Canadian Blood Services (Technical) Collective Agreement 2021-2024

Article 26: Shift and Weekend Differentials

1. Shift Differential
   1. A shift differential two dollars and seventy-five cents ($2.75) per hour shall be paid to:
      1. employees working a shift wherein the majority of the hours worked, excluding meal periods, of such shift falls within the period sixteen hundred (1600) hours to twenty-three hundred (2300) hours; or
      2. employees for each hour worked between sixteen hundred (1600) hours to twenty-three hundred (2300) hours provided that two (2) hours or more are worked between sixteen hundred (1600) hours and twenty-three hundred (2300) hours.  
   2. A night shift premium of five dollars ($5.00) per hour shall be paid to:
      1. employees working a shift wherein the majority of the hours worked, excluding meal periods, falls within the period twenty-three hundred (2300) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours; or
      2. employees for each hour worked between twenty-three hundred (2300) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours provided that two (2) hours or more are worked within twenty-three hundred (2300) hours and zero seven hundred (0700) hours.
   3. Eligible hours for the purposes of Article 26.01 shall include overtime hours worked by the Employee.
2. 1. A weekend differential of three dollars and twenty-five cents ($3.25) per hour shall be paid to an Employee for all hours worked between 22:00 Friday and 05:30 Monday inclusive of overtime hours.
   2. Eligible hours for the purposes of Article 26.02 shall include overtime hours worked by the Employee.
3. Where applicable, shift differential and weekend differentials shall be stacked.
4. Shift and weekend differentials shall not be considered part of the basic rate of pay.