Common use of Call-In Procedures Clause in Contracts

Call-In Procedures. (a) Casual work shall be offered on the basis of master list seniority in the following order, assuming the employee has given prior notice of availability according to the established procedure: 1. Casuals from the primary depot list 2. Casuals from secondary depot list 3. Regular employees from the depot 4. Regular employees on the secondary depot list. (b) In the event that the work is overtime then the work will be offered to employees by the master seniority list for that depot and then to employees by the master seniority list that are on the secondary list for that depot. Overtime will not be assigned until all straight time options have been exhausted. (c) Employees will be offered their choice of all casual shifts available at the time; and/or may limit their hours of availability and/or may state preferences in advance. If the Employer fails to contact the employee on the first reasonable attempt, a shift may be assigned based on the employee’s stated availability and preferences. If an employee has not contacted the Employer to confirm a work assignment by 7:00 pm on a day when the Employer leaves a message, the work may be offered to the next most senior available employee. Where work arises that was not foreknown to the Employer, it may be offered to the next most senior employee without adjustment of the work already assigned. (d) A casual call in record shall be maintained of all employees’ notification of availability, employees notified of work requirement by the Employer, inability by the Employer to contact employees and casual work assignments. The casual call in record shall be available for examination by the Union upon request. (e) Employees will notify the Employer of their daily availability for a month’s period no later than seven (7) calendar days prior to the end of the preceding month. Where an employee fails to give notification, he will be assumed to be unavailable for the month. Should the employee give notification after a deadline, he shall be placed at the bottom of the applicable list until such time that he can be placed into his proper seniority

Call-In Procedures. a. Once the schedule is posted, all other shifts that become available shall be known as call-in shifts. b. A shift will be deemed to be offered whenever a call is placed; Employees must provide one (a1) Casual or two (2) telephone numbers for all call-in purposes. An employee’s home telephone number is presumed to be the contact number unless the Hospital receives written notification to the contrary; An offer to work cannot be accepted from anyone other than the employee; Nothing in the above precludes an employee from calling the Hospital once they receive a message indicating that a call was made, to check to see if the shift remains available and if so, to accept the shift at that time; i. All call in shifts shall be equally distributed amongst all regular part time employees in that unit, department or classification by order of seniority on a bi- weekly basis, provided all RPT employees in that unit, department or classification have met their commitment as outlined in Article 13.01f. c. If there is more than one shift available on the same day at the same time of the phone call the first employee to be called shall be offered on the basis their preference of master list seniority in the following ordershift, assuming the employee has given prior notice of availability according to the established procedure: 1. Casuals from the primary depot list 2. Casuals from secondary depot list 3. Regular employees from the depot 4. Regular employees on the secondary depot listif any. (b) In the event that the work is overtime then the work will d. If call in shifts are for different days each one shall be offered to employees by the master seniority list for that depot treated as a separate call and then to employees by the master seniority list that are on the secondary list for that depot. Overtime will not be assigned until all straight time options have been exhausted. (c) Employees will shall be offered their choice preference of all casual shifts available at the time; and/or may limit their hours of availability and/or may state preferences in advance. If the Employer fails to contact the employee on the first reasonable attempt, a shift may be assigned based on the employee’s stated availability and preferences. If an employee has not contacted the Employer to confirm a work assignment by 7:00 pm on a day when the Employer leaves a message, the work may be offered to the next most senior available employee. Where work arises that was not foreknown to the Employer, it may be offered to the next most senior employee without adjustment of the work already assignedwhich day. (d) A casual call i. An employee called in record for an entire shift shall be maintained paid for the full shift if he/she reports within one hour of all employees’ notification of availability, employees notified of work requirement by the Employer, inability by the Employer to contact employees being called and casual work assignments. The casual call in record shall be available for examination by the Union upon request. (e) Employees will notify the Employer of their daily availability for a month’s period no later than seven (7) calendar days prior if he/she worked to the end of the preceding monthshift. ii. Where an An employee fails who is called after the shift commences and reports to give notification, he work within one (1) hour of receiving the call will be assumed paid from the time of the phone call. If the employee reports after one hour of receiving the call, the employee will be paid for the hours actually worked. iii. Call in shifts for Premium pay will be offered to the most senior full time employee unless that employee has agreed not to be called in writing. f. Prior to ordering in, the Hospital must exhaust all normal call in procedures at both regular rate of pay and then offer shift available at overtime rate of pay based on the call in language. All steps below must be exhausted before ordering in at overtime: i. Called all RPT on the unit at regular pay, including those who have mutualled shifts at regular rate of pay ii. Called all CPT on the unit at regular pay iii. Called all RPT off the unit who have indicated an availability in writing to work on that unit (lettered) at regular pay iv. RPT who have retracted an unavailable for day v. RPT on the monthunit who are listed as unavailable vi. Should Called all eligible Casual Float Pool employees at regular pay vii. Offered shift at overtime rate to RFT on the unit viii. Offered shift at overtime rate to RPT on the unit ix. Offered shift at overtime rate to RPT off the unit x. Offered shift at overtime rate to CPT on the unit If no employee give notification after accepts the available shift as outlined above the Hospital may be required to order staff in to work – starting with regular part time then full time in reverse order of seniority. An employee is expected to report to work as ordered, unless they are incapable of working. g. Reassignment of staff will normally occur first within the home site. It is understood that from time to time staff may be reassigned between sites based on operational need. The Hospital will take all reasonable steps to ensure the following three (3) conditions exist before making any reassignment decision: i. the receiving unit has a deadlinebona fide need; ii. the sending unit has capacity to send someone; iii. the appropriate person is making the reassignment decision (e.g. Charge Nurse, he shall be placed at the bottom of the applicable list until such time that he can be placed into his proper seniorityOff-Shift Coordinator, Clinical Manager or designate).