Mill Operation during Mill Holidays and Easter Sunday Not withstanding the provisions of the Collective Agreement, the Company reserves the right to operate the Mill during Mill holidays and the non operating day of Easter Sunday. The Company advises the Union thirty (30) days in advance of its intention to do so.
i) When the Mill is operating during a Mill holiday or the non-operating day of Easter Sunday, work crews are kept to a minimum, as for a regular Sunday operation.
ii) An employee who works on a Mill holiday or the non- operating day of Easter Sunday is paid as follows: - Mill holiday is paid according to Section 24; - hours worked are paid at double time; - for each hour worked an additional payment of one (1) hour at the rate paid for the job performed.
iii) An employee who works at least a complete shift during the twenty-four (24) hours of a Mill holiday or the non-operating day of Easter Sunday may take a compensating holiday without pay (one per mill holiday) within the same calendar year, next calendar year for Christmas, at a date approved by his Facilitator.
iv) Employees required by the Company to work on such Mill holidays or the non-operating day of Easter Sunday will be scheduled by following the regular weekly work schedule. Scheduled employees wishing to be excused from working a Mill holiday, or the non-operating day of Easter Sunday, will apply in writing to their Facilitator twenty-one (21) calendar days prior to the commencement of the said days. Vacancies on each shift resulting from these requests will be filled in a manner similar to the manner in which the vacancies created by floating holidays are normally filled, with move-ups conducted on each shift. Vacancies remaining after these shift promotions will be filled by qualified employees on their scheduled day off. The Company will approach those employees in order of seniority with first choice to the senior qualified employee available at the job level of the vacancy. No employee will be scheduled to work at a job level which is more than two classifications above his classified job. Failure to identify qualified employees on their day off willing to work will result in the requests of the junior scheduled employees being denied as outlined in the second paragraph above and therefore these employees will be required to work.
v) The 40 hour shut at Christmas and the 24 hour shuts on the August Civic Holiday and Labour Day will be an operating holiday where the required staffing will be done on a voluntary basis. When production ...
