) hours before overtime premiums (at prevailing overtime rates) apply to those hours in excess of twelve hours ⚫ an employee who has completed their normal work week (40 hours or 36.25 hours, excluding hours paid at overtime rates), will leave work or, if directed to continue working, will be paid prevailing overtime rates for the remainder of the time worked in that week.
Altered Hours. Where an altered work day is required, the Employer shall make every reasonable effort to consider all possible options such as vacancies, Compressed Work Week and flextime to minimize the impact on existing employees in the affected classifications. If it is necessary to amend the employees’ hours of work, first volunteers will be sought. If no volunteers are available, the least senior employee(s) will be assigned the work. The employee(s) shall be given the option of: a) alternating the start time of the day or b) working a longer day to a maximum of ten hours per day and the hours in excess of seven hours per day are accumulated and banked at straight time. This time shall be taken at a mutually satisfactory time, but in any event, within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the occurrence. Employees can choose to have a minimum of a one half hour unpaid meal period.
i) working on the employee’s regular scheduled day off, or
ii) working half (½) of a regularly scheduled workday with longer days during the remainder of the week for a specified period of time.
