HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME 23.01 The standard work week for employees shall be forty (40) hours per week.
23.02 The provisions of this Article are not to be interpreted as a guarantee of or a limitation upon the hours of work to be done per day or per week or otherwise nor as a guarantee of working schedules but shall serve to assist the parties in the computation of regular pay and overtime pay. An employee who has worked more than his regular scheduled hours in a day shall be entitled to overtime pay for those excess hours if he works his full scheduled work week. The requirement of working his full scheduled work week does not apply to a reduction in hours:
(a) If the Company reduces his regularly scheduled straight time during the rest of the week.
(b) If the employee is off work because of union business, bereavement leave, vacation, approved leave of absence or hospitalization.
23.03 Employees will be given a thirty (30) minute lunch period without pay during their working shift.
23.04 There shall be no pyramiding of overtime rates.
23.05 Overtime shall initially be on a voluntary basis. However, if the Company is unable to secure sufficient volunteers from amongst persons who have previously satisfactorily performed the work, such persons shall be required to work in reverse order of seniority. The Company shall keep up-to-date records of all overtime worked for employees' inspection.
23.06 Employees shall be allowed an uninterrupted ten (10) minute rest period approximately midway through each half shift.
23.07 Those functions operating on a three (3) shift per day basis are currently scheduled as follows: Day Shift 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Afternoon Shift 3:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Midnight Shift 11:00 p.m. - 7:00 a.m. subject to the following:
(a) This shall not prevent the scheduling of individual functions at other times as required by operations. The Company agrees to discuss any changes in advance with the Union.
(b) The lunch break for persons on such functions are twenty-five (25) minutes paid and the rest break of fifteen (15) minutes paid is once per shift. Whenever any permanent changes to any scheduled shifts are required, the Company will communicate the details of such change to the Union prior to the change.
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.
Normal Hours of Work 10A.01 The normal work day is defined as the twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 12:00 Midnight.
10A.02 The employer has the option of working either five (5) eight (8) hour days or four (4) ten
– HOURS OF WORK & SCHEDULING 15.01 The normal hours of work for an employee are not a guarantee of work per day or per week, or a guarantee of days of work per week. The normal hours of work shall be seven and one-half (7½) hours per day, and seventy-five (75) hours in any bi-weekly period.
15.02 The normal daily shift shall consist of seven and one-half (7½) consecutive hours, exclusive of a one-half (½) hour unpaid meal period. Employees shall be entitled to a fifteen (15) minute paid break during each half of the normal daily shift, at a time designated by the Employer.
15.03 Employees required for reporting purposes shall remain at work for a period of up to fifteen (15) minutes which shall be unpaid. Should the reporting time extend beyond fifteen (15) minutes however, the entire period shall be considered overtime for the purposes of payment.
15.04 Requests for change in posted work schedules must be submitted in writing and co-signed by the employee willing to exchange days off or shifts and are subject to the discretion of the Administrator or her designate. In any event, it is understood that such a change initiated by the employee and approved by the Employer shall not result in overtime compensation or payment or any other claims on the Employer by any employee under the terms of this Agreement.
15.05 Where there is a change to Daylight Savings from Standard Time or vice-versa, an employee who is scheduled and works a full shift shall be paid for a seven and one-half (7½) hour shift rather than the actual hours worked.
15.06 In the event that a meal period is interrupted requiring an employee to attend to a work related problem, then the balance of the unused meal period will be taken within two (2) hours of the interruption. If the employee is unable to reschedule such time, she shall be paid time and one-half (1½) her regular straight time hourly rate for all time worked in excess of her normal daily hours, in accordance with Article 16.01.
HOURS AND OVERTIME 3:1 A workweek is defined as seven (7) consecutive calendar days, from Saturday midnight to Saturday midnight. The basic workweek shall consist of five (5) workdays of eight (8) hours each and shall begin Monday and run through Friday, except when a job other than for a public utility is to be done on Saturday, then the Company may assign another day as a non-workday and Saturdays becomes a workday in the basic workweek. An extended workweek shall begin at starting time Monday and continue until the next Monday starting time. The regular hours of work for all employees shall be from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with an unpaid meal period of thirty (30) minutes which normally will be from 12:00 noon to 12:30 p.m. provided, however, that the regular lunch period may be advance or delayed an hour or less when work must necessarily be performed during the regular lunch period. Such a change in the lunch period shall not be deemed to require the payment of overtime. The regular hours of work may be changed by the Company at the request or direction of the public utility or governmental authorities, and by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. The Company may change the start times by 30 minutes in either direction of the regular start time to meet the operational need without union approval. Such a change in the regular hours of work shall not be deemed to require the payment of overtime.
3:2 Employees shall report to work at pre-determined assembly points and shall return thereto at the conclusion of the day’s work; and the time spent in traveling between such assembly points and the job site shall be considered as time worked.
