Carewest Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 16: Shift Differential and Weekend Premium

1. Shift Differential
   1. A shift differential of 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 of such shift falls within the period 1500 to 0700 hours; or
      2. Employees for each regularly scheduled hour worked between fifteen hundred (1500) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours provided that greater than two (2) hours are worked between fifteen hundred hours (1500) and zero seven hundred (0700) hours.
   2. Shift differential shall not be considered part of the basic hourly rate of pay.
   3. Shift differential shall be paid in addition to the overtime rate for overtime worked in conjunction with the shift worked in (a) above.
2. Weekend Premium
   1. A weekend premium of three dollars and twenty-five cents ($3.25) per hour shall be paid:
      1. to Employees working a shift wherein the majority of such shift falls within a sixty-four (64) hour period commencing at fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday; or
      2. to Employees working each regularly scheduled hour worked after fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday provided greater than two (2) hours are worked within a sixty-four (64) hour period commencing at fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday; or
      3. to Employees working all overtime hours which fall within the sixty-four (64) hour period commencing at fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday.
3. Where applicable, shift differential and weekend premium will be stacked.