Relief Pool. Report for duty leave relievers are added to the relief pool and each member of the relief pool is allocated to report for duty relief for periods of time.
Relief Pool. Short notice relievers are added to the relief pool and each member of the relief pool is allocated to short notice relief for periods of time. House officers and Medical registrars are examples where this method of short notice relief are likely to be appropriate.
Relief Pool. Employees who have successfully bid on a “Relief” position at one or more houses shall be considered part of the Relief Pool. To remain active in the Relief Pool at any particular program the employee must be willing and able to accept a minimum of eight (8) hours of work in any two (2) consecutive pay periods within the employee’s pre-declared hours of availability if it is offered with reasonable notice (at least two-and-one-half (2½) hours) at least two (2) documented times within the two (2) consecutive pay periods. Employees who do not meet this minimum or who do not respond to telephone messages offering relief work for two (2) or more consecutive pay periods shall be removed from the individual program’s relief lists. Employees who do not accept relief work offered in three (3) consecutive pay periods pursuant to the above rules may be considered to have resigned without notice and their employment may be terminated.
Relief Pool. A relief pool of TOS/RTOS will be implemented. The Transportation Department will hire new additional full-time TOS/RTOS who shall serve as a relief pool. The relief pool shall not be comprised of current TOS/RTOS and shall not cause the transfer or reassignment of any current TOS/RTOS unless done so through the bidding process. The Relief Pool weekly work schedules will be created to fill known and projected TOS/RTOS vacant shifts. The relief pool will not be used to fill a permanent vacancy or as a substitute for overtime.
Relief Pool. A relief pool will be established for purposes of filling unfilled shifts when relief options with regular bargaining members have been exhausted. Relief pool employees shall be trained to at least two (2) programs.
Relief Pool. Equipment Maintenance Supervisors When a relief pool of Equipment Maintenance Supervisors (EMS/REMS) is implemented, the Maintenance Department will hire new additional full-time EMS/REMS who shall serve as a Relief Pool for the Maintenance Divisions. The relief pool shall not be comprised of current EMS/REMS and shall not cause the transfer or reassignment of any current EMS/REMS unless done so through the bidding process. Relief Pool Equipment Maintenance Supervisors’ weekly work schedules will be created to fill known and protected EMS/REMS vacant shifts and will backfill vacancies caused by vacations, sickness, FMLA/CFRA and other leaves as needed. When a shift is determined to be a permanent vacancy, it shall not be filled from the relief pool.
Relief Pool. The Relief Pool shall be increased from the current eight (8) least senior Firefighters (as of May 1, 2016) to ten (10) least senior Firefighters by designating new employees hired following of May 1, 2016 as Relief Pool firefighters. Employees on staff as of May 1, 2016 will not be added to the Relief Pool even though they may be among the ten (10) least senior Firefighters during the transition period. Following the hiring of the two (2) new employees to bring the Relief Pool to ten (10) members, no employee shall be required to remain as a relief pool firefighter longer than the first four (4) years of service following the training periods referenced in B6 below providing that, the number of Relief Pool Firefighters remaining, shall not be less than eight (8). At the completion of service as a Relief Pool Firefighter the employee’s hours of work shall be in accordance with Article 4.1 of the Collective Agreement, The Relief Pool shall not exceed ten (10) members at any time. Firefighters in the Relief Pool shall not be bound by the Hours of Work provisions of the Collective Agreement and the Fire Department Act but shall instead be governed by the following:
1. The members shall be assigned from the Relief Pool to a regular platoon on the basis of seniority. ‘Seniority’ shall be the date established in accordance with Article 4.9 of the collective agreement.
2. The ten (10) Relief Pool members shall work three hundred and thirty-six (336) hours over each of their respective and successive fifty-six (56) day cycles. For purposes of this provision there may be up to four (4) separate and distinct fifty-six (56) day cycles, i.e. one (1) for each platoon (rather than a single cycle covering all four (4) platoons).
3. Members required to work the schedule set out under (2) above shall be assigned to a fifty-six
