East Central Ambulance Association Collective Agreement 2025 - 2028

Article 9: Hours of Work

1. A shift consists of a twenty-four (24) hour period during which an Employee is assigned, based on a core flex schedule, to work or required to be available for call back to work.
2. Regular Work Schedules will consist of four (4) days on and four (4) days off.
   1. Consort work schedule will consist of seven (7) days on and seven (7) days off.
3. Annual hours of work for an Employee working a core flex schedule are two thousand one hundred and ninety (2190) hours per year as per 9.05.
4. Employees will be scheduled based on a core flex scheduling provision as follows:
   1. Each twenty-four (24) hour Core Flex shift shall consist of twelve (12) hours per shift compensated at the Basic Rate of Pay which is made up of three (3) “core hours” nine (9) “flex hours” and twelve (12) on-call hours which are compensated at an on-call rate of pay of three dollars and thirty cents ($3.30) per hour.
   2. An Employee who works in excess of twelve (12) hours of active duty shall be compensated at the overtime rate of pay referenced in Article 10.
   3. The Employees will be available to meet a seven (7) minute chute time during core, flex and on-call hours.
   4. During any period of active duty, the on-call rate shall cease and shall resume upon the completion of “Active Duty”.
5. The Employer shall endeavor to ensure that Employees do not work more than fourteen (14) hours in a twenty-four (24) period. An Employee who is required to work more than fourteen (14) hours in a twenty-four (24) period shall be entitled to ten (10) consecutive hours of rest prior to commencing their next scheduled shift without loss of regular earnings.
6. On each occasion that an Employee is recalled to duty during their On-Call period, the Employee shall receive pay for all hours worked during the on-call period, or for two (2) hours, whichever is greater. 

7. Employees assigned to a shift must remain in fit condition to return to work at any time during that shift.

8. Employees assigned to a shift must remain in fit condition to return to work at any time during that shift.

   1. Employees submit the request, giving reasonable notice; and
   2. ECAA approves the exchange; and
   3. operational efficiency is not disrupted; and
   4. there is no increased cost to ECAA, including overtime.
9. On the date fixed by proclamation, in accordance with the Daylight Saving Time Act, of conversion to Mountain Standard Time, regular hours of work shall be extended to include the resultant additional one (1) hour with additional payment due. On the date fixed by said Act for the resumption of Daylight Savings Time, the resultant reduction of one (1) hour in the shift involved shall be effected with the appropriate deduction in regular earnings.
10. Changes to Shift Schedules
    ECAA may implement new or revised regular shift schedules provided it gives HSAA sixty (60) days’ notice of its intention to do so, along with a description of the terms and conditions under which the new regular work schedule will operate.

11. Weekend Premiums
    A weekend premium of three dollars and twenty-five cents ($3.25) per hour shall be paid for all active duty hours which fall within the sixty-four (64) hour period commencing at fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday to zero seven hundred (0700) hours on Monday.

    Weekend premiums shall not be considered part of the basic hourly rate of pay.