Order of Offering Extra Hours AFTER schedule posted. (a) After posting of the schedule, available hours will be offered subject to:
i) A nurse in a premium position may be skipped to offer the hours to a nurse, in the order set out below, who is not in a premium position.
ii) A fourth consecutive extended shift may be offered with no premium attached.
(b) In the event that nurses are scheduled below commitment (45 hours), regular part-time nurses with the least number of hours in a pay period will be first offered additional hours. Should nurses have the same number of hours below commitment, seniority will be the determining factor.
(c) Once all regular part-time nurses have been given the opportunity to work up to the regular part-time commitment, extra hours will then be offered to regular part-time nurses on the basis of seniority until the senior regular part-time nurse has the number of hours she wishes or is in an overtime position.
(d) Once regular part-time nurses in the unit have been offered the number of hours he/she wishes or is in a premium position the remaining extra hours may be offered to:
i) job sharing nurses, in order of seniority ii) casual workers in order of seniority.
Order of Offering Extra Hours AFTER schedule posted. (Applicable to both full-time and part-time employees)
i) An employee in a premium position may be skipped to offer the hours to an employee who is not in a premium position. (Applicable to part-time employees only)
ii) In the event that Employees are scheduled below commitment referred to in Article 18.16, regular part-time employees in a unit with the least number of hours in a pay period will be offered additional shifts first. Should employees have the same number of hours below commitment, seniority will be the determining factor.
iii) The remaining extra shifts/hours will be offered on an equal distribution basis (subject to i) above) in order of seniority moving through the list until the shift is accepted. The next name on the list should be the first person called and offered the next available shift, continuing in this fashion until the shift is accepted.
iv) Scheduling errors that result in a junior part-time employee receiving hours that should have been assigned to a more senior part-time employee may be adjusted by the Employer by assigning work in the amount of the lost hours to the affected senior employee within a mutually agreed to time frame. It is understood that such assigned work will be over and above the senior worker’s normal entitlement, and that it will not encroach on the normal entitlement of any other employee. It is further understood that such work assignments shall not constitute overtime.
Order of Offering Extra Hours AFTER schedule posted. (Applicable to both full-time and part-time employees) Premium hours will be offered on the basis of seniority in the following manner:
1. Part-time employees;
2. Job-sharers;
3. Casual employees;
4. Full-time employees.
