Carewest Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 2: Definitions

In this Collective Agreement:

1. “Code” means The Labour Relations Code as amended from time to time.
2. “Arbitration” shall take meaning from the section of the Code dealing with the resolution of a difference.
3. “Union” means the Health Sciences Association of Alberta.
4. “Basic Rate of Pay” is the step in the scale applicable to the Employee as set out in the Salaries Appendix inclusive of premium payable in Article 18.01 (Temporary Assignments), but exclusive of all other allowances and premium payments.
5. “Chief Operating Officer” means the senior person responsible to the Board of Carewest.
6. “Employee” means any person employed in the bargaining unit referred to in Article 4.01, or who performs functions of a paramedical professional nature.  It shall further include any person employed in any new classification added to the bargaining unit in the future pursuant to Article 40.
7. All Employees will be designated as follows:
   1. “Regular Employee” is one who works on a full-time or part-time basis on regularly scheduled shifts of a continuing nature:
      1. “full-time Employee” is a regular Employee who works the full specified hours in the Hours of Work Article of this Collective Agreement;
      2. “part-time Employee” is one who works scheduled shifts, whose hours of work are less than those specified in the Hours of Work Article of this Collective Agreement.
   2. “Casual Employee” is a person who:
      1. works on a call-in basis and is not regularly scheduled; or
      2. is regularly scheduled for a period of three (3) months or less for a specific job; or
      3. relieves for an absence the duration of which is three (3) months or less.
   3. “Temporary Employee” is one who is hired on a temporary basis for a full-time or part-time position:
      1. for a specific job of more than three (3) months and less than twelve (12) months; or
      2. to replace a full-time or part-time Employee who is on an approved leave of absence for a period in excess of three (3) months; or
      3. to replace a full-time or part-time Employee who is on a leave due to illness or injury where the Employee on leave has indicated to the Employer that the duration of such leave will be in excess of three (3) months.
8. “Employer” means Carewest.
9. “Facility” means the sites administered by the Employer in this Collective Agreement.
10. “Shift” means a daily tour of duty exclusive of overtime hours.
11. “Month” is the period of time between the date in one month and the preceding date in the following month.
12. Throughout this Collective Agreement, a word used in the singular applies also in the plural and vice versa.
13. “Board” means the Board of Carewest.
14. “Local Unit Representative” means an Employee of the Employer to whom the Union has appointed to represent the membership as part of Union governance as determined by the Union.
15. “Job Steward” means an Employee of the Employer designated by the Union to act in the capacity of a steward to represent individual members in accordance with Article 4.08.