Team Leader or In Charge of Floor. Whenever a nurse is assigned additional responsibility to direct, supervise or oversee work of nurses, and/or be assigned overall responsibility for patient care for the team or floor, for a tour of duty, she shall be paid a premium of one dollar ($1.00) per hour in addition to her regular salary and applicable premium allowance. Effective date of the award, increase rate to one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) per hour. Effective July 1, 2017, increase rate to one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per hour. Note: It is understood and agreed that there are not any team leaders on nights or evenings. It is also understood and agreed that there will not be any pyramiding of the premiums in Article 19.04.
Team Leader or In Charge of Floor. Whenever a nurse is assigned additional responsibility to direct, supervise or oversee work of nurses, and/or be assigned overall responsibility for patient care for the team or floor, for a tour of duty, she shall be paid a premium of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per hour in addition to her regular salary and applicable premium allowance. Effective and retroactive to July 1, 2018 increase premium by $0.03 to $1.27 Effective and retroactive to July 1, 2019 increase premium by $0.03 to $1.30 Effective and retroactive to July 1, 2020 increase premium by $0.03 to $1.33 Effective and retroactive to July 1, 2021 increase premium by $0.07 to $1.40 Effective July 1, 2022 increase premium by $ 0.10 Cents to $1.50 Note: It is understood and agreed that there are not any team leaders on nights or evenings. It is also understood and agreed that there will not be any pyramiding of the premiums in Article 19.04.
(a) The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one (1) annual increment for each one (1) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of fifteen hundred (1500) hours paid in previous employment equals one (1) year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. For greater clarity, related nursing experience includes related nursing experience out of province and out of country.
(b) If a period of more than two (2) years has elapsed since the nurse has occupied a full-time or a part-time nursing position, then the number of increments to be paid, if any, shall be at the discretion of the Employer. The Employer may also give effect to part-time nursing experience in special circumstances.
(c) Currently employed nurses who were eligible to claim credit under the formula of 1 increment for every 2 years of experience, may make a claim under the present provision and may have their position on the salary grid adjusted effective date of ratification, to a maximum of level 6 (i.e. 5th year increment).
