Common use of PAYMENT FOR MEETING ATTENDANCE Clause in Contracts

PAYMENT FOR MEETING ATTENDANCE. 16.01 When the Employer requires an employee to be present at a monthly skills check, an emergency drill, a professional development session or a meeting called by the Employer for reasons other than discipline (collectively a “session/meeting”), time spent at such a session/meeting shall be considered as time worked. If the session/meeting is held outside of the employee’s regular working hours, the employee shall be paid for the number of hours scheduled for the meeting or the number of hours spent in the meeting, whichever is greater. The Employer will notify employees of the anticipated scheduled duration of the meeting prior to the meeting. The hours paid for such session/meeting will count as hours worked for the purposes of calculation of overtime entitlements in Article 8. The Employer shall make a reasonable attempt to schedule such sessions/meetings so that most employees working 0.5 EFT or greater can attend them during scheduled working hours, but can ultimately hold such sessions/meetings outside of an employee’s regular working hours.