TRAVELLING Overtime compensation referred to in Article 46, shall only be applicable on a work day for hours in excess of the employee’s daily scheduled hours of work.
TRAVELLING TIME 9.01 When the Employer requires an employee to travel for the purpose of performing duties the employee shall be compensated in the following manner:
(a) on a normal working day on which an employee travels but does not work, the employee shall receive regular pay for the day.
(b) on a normal working day on which an employee travels and works, the employee shall be paid:
(i) regular pay for the day for a combined period of travel and work not exceeding seven and one-half (7 ½) hours,
(ii) at the applicable overtime rate for additional travel time in excess of a seven and one-half (7 ½) hour period of work and travel, with a maximum payment for such additional travel time not to exceed twelve (12) hours pay in any day, calculated at the straight-time rate.
(c) on a day of rest or on a designated paid holiday, the employee shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate for hours travelled to a maximum payment of twelve (12) hours pay, calculated at the straight-time rate.
9.02 For the purpose of clause 9.01, the travelling time for which an employee shall be compensated is as follows:
(a) for travel by public transportation, the time between the scheduled time of departure and the time of arrival at a destination, including the normal travel time to the point of departure, as determined by the Employer;
(b) for travel by private means of transportation, the normal time as determined by the Employer, to proceed from the employee’s place of residence or work place, as applicable, direct to the destination and, upon return, direct back to the employee’s residence or work place;
(c) in the event that an alternate time of departure and/or means of travel is requested by the employee, the Employer may authorize such alternate arrangements in which case compensation for travelling time shall not exceed that which would have been payable under the Employer’s original determination. Such request shall not be unreasonably denied;
(d) when an employee travels through more than one (1) time zone, computation will be made as if the employee had remained in the time zone of the point of origin for continuous travel and in the time zone of each point of overnight stay after the first day of travel.
9.03 All calculations for travelling time shall be based on each completed period of fifteen (15) minutes.
9.04 Travelling time shall include time necessarily spent at each stop-over en route provided that such stop-over does not include an overnight stay.
9.05 Compensation under this Article shall not be paid for travel time to courses, training sessions, conferences and seminars unless so provided for in Article 18 (Career Development and Training).
Travel No expenses for travel will be reimbursed unless specifically authorized by this Contract. Permitted expenses will be reimbursed at the rate paid by the State and in accordance with the Budget Agency’s Financial Management Circular – Travel Policies and Procedures in effect at the time the expenditure is made. Out-of-state travel requests must be reviewed by the State for availability of funds and for conformance with Circular guidelines.
Traveling Teachers Traveling teachers are those who are not assigned a dedicated classroom of their own due to limited space. If traveling is necessary within a subject area, traveling status should be rotated. In order to facilitate optimum conditions for instruction, traveling teachers should, to the greatest extent practicable, be provided the following:
1. A quiet, secure space that contains a desk and filing space;
2. Storage space within the classrooms used for instruction;
3. A designated bulletin board and/or chalk or white board in the classrooms used for instruction;
4. An appropriate cart to transfer materials;
5. Supplies needed for instruction to the same extent as other teachers and those unique to traveling teachers.
Trips A.1 All regular routes will be rebid annually at the transportation in-service in August.
A.2 All extra trips shall be offered to drivers on the basis of rotation. At the beginning of each school year, a rotation list, in order of seniority, shall be posted. Such list shall indicate the driver’s eligibility for extra trips.
A.3 When LaBrae is not in session, and LaBrae students attending the career center are required to go to school on said days, the transport of students to the career center will be considered an extra trip and automatically awarded to the driver whose route includes transporting LaBrae students to the career center. Should the driver decline the trip, the trip will be offered to the remaining drivers as an extra trip according to the seniority rotation described herein. The driver awarded the trip is paid only for the time to transport students to and from the career center, and it will only count as one trip in the calculation of the trip bonus identified in Article IX, Clause A.8. Under such circumstances, the driver will be paid a total of two (2) hours for transporting said students to and from the career center.
A.4 As trip lists are posted, the drivers shall indicate on the list if he/she wishes to bid for the trip. In the event the drivers refuse, they shall be charged with the trip as though it had been driven. The Trip will then be assigned to the driver next in rotation.
A.5 A list of extra trips will be posted on the board by Thursday afternoon for extra trips to be offered the following week and taken down by 9:00 a.m. on Friday morning. Drivers will review the list and initial the trips they wish to take during this time period.
