HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT The Standard Hours of Work shall be as follows: 5.1 The Standard Hours of Work per day shall be eight (8) hours. 5.2 For pay purposes the first day of the week commences at 11:00 p.m. Sunday. Standard working hours for a three (3) shift operation will be 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. For the purposes of calculating a calendar day on a three shift operation, the aforesaid day shall begin at 11 p.m. 5.3 The Standard Hours of Work per week shall be forty (40) hours. The aforementioned Standard Hours of Work are stated solely for the purpose of calculating overtime and shall not be construed as a guarantee of any minimum or as a restriction on any maximum number of hours to be worked. 5.4 The standard working days shall be five (5). Monday to Friday inclusive, with the exception that Employees assigned to shift work, maintenance and trouble calls, will be required to work on any regularly assigned five (5) day period in any weekly period of seven (7) days. 5.5 During the Term of this Agreement, the Employer shall maintain and post three (3) master schedules for: 1st Schedule: Staff that are on twelve (12) hour shifts at the Xxxxxxxx Facility, 2nd Schedule: Staff that work straight days at the Xxxxxxxx Facility and includes the staff that primarily operate the communal xxxxx and the water outstations. 3rd Schedule: Staff that operate the Dundas WWTP and primarily operate the wastewater/stormwater outstations and CSO facilities. All master schedules shall be as attached in Schedule "B". For master schedules based on a seven (7) day per week rotating basis, the Employer shall develop such master schedules based on an average of forty (40) hours per week. The Employer has the right to modify such schedules provided that it gives all affected Employees one hundred and twenty (120) days prior notice of such modifications, except in the case of the Xxxxxxxx Avenue master schedules. For the Xxxxxxxx Avenue twelve (12) hour master schedule, the Employer shall not revise the schedule without the mutual consent of the Bargaining Unit, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, except where the Employer is compelled to modify the master schedule in order to operate such Facilities. 5.6 An Employee who reports for work on a scheduled working day and who has not been previously notified not to report shall be guaranteed a minimum of four (4) hours work or pay. 5.7 Employees shall be allowed a ten (10) minute rest period in the first half and second half of a shift, and a Twenty (20) minute paid lunch period that will be taken between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 5.8 The Employer shall give seven (7) calendar days notice of a change of shift. In the event the Employer is unable to give seven (7) days' notice, it shall pay such Employees affected by the change of shift at a rate of time and one-half (1 1/2) for the first day of such shift change. The foregoing, however, shall not apply when the change of shift is caused by absence of Employees due to illness or accident or matters beyond the control of the Employer. 5.9 For Employees working on twelve (12) hours shifts, Article 5 of this Agreement is modified as follows: (a) Section 5.1 does not apply; (b) Section 5.2 does not apply and the following is substituted: For pay purposes, the first day of the week for a twelve (12) hour shift commences at 6 p.m. on Sunday; (c) Section 5.3 does not apply; (d) Section 5.4 does not apply and the following is substituted: The standard working days shall be twelve (12) hour shifts as are presently scheduled or any such schedule as may be agreed to by the parties; (e) Section 5.7 does not apply and the following is substituted: Employees shall be allowed four (4) fifteen (15) minute rest periods. Two (2) of which will be in the first half of the shift and two (2) of which will be in the second half of the shift. One of the rest periods in each half of the shift shall be used as a lunch period; and, (f) Shift schedules to be based on an average of forty (40) hours per week. (g) The employer agrees to discuss the move toward an equalized bi- weekly payroll system. The decision to implement will be reached only after the details of the various consequences have been explained with the Union and agreed to on that basis.
HOUR OF SERVICE The crediting method for Hours of Service is: (Choose (a) or (b)) (a) The actual method. (b) The ____________________________ equivalency method, except:
HOURS OF WORK i) Where employees are now working a longer daily tour, the provisions set out in this Article governing the regular hours of work on a daily tour shall be adjusted accordingly. ii) The normal daily extended tour shall be 11.25 consecutive hours in any 24-hour period, exclusive of a total of forty-five (45) minutes of unpaid meal time. For hybrid schedules, there will be scheduled normal daily tours of seven and one-half (7½) hours and 11.25 consecutive hours per day. iii) Employees working an extended tour shall be entitled, subject to the exigencies of resident care, to paid relief periods during the tour of a total of forty-five (45) minutes. For hybrid schedules, there will also be shifts that provide for relief periods in accordance with Article 15.02. iv) Scheduling issues will be resolved at the local level. v) Where the union and the employer have agreed to or agree to an extended daily tour or hybrid schedule that differs from the normal daily extended tour, the proportion of unpaid time to hours of work shall maintain the same ratio as set out in paragraph ii) and iii) of this Article.
Year of Service An Employee must complete at least Hours of Service during a Vesting Computation Period to receive credit for a Year of Service under Article V. [Note: The number may not exceed 1,000. If left blank, the requirement is 1,000.]