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Health Sciences Assoc. of B.C. v. Campbell Riverand North Island Transition Society Page 5weekends and statutory holidays. A normal shift for"front line workers" is 12 hours a day, 4 days on,and 5 days off.On July 12, 2001, Valery Puetz, Coordinator of theTransition Society, notified the Grievor, that as ofSeptember 4, 2001, her hours would be changed fromher current 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. shift to 11:30a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday. She wasinformed that she would continue to have "a flexibleschedule" and that she could adjust her hours toinclude school presentations.The Grievor and Puetz had had previous discussionsabout her reduced workload; the number of childrenrequiring counseling during her shift had graduallydeclined. The Grievor was doing child-minding inthe mornings, which often [proved a] very busyperiod. These discussions concerning the Grievor'sworkload first arose in the year 2000.2004 BCCA 260 (CanLII)In the Spring of 2001 the Grievor and Puetz onceagain discussed her declining workload. They did soin preparation for a strategic planning meetingwhich was to take place in the Summer of 2001.Puetz asked the Grievor to come back with six orseven possible programs for her position. Neitherthe Grievor nor Puetz wanted to lose this part-timeposition. The Grievor came up with some options andthey agreed to take these to the strategic planningcommittee. One such proposal was to expand theexisting healthy relationships program taught in thelocal schools.When the issue of the Grievor's position was raisedat the Board's strategic planning meeting it openedup a wider discussion of her position and her hoursof work. In the end, the Board decided to changethe hours of work for the Grievor's position so thatcounselling services could be offered to a greaternumber of school aged children; thus the change inhours to 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (In fact, theposition currently has been operating from 2:30 to9:00 p.m., Tuesdays to Fridays. Puetz stated thatwith these new hours the workload has been"overwhelming" because there has been a substantial