Daily Overtime All employees shall be paid the applicable overtime rate of time and one-half (1-1/2) for all time worked in excess of eight (8) hours per day.
Notice of Overtime The Agency shall give as much notice as possible of overtime to be worked.
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.
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.
Overtime Overtime will begin to accrue after sixty (60) hours in a two (2) week period averaged over the scheduling period determined by the local parties. Overtime will apply if the employee works in excess of the normal daily hours. Payment for overtime is as in Article 16.01.
Mandatory Overtime a. Mandatory Overtime is overtime that an employee is assigned and required to work involuntarily, and will only be required in operational emergencies when sufficient voluntary overtime cannot be secured to maintain the Company’s operation. Mandatory overtime will be limited to the number of employees and hours required to cover the emergency as determined by local management.
b. Mandatory overtime will not exceed 4 hours past an employee’s scheduled shift in any 24 hour period. Employees will not be required to work mandatory overtime until the opportunity to work the additional hours has been offered to all qualified employees who are currently at work, and if there are an insufficient number of volunteers, then to otherwise eligible employees whose names remain on the overtime call sign up list.
c. Mandatory overtime will be assigned in reverse bid seniority order according to shift time, except that employees already working overtime will be assigned last.
d. Every attempt will be made to notify employees on duty of mandatory overtime at least 1 hour in advance. If 1 hour’s advance notice is not provided, the employee will receive 1 ½ hours’ pay as a penalty in addition to the pay earned for any mandatory overtime hours actually worked.
e. Employees will not be assigned mandatory overtime during their vacation periods. For this purpose, the vacation period is defined as the period beginning 24 hours after the commencement of the employee’s last regularly scheduled shift before the vacation commenced. An employee may be assigned to mandatory overtime on the last regularly assigned shift prior to a vacation or DAT day, but will be placed at the bottom of the mandatory overtime list.
f. If any mandatory overtime causes a rest period violation to occur, every attempt will be made to adjust the employee’s shift to provide the minimum 8 hours rest.
g. All mandatory overtime hours will be paid at the applicable rate of pay but not less than the time and one half (1.5X) rate of pay regardless of work status or hours worked. If an employee is required to work mandatory overtime on two or more consecutive days, the minimum payment for all mandatory overtime hours worked will be at the double-time (2X) rate of pay.
Payment for Working Overtime (a) For all work done outside ordinary hours, the rates of pay will be time and a half for the first two hours and double time thereafter.
(b) Except as provided in clause 8.4, in computing overtime each day’s work will stand alone.
(c) To avoid doubt, overtime provisions for shift workers are contained in clause 10.7.
Voluntary Overtime No Employee shall be required to work overtime against her wishes when the work can be done by other employees.
Payment of Overtime For the purposes of calculating overtime payments, each day or shift will stand-alone.
Overtime Meal Allowance Employees required to work more than two (2) hours overtime consecutive with a shift shall be provided with a meal by the Employer.
