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For more information visit our privacy policy.HOURS AND OVERTIME A. Workweek The workweek shall consist of no more than five (5) consecutive days of eight (8) hours/day. This Article shall not restrict the extension of the regular workday or workweek on an overtime basis when such is necessary to carry on the business of the District. The District may establish a ten (10) hour/day, four (4) day work week for all or certain classes of its employees or for employees within a class if the District and the affected employees mutually agree to such a calendar. The President of CSEA Ceres #140 will be notified prior to implementing such a change. B. Work Year All employees will be required to complete a Positive Work Year Calendar for the following year. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this agreement, the work year for school site based ten (10) month employees may be assigned to begin up to fifteen (15) workdays earlier than the first student instructional day. C. Workday An employee with prior approval by his/her supervisor or a supervisor with the approval of the employee may modify the employee’s workday to accommodate a short-term (maximum thirty (30) calendar days) special need, but in no case will the number of hours worked that day be less than assigned. If an agreement cannot be reached, an employee’s supervisor may modify an employee’s workday to accommodate a short-term (maximum thirty (30) calendar days) special need, but in no case will the number of hours worked that day be less than assigned. The employee shall receive no less than a 3 work day prior written notice of the workday change. On an annual basis, a supervisor may modify an employee’s workday (starting and ending times) by no more than 30 minutes without the employee’s permission upon receiving the prior approval of an Assistant Superintendent. The employee shall receive written notice at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to this change taking place. CSEA will be consulted. D. Lunch Periods All employees covered by this Agreement shall be entitled to an uninterrupted lunch period after the employee has been on duty for four (4) hours. The length of time for such lunch shall be for a period of no longer than one hour nor less than one-half (1/2) hour and shall be scheduled for full-time employees at or about the midpoint of each work shift. This also applies to overtime assignments of four hours or more.
Normal Working Hours Prevailing Wage Rate Projects: Work performed from 7:00 a.m. until 4:00
HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME (a) The normal hours of work shall consist of forty (40) hours per week, exclusive of unpaid meal periods. Any hours worked by an employee in excess of eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1½) times his regular hourly base rate as shown on Schedule “A”. (b) Hours worked by a full-time employee on a scheduled day-off shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1½) times his regular hourly base rate on Schedule “A”. (c) The Employer will endeavour to provide as many forty (40) hour positions as can be accommodated while meeting operational requirements and to provide as many straight day, afternoon, and night positions as can be accommodated while meeting operational requirements. There will he no split shifts. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer may, at its discretion, allocate available work to probationary employees and may temporarily reassign Seniority List employees in shifts as may be required for the purposes of training, evaluation, the continuance of efficient operations, and/or accommodating probationary employee assignments. The Employer will endeavour to consider seniority in reassigning employees under this clause. (e) The Employer will post four (4) week work schedules two (2) weeks in advance of the applicable work period, and endeavour to keep schedule changes to a minimum. A week is defined as Sunday to Saturday. (f) The Employer may allow exchange of shifts at the request of two (2) employees, or changes to the posted schedule at an individual's request, provided such change in posted schedules be submitted in writing by both employees, in the case of a shift exchange, and the individual employee in the case of a requested change to the schedule, and the Employer's approval is obtained in advance and that no overtime premium is paid and no additional cost to the Employer results from such exchange of shifts or change in posted schedule. (g) The Employer will endeavour to distribute all overtime hours on an equitable basis amongst full-time seniority list employees in the classification where the overtime is required provided the employees are willing to participate in overtime. Employees not wishing to participate in overtime will advise the Employer in writing and the Employer shall be able to rely upon such notification until it is revoked by the employee in writing. Part-time employees shall be offered the hours only after all full-time employees have refused. (h) Full-time employees who work overtime hours may choose to take time off in lieu of overtime but will not be required or compelled to do so. All lieu time taken will be at time and one half (1 ½) as per the overtime requirement of Article 17(a) and shall be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time between the employee and the Employer. The time off must be taken within forty-five (45) days from the date it was earned, failing which the overtime hours will be paid in accordance with Article 17(a). The employee must elect and indicate to the Employer his/her decision to accept lieu time at the time the employee agrees to work the overtime hours. (i) Wherever possible, shift changes scheduled by the Employer will commence only after a scheduled day off. (j) Schedules may be altered by mutual consent of the Employer and employee, and no overtime shall be payable as a result of said change to the schedule except in accordance with Article 17(a) and (b). Notwithstanding the above, said changes in schedule cannot occur less than forty eight (48) hours prior to the commencement of the scheduled work week. (k) In the event one of the following holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day falls during a given week and an employee is scheduled off work on the day concerned to enjoy the holiday, he shall be deemed, for purposes of computing overtime under 17(a) only, to have worked eight (8) hours on such day.
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