PROCEDURES FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WHO DESIRE ADDITIONAL HOURS. (Part-time Agreements Only) The parties agree it is to their mutual benefit to define further their intentions as to reasonable procedural clarifications they have developed within the existing language of their Collective Agreement to expedite processing of Procedures for Part-Time Employees who Desire Additional Hours. They therefore agree on the following outline for the duration of the Collective Agreement. During the term of that Agreement, the following procedural clarifications shall be deemed to be part of that Collective Agreement and grievable and arbitrable under the terms of that Agreement to the extent that, and always recognizing that, the object of this Letter of Understanding is to expedite the procedures in the Collective Agreement and the general understanding of the procedures in the Collective Agreement for all parties while remaining within the language of that Agreement. The following is therefore intended to record the Company's established policies with regard to potential applicants to postings under sub-Articles 14.08(a) to (e) of the main body of this Collective Agreement. Part-time employees who wish additional hours should advise the Human Resources Department in their store of their availability. Reasonable efforts will be made through the Human Resources office in a reasonable time frame to ensure that established, non-temporary part-time staff who make the desire for additional hours known in advance to Human Resources will, where qualified to perform the work in question, be assigned in such a way as to have better opportunities than temporary or new part-time staff for such hours. It is understood that employees who attempt to significantly restrict their availability or whose preference for a particular department or departments precludes ease of such scheduling shall not have a valid complaint that they are being scheduled fewer hours. It is further understood that efforts to meet such requests will require the time necessary to find ways to co-ordinate availability among several departments and managers and this time may vary considerably with circumstances.