A.6 Drivers who fail to take assigned trips on six (6) instances will be removed from the rotation list for the semester.
A.7 A driver cannot take an extra trip on a day in which they are using sick leave.
A.8 All extra trips shall be paid at the rate of $12.00 per hour. The extra trip rate of pay will be increased each year by the same percentage of increase on the negotiated base wage scale. For every twelve (12) trips worked, drivers will be paid an additional $150.00. The extra trip bonus shall be paid one (1) time per year, at the close of each school year.
A.9 Extra trips shall not be offered to a bus driver when their hours are projected to exceed forty
Workloads The parties agree to the following provisions relating to faculty members' workload.
(a) The registration limits for all courses currently offered by the Employer in the academic, career and technology areas are 35 unless established by practice as lower, excepting multiple sections where the limit is the correct multiple of the number of sections involved.
(b) The registration limits for English are as follows:
(i) Writing and Composition Courses - 25 (ii) Writing Skills -17 (iii) Creative Writing - 22
Load Shedding The systematic reduction of system demand by temporarily decreasing Load in response to a transmission system or area Capacity shortage, system instability, or voltage control considerations under the ISO OATT. Local Furnishing Bonds. Tax-exempt bonds issued by a Transmission Owner under an agreement between the Transmission Owner and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (“NYSERDA”), or its successor, or by a Transmission Owner itself, and pursuant to Section 142(f) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 142(f). Locality. A single LBMP Load Zone or set of adjacent LBMP Load Zones within one Transmission District within which a minimum level of Installed Capacity must be maintained. Local Reliability Rule. A Reliability Rule established by a Transmission Owner, and adopted by the NYSRC to meet specific reliability concerns in limited areas of the NYCA, including without limitation, special conditions and requirements applicable to nuclear plants and special requirements applicable to the New York City metropolitan area. Locational Based Marginal Pricing (“LBMP”). A pricing methodology under which the price of Energy at each location in the NYS Transmission System is equivalent to the cost to supply the next increment of Load at that location (i.e., the short-run marginal cost). The short-run marginal cost takes generation Bid Prices and the physical aspects of the NYS Transmission System into account. The short-run marginal cost also considers the impact of Out-of-Merit Generation (as measured by its Bid Price) resulting from the Congestion and Marginal Losses occurring on the NYS Transmission System which are associated with supplying an increment of Load. The term LBMP also means the price of Energy bought or sold in the LBMP Markets at a specific location.
FARES AND TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE In lieu of the basic daily excess fares and travel pattern allowance prescribed by Clause 38.1.1 of the award, a payment per day shall be made for each day worked (including RDO’s). This payment shall in no way limit or be construed as a payment in substitution for any other entitlement arising under Clause 38 of the award. Payments shall be as follows: ⮚ 1/3/03 $22.50 per day ⮚ 1/3/04 $23.40 per day ⮚ 1/3/05 $24.55 per day The cost of Citylink tolls or similar will be reimbursed for those employees who are required by the company to use their own vehicle during working hours, but not for travel to and from work.
Training a. The employer, in consultation with the local, shall be responsible for developing and implementing an ongoing harassment and sexual harassment awareness program for all employees. Where a program currently exists and meets the criteria listed in this agreement, such a program shall be deemed to satisfy the provisions of this article. This awareness program shall initially be for all employees and shall be scheduled at least once annually for all new employees to attend.
b. The awareness program shall include but not be limited to:
i. the definitions of harassment and sexual harassment as outlined in this Agreement;
ii. understanding situations that are not harassment or sexual harassment, including the exercise of an employer's managerial and/or supervisory rights and responsibilities;
iii. developing an awareness of behaviour that is illegal and/or inappropriate;
iv. outlining strategies to prevent harassment and sexual harassment;
v. a review of the resolution of harassment and sexual harassment as outlined in this Agreement;
vi. understanding malicious complaints and the consequences of such;
vii. outlining any Board policy for dealing with harassment and sexual harassment;
viii. outlining laws dealing with harassment and sexual harassment which apply to employees in B.C.
Meals Meals charged to the School District should represent mid-fare selections for the hotel/meeting facility or general area, consistent with the maximum allowable reimbursement amount set by the Board. Tips are included with meal charges. Expense forms must explain the meal charges incurred. Alcoholic beverages will not be reimbursed.
