HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME a. The regular work week shall consist of four (4) eight (8) hour shifts (Monday through Thursday) and one (1) five (5) hour shift (Friday for a total of thirty seven (37) hours). A four (4) day week will be implemented in accordance with the Letter of Understanding #2 appended to this Collective Agreement. b. The regular daily shift commences at 7:30 a.m. at the jobsite. In the event that equipment, trucks or material need to be picked up from the shop or office, the regular daily shift commences at 7:30 a.m. at the shop or office. For out of town projects which require daily commuting employees are not required to leave the shop earlier than 6:30 a.m. Where travel out of town is required, employees are not required to leave the shop earlier than 6:00 a.m., once per week, where accommodation is provided. c. The regular daily shift shall end at 4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday inclusive and end at 1:00 p.m. Friday. d. A one half hour unpaid meal break will be deducted midway through the work day, and after 5 hours worked at the latest. The employee is entitled to one (1) paid fifteen (15) minute work break in the forenoon and in the afternoon. a. Overtime will commence after forty-four (44) hours per week. All work performed on Saturdays and all hours worked in excess of nine (9) hours per shift shall be overtime and paid for at the rate of one and one-half (1½) times the regular hourly rate. Weekly overtime shall not be calculated on hours for which daily overtime has been calculated. Where a shift change occurs and an employee begins a second shift in a twenty-four (24) hour period due to a “short change,” daily overtime is not paid unless eight hours or less break between shifts is provided, in which case daily overtime premium pay is paid. Where a second shift change occurs within the same work week, daily overtime is applicable on that second shift change. b. Premium time will be paid for all hours worked on Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays, unless made clear to the employee that such time worked is non-premium time and not mandatory work. c. Premium time on Saturdays will be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the normal rate, and on Sundays and statutory holidays will be paid at two (2) times the normal rate. d. Weekend Definition – where there is a night shift (coming as a result of a shift change as defined in 8.02a.), such shifts are normally scheduled as follows: i. In a four (4) shift week, the first shift of the week begins Sunday night and the last is Wednesday night. The Sunday shift is considered Monday and does not attract premium pay. ii. In a five (5) shift week, the first shift of the week begins Sunday night and the last is Thursday night. The Sunday shift is considered Monday and does not attract premium pay. iii. In a six (6) shift week, the first shift begins Sunday night and the last shift begins on Friday night. The Sunday shift is considered Sunday and attracts premium pay. The Friday night shift is a Friday and does not attract premium time for the Saturday hours. e. Notwithstanding the hours described in 8.02(a) above, where the work performed is “time and material”, either as work that is extra to the bid or as a time and material project, an overtime premium of 50% commences after eight (8) hours worked and an overtime premium of 100% commences after twelve (12) hours worked. 8.03 Work shall not be performed on Sunday. However, if extraordinary circumstances necessitate work on Sunday, time worked shall be paid at the rate of two (2) times the regular rate of pay. 8.04 No employee shall be compelled to work on a Sunday or any other day of the week if such work conflicts with the established religious convictions of the employee. 8.05 Employees are paid a shift premium of twenty percent (20%) in addition to the regular hourly rate when shifts begin between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. The twenty percent (20%) premium is an amount added to the hourly rate. The number of hours worked on the shift or in the week is not increased by twenty percent (20%). Shift premium pay is in addition to overtime premium pay described above.
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.
Shift Work (1) Except as varied by this Clause, all other aspects of Section 4 of the Agreement shall apply to the working of shift work. (2) The Company has the right to direct Employees to work shift work as required and the Employees shall work the shift work as directed. Shift work will be worked and paid for in accordance with this subclause. (3) Shift work is deemed to be any arrangement of Project Working Hours where the majority of the Ordinary Hours are worked outside of the spread of Ordinary Hours defined at clause 16 - Hours of Work of this Agreement and when Employees are working as such. (4) Ordinary Hours for shift Employees will comprise thirty-six (36) hours per week averaged over a defined work cycle and will not commence before 5.00pm on Sunday night. Such Ordinary Hours are the specified hours under each shift Employee's terms of employment by reference to which annual leave and personal/carer's leave accrue. (5) Prior to the commencement of shift work, the Company shall seek the agreement of the Employees involved. Failing agreement, the Company will provide to the Employees concerned one (1) week's notice of the commencement of shift work and the starting and finishing times of Ordinary Hours of the shifts. (6) Where less than five (5) consecutive shifts are worked then Employees shall be paid at overtime rates in lieu of the shift loading prescribed at subclause (7) of this clause. The consecutive nature of shifts will not be deemed to be broken if work is not carried out on a Saturday, Sunday, RDO or on any public holiday. (7) A shift Employee shall receive a flat loading of twenty-five (25) percent of their Ordinary Hourly Rate for each hour worked. (8) Employees working night shift shall be entitled to stop work for a half-hour without deduction of pay for the purpose of taking a meal break. (9) The Company may stagger the times for Employees to take meal breaks to meet operational requirements. (10) The Company shall structure the Project Working Hours for Employees working night shift to include one (1) half-hour rest break to be taken without deduction of pay by Employees working the Project Working Hours on any night shift.
