Canadian Blood Services (Transport Unit) Collective Agreement 2017-2021

Article 34: Part-Time, Temporary and Casual Employees

1. Applicability of Agreement
   1. Except as modified by this Article, all provisions of this Collective Agreement shall apply to regular part-time, and temporary Employees on a pro-rata basis when applicable.
   2. Except as modified by this Article, the provisions of this Collective Agreement shall not apply to casual Employees.
2. Wages
   
   The basic hourly rate of pay for regular part-time, temporary and casual Employees shall be as indicated under Article 24.01.
3. Probation
   1. Regular part-time and temporary Employees shall be on probation for the first six hundred (600) hours worked.  This probationary period may be extended by up to a maximum of four hundred and fifty (450) hours worked, by mutual agreement between the Employer and the Union if required for competency certification.
   2. If an Employee is unsatisfactory in the opinion of the Employer, such Employee may be terminated at any time during the probationary period without cause or notice and without recourse to the grievance procedure.
   3. A temporary Employee shall not have the right to grieve the termination of their employment on the expiry of the term for which they were hired.
4. Anniversary Increments
   
   Regular part-time, temporary, and casual Employees shall be entitled to an increment on the completion of one-thousand, nine-hundred and fifty (1,950) regular paid hours and a further increment on the completion of each additional one-thousand, seven hundred and forty-seven decimal five (1,747.5) regular paid hours up to the maximum increment level granted to full-time Employees in accordance with the salary schedule outlined in Article 24.01 of this Collective Agreement.
5. Hours of Work and Overtime
   1. Articles 6.01 (a) and (b) and 9.03 shall not apply to regular part-time and temporary Employees.
   2. Regular part-time and temporary Employees shall not work in excess of seven (7) consecutive calendar days without a day off.
   3. Regular part-time, temporary and casual Employees shall receive overtime pay at two (2X) times their regular rate for time worked in excess of seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours, exclusive of any meal period taken.
   4. The Employer shall offer regular part-time Employees additional hours that arise due to operational requirements before such hours are offered to casual Employees.  These additional hours will be made available to regular part-time Employees who have placed their names on the sign-up sheet for extra hours on the basis of seniority. If no regular part-time Employee is available or willing to work the extra hours and there are no casual Employees available, then the least senior part-time Employee shall be assigned such hours.
6. Filling of Regular Full-Time Vacancies
   1. When a full-time vacancy occurs, regular part-time Employees will be given the first opportunity to fill such vacancy.  The determining factors shall be qualifications and ability, and where these two factors are considered by the Employer to be relatively equal, seniority shall be the deciding factor.
   2. If the Employee is selected to fill a regular full-time position in another classification, they will be on a trial period for three hundred (300) hours worked.  This trial period may be extended up to a maximum of three hundred (300) hours worked, by mutual agreement between the Employer and the Union if required for competency certification.  Should the Employee fail to succeed during the trial period, or request to return to their former position/status, they shall be reinstated in their former position without loss of seniority.
   3. On appointment to a regular full-time position, all benefits of this Agreement that were not previously applicable will apply and commence to accrue from the date of appointment to the full-time position subject to the regulations and eligibility requirements applicable to full-time Employees.
   4. Further to (c) above, the Employee will retain their accumulated service credits for the purpose of calculating vacation entitlement in the regular full-time position.
   5. When a regular part-time, temporary part-time, or casual Employee is the successful applicant to fill a regular full-time position, the number of regular paid hours from the date they started employment as a regular part-time, temporary part-time or casual Employee in such position, or from the date they received their last pay increment in such position, shall be determined.  These number of regular paid hours shall be credited for the purpose of determining their anniversary date for annual increments. If, for example, they had eighteen hundred (1800) regular paid hours as a regular part-time, temporary part-time or casual Employee on the date when they were appointed to the regular full-time position, they need to accrue only one hundred and fifty (150) regular paid hours more, from that date, to entitle them to an anniversary increment.  From then on, this date shall be their new anniversary date for future pay increments purposes.
      
