Foothills Regional Emergency Services Commission Collective Agreement 2023-2025

Article 15: Night Shift and Weekend Premium

1. Weekend Premium
   The rates payable under subparagraphs (i) to (iii), below, shall be:
   
   The sum of three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50)per hour shall be paid effective January 1, 2020 until the end of this agreement.
   
   (i) to employees working a shift wherein the majority of such shift falls within a sixty (60) hour period commencing at nineteen hundred (1900) hours on a Friday; or
   
   (ii) to employees working each hour (or portion thereof) during the period of nineteen hundred (1900) hours on a Friday, and zero eight hundred (0700) hours on a Monday; or 
   
   (iii) to employees working all overtime hours which fall within the sixty (60) hour period commencing at nineteen hundred (1900) hours on a Friday.
    
2. Night Shift Premium
   The rates payable under subparagraphs (i) and (ii), below, shall be:
   
   Effective January 1, 2020, the night shift premium shall increase to three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) and remain at that point until the end of this collective Agreement:

(i) to employees for each regularly scheduled hour worked between nineteen hundred (1900) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours provided that greater than two (2) hours are worked within nineteen hundred (1900) hours and zero seven hundred (0700) hours.

(ii) to employees working overtime hours which fall between nineteen hundred (1900) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours.

(b) Night shift and weekend premium shall not be considered part of the basic hourly rate of pay.

(c) Night shift and weekend premium shall be paid in addition to the overtime rate.

(d) Where applicable, night shift and weekend premium will be stacked.