Time Off in Lieu of Overtime Employees who work overtime will not be required to take time off in regular hours to make up for overtime worked. Time off in lieu may be taken on a mutually agreed upon basis between the employee and the Hospital, such time off will be the equivalent of the premium rate the employee has earned for working overtime. The Hospital shall revert to payment of premium rate if time off is not taken within sixty (60) calendar days."
Annual Leave Loading During a period of annual leave an employee will receive a loading of 17.5 per cent calculated on the employee’s normal hourly rate of pay and the daily fares allowance if applicable. The loading will also apply to proportionate leave on lawful termination.
Banked Overtime (a) Compensating time off shall not be given in lieu of overtime pay unless the employee so chooses. Employees who wish to bank overtime must confirm same in writing to the Company between March 1st and March 15th and again between September 1st and September 15th of each calendar year. Employees shall be entitled to cancel their decision to bank overtime at any time. In such cases, the employee shall provide the Company with a written notice confirming same, and shall not be eligible to resume banking overtime until the following March 1st or September 1st, as the case may be. (b) Accumulated banked overtime hours shall be shown on the employee's weekly pay stub until implementation of the Workbrain System, at which point such information will be available for review through that System. (c) Banked overtime shall accumulate at the rate of one and one-half (1½) or two (2) hours of paid time off, as the case may be, for each hour of overtime worked. Employees shall only bank overtime exceeding one (1) hour. If overtime worked does not exceed one hour, such overtime shall be paid out. (d) Employees shall have the option of cashing in all or any portion of said banked overtime at any time he or she chooses. Banked overtime that is subsequently cashed in by an employee shall be paid to the employee at the regular hourly rate of pay said employee was being paid at that time. All banked overtime must be used or cashed in by the end of the calendar year in which it was earned, unless otherwise mutually agreed to between the employee concerned and the Company. Separate cheques will not be issued for banked overtime but, when paid out, the banked overtime amount will be itemized separately on the employee’s pay record. (e) Subject to the following paragraph, each employee shall decide when his or her compensating time off is to be taken except that no such time off can be taken on the working day immediately preceding and following a general holiday without the prior approval of the Company. Compensating time off shall be granted to employees on a first come first served basis. Seniority shall only apply and be the governing factor in situations where on the same day, too many employees put in a request to take compensating time off at the same time. A maximum of four (4) employees per day shall be entitled to use their banked overtime. These amounts may be increased from time to time at the discretion of the Company. (f) All banked time off requests must be submitted by the Monday of the week preceding the requested time off. The minimum amount of such time off that can be taken at any one time shall be four (4) hours. The Employer agrees to respond to the employee’s request within twenty-four (24) hours. Should no response be given by the Employer, then permission for the time off will be deemed to have been granted (g) For the purpose of using banked overtime for regularly scheduled days off (excluding shut downs), each employee shall have the ability to use a maximum of forty (40) hours while working eight (8) hour shifts and forty-eight (48) hours while working continental shifts per calendar year. All other overtime banked shall be paid out to employees upon request. Should an employee want to take off more than the maximum hours off noted above per calendar year, a written request will be submitted to the Company for consideration and will be approved at the Company’s discretion. (h) No requests for time banked time off for regularly scheduled days off, between April 15th – December 31st of each year will be approved until after the vacation planner has been finalized for the year. Once the planner has been finalized all requests will be granted on a first come first serve basis. (i) No employees will have the ability to request regularly scheduled days off (excluding shut downs) during the prime time vacation period for the use of banked overtime. (j) All employees hired after April 15, 2015 will not be eligible to bank overtime.
Retirement in Lieu of Layoff Any employee who was subject to being, or was in fact, laid off and who is qualified for and who elected service retirement from the Public Employees’ Retirement System shall be placed on an appropriate reemployment list. The District shall notify the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of the fact that retirement was due to layoff. If he/she is subsequently subject to reemployment and accepts, in writing, the appropriate vacant position, the District shall maintain the vacancy, but may fill it on a temporary basis until the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System has properly processed his/her request for reinstatement from retirement.
Banking of Overtime (i) Tour Workers who work in excess of eight (8) consecutive hours shall have the option of receiving the overtime premium on the basis of this Section or of receiving straight time for hours in excess of eight (8) consecutive hours and taking equivalent time off in units of not less than four (4) hours at the hourly rate for the job when the work was performed, at a time suitable to the employee and the Company during the contract year. Any overtime remaining at the end of the contract year in which it is banked may be carried over to the next contract year for purposes of taking equivalent time off. If equivalent time off is not taken by the end of the contract year following the contract year in which it is earned, the Company shall pay the deferred one-half premium pay. Tour Workers who choose to bank overtime may later re-elect to receive the deferred one-half premium pay. (ii) Day Workers who work in excess of ten (10) hours in a day shall have the option of receiving the overtime premium on the basis of this Section or of receiving straight time for hours in excess of ten (10) hours in a day and taking equivalent time off in units of not less than four (4) hours at the hourly rate for the job when the work was performed, at a time suitable to the employee and the Company during the contract year. Any overtime remaining at the end of the contract year in which it is banked may be carried over to the next contract year for purposes of taking equivalent time off. If equivalent time off is not taken by the end of the contract year following the contract year in which it is earned, the Company shall pay the deferred one-half premium pay. Day Workers who choose to bank overtime may later re-elect to receive the deferred one-half premium pay. (iii) When the banked time off is requested in writing seven (7) days in advance, employees shall receive written notice of the disposition of their request a minimum of seventy-two
Notice of Overtime The Agency shall give as much notice as possible of overtime to be worked.
Leave Loading The employer and the individual employee must have genuinely made the agreement without coercion or duress.
Payment of Overtime For the purposes of calculating overtime payments, each day or shift will stand-alone.
Calculation of Overtime If the overtime work has been carried out before as well as after the regular working hours during a certain day, the overtime periods shall be added together. Only full half hours are included in the calculation.
Payment for Working Overtime on a Holiday Where an employee is required to work authorized overtime in excess of his regularly scheduled hours on a paid holiday, such employee shall receive twice (2x) his regular straight time hourly rate for such authorized overtime.
