Community Living Services Collective Agreement - British Columbia ...

CSSBA and CSSEA - Community Living Services (03/2012) Page 18
(b) An employee who is classified downward as per (2) above will be offered, in order of seniority,
the first vacancy in her former classification with the equivalent number of hours, or less, that she was
working prior to her layoff, prior to the application of the recall provision.
14.1 Definitions
ARTICLE 14 - HOURS OF WORK
For the purpose of this article, "day" means a 24 hours period commencing at 00:01 hours, and "week"
means a period of seven consecutive days beginning at 00:01 hours Sunday and ending at 24:00 hours the
following Saturday.
14.2 Hours of Work
(a) See Memorandum of Agreement # 1 (Re: Local Issues).
(b) (1) If an employee, reporting for work at the call of the Employer, is informed upon arrival at
work that she is not required to work, the employee will be paid for a minimum of two hours' pay
at her regular rate.
(2) An employee reporting for work at the call of the Employer, will be paid a minimum of
three hours' pay at her regular rate if she commences work.
(3) Except as provided in (4) and (5) below, the Employer will not schedule shifts of less
than four hours in duration.
(4) Existing local agreements providing for regularly scheduled shifts which are less than
four hours in duration will continue for the term of this Collective Agreement. Any new
arrangements involving regularly scheduled shifts which are less than four hours in duration will
be subject to local agreement.
(5) Employees working in School Aged Child Care Programmes may be scheduled for a
minimum of three hours.
(c) No employee will be scheduled for more than five consecutive days without receiving two
consecutive days off unless otherwise agreed by the Union and the Employer.
(d) Notwithstanding (c), employees may request, in writing, to be scheduled up to six days in a week
so as to pick up additional hours up to the maximum hours listed in Article 14.2(a) (Hours of Work).
Employees must have a 24 hour break after six consecutive days of work.
(e) To ensure efficient and effective service delivery within a climate of fairness, current
arrangements regarding the assignment of additional hours will continue until such time as local issue
negotiations on this matter are complete. If no agreed upon arrangements exists the following will
apply:
(1) Additional hours up to the allowable straight-time maximum will be offered to employees
by seniority in the following sequential order:
(i) full-time employees
(ii) part-time employees
(2) Regular employees will be offered additional hours within their classification and
worksite before qualified regular employees at other programmes/worksites (see local issues
agreement) in that classification. Remaining additional hours will be offered to qualified regular
employees in other classifications.
(3) Additional hours will be compensated as per Appendix A (Wage Grid). Additional hours
will be used to calculate all benefits of this Collective Agreement except as provided in Article 27
(Health and Welfare Benefits).