It is recognized that the management of the City, the control of its properties and the maintenance of order and efficiency, is solely the responsibility of the City. Other rights and responsibilities belonging to the City are hereby recognized, prominent among which, but by no means wholly inclusive are: work to be performed within the unit, amount of supervision necessary, material and equipment selection, methods, schedules of work, together with the selection or procurement, of designing, engineering, and the control of equipment and materials, contract or otherwise.
It is recognized by the parties that from time to time it may be necessary, due to the nature of the Corporation's operations to place certain weekly salaried day working employees on shift work. Where this occurs, the
1) Shift work shall not be implemented for a period of ten (10) working days or less. If the working period is ten (10) days or less, the appropriate premium rate will be paid for the minimum ten (10) day period.
2) The Corporation will provide fifteen (15) working days posted notice of the commencement and termination of a shift. Failure to provide such notice will require a penalty payment of premium rates for all changed hours of work within the notice period.
3) Such a placing on shift work shall not deprive an employee of their total number of normal scheduled weekly hours.
4) Shift work will be scheduled on a Monday to Friday basis.
5) The appropriate overtime rate shall apply when an employee works in excess of seven hours a day or 35 hours per week.