      All leaves of absence with pay, vacations, leaves of absence for Union business, periods of sick leave with pay, and while in receipt of Workers’ Compensation benefits (average hours in last two weeks worked) shall be considered as regular paid hours for the purpose of calculating salary increments in accordance with this Article.
7. Filling of Temporary (Full-Time) and Casual Positions
   
   The Employer will endeavour to fill temporary (full-time) and casual positions with available regular part-time Employees within classifications. The employment status of such Employees will not be changed to temporary or casual.
8. Paid Leaves and Court Duty
   1. The pay entitlement of regular part-time and temporary Employees for authorized bereavement leave, wedding leave, citizenship leave and court duty shall be as provided in Articles 18.02 and Article 27 respectively, but shall be limited to their posted scheduled hours of work.
   2. The pay entitlement of regular part-time and temporary Employees for authorized appointment leave and personal leave shall be as provided in Article 34.08, however, their annual entitlement shall be pro-rated in proportion to their full-time equivalency.
9. Benefits Program
   1. Regular part-time Employees who are scheduled to work at least eighteen point seven five (18.75) hours per week on a regular basis shall be eligible to participate in the Employee Benefits Program specified in Article 17 subject to applicable regulations and requirements of such plans.
   2. Temporary full-time and temporary part-time Employees who are scheduled to work at least eighteen point seven five (18.75) hours per week shall be entitled to participate in the Employee Benefit Plans specified in Article 20 after the completion of twelve (12) months of continuous employment, subject to the applicable rules and regulations of such plans.
   3. Casual Employees are not eligible to participate in the Benefits Program provided under this Agreement.
10. Named Holidays
    1. On each pay cheque, regular part-time and temporary part-time and casual Employees shall be paid, in addition to their regular rate of pay, five percent (5%) of their gross regular earnings (excluding overtime and premiums) in lieu of scheduled named holidays.
    2. Regular part-time and temporary part-time Employees required to work on a scheduled named holiday shall be paid in addition to a) above at two (2) times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked on such holiday(s).
    3. Casual Employees required to work on a scheduled named holiday shall be paid at two (2) times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked.
11. Annual Vacation
    1. On the first pay in June of each year and on the first pay in December of each year, regular part-time and temporary Employees shall be paid six percent (6%), eight percent (8%) or ten percent (10%), or twelve percent (12%) of their gross regular earnings (excluding overtime, call back and premiums), whichever is applicable depending on vacation entitlement, in the previous six (6) months period or from date of employment, in lieu of annual vacation.  Upon termination prior to the first pay in June, or upon appointment to a permanent full-time position, Employees shall be paid for earned but unpaid vacation entitlements.  Percentage entitlement shall be based on years of continuous service based on Article 14.03.
    2. Regular part-time and temporary Employees shall earn supplementary vacation pay calculated in accordance with the following formula:
       1. upon reaching the employment anniversary of twenty-five (25) years of continuous service, employees shall have earned an additional two percent (2%) for that anniversary year;
       2. upon reaching the employment anniversary of thirty (30) years of continuous service, employees shall have earned an additional two percent (2%) for that anniversary year;
       3. upon reaching the employment anniversary of thirty-five (35) years of continuous service, employees shall have earned an additional two percent (2%) for that anniversary year;
       4. upon reaching the employment anniversary of forty (40) years of continuous service, employees shall have earned an additional two percent (2%) for that anniversary year.
    3. After twelve (12) months of continuous service, regular part-time and temporary Employees shall be entitled to annual vacation without pay equal to the vacation percentage entitlement set out under Article 34.11(a) above. For the purposes of calculating the inclusive dates of annual vacation, one (1) week of annual vacation will be reported as seven (7) consecutive calendar days.  Vacation leave will be deemed to have commenced on the first (1st) regularly scheduled work day absent on vacation leave.  Application and approval of vacation shall be in accordance with Article 14.
    4. Casual Employees shall be paid on each pay cheque six percent (6%) of their gross regular earnings (excluding overtime and premiums) in lieu of annual vacation.
12. Sick Leave
    1. Regular part-time and temporary Employees shall accrue sick leave credits at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) days per calendar month prorated to the number of hours the Employee worked during each calendar month to a maximum accumulation of one hundred and twenty (120) working days.
    2. Employees must observe the regulations outlined in Article 16.03 of this agreement to be entitled to available sick leave benefits.
    3. Payment from sick leave banks will be made based on posted scheduled hours of work only for days on which Employees are required to work but cannot attend due to illness.  If the Employee’s illness continues beyond their posted scheduled hours of work, payment from the sick leave banks will be based on the weekly average number of hours worked by the Employee in the two (2) calendar week period immediately preceding their sick absence.
    4. A regular part-time or temporary Employee who transfers to a regular full-time position shall be placed on the sick leave plan set out under Article 16.05 based on their years of service as set out under Article 2.09.
    5. Upon termination of employment, all accumulated sick leave benefits shall be cancelled and no payment shall be due therefore.
13. Pension
    
    Other than full-time Employees are eligible to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan subject to plan eligibility rules.