Prairie Emergency Medical Services Inc. Collective Agreement 2020-2025

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Article 14: Core Flex On-Call Duty

  1. The term "on-call duty" shall be deemed to mean any period during which an Employee is not on regular duty, during which the Employee is placed on-call and must be available to respond without undue delay as per company policy to any request to return to duty and shall include Casual employees.
  2. An Employee shall be paid the sum four dollars ($4.00) for every hour of on-call duty.
  3. An Employee who is “called back" after ten (10) hours of work during on-call duty or called back after ten (10) hours of work for emergency coverage, shall be paid for all hours worked during the call-back at two times (2X) the Employee's Basic Rate of Pay.  Should the Employee receive another call-back within two (2) hours, eight (8) minutes of the completion of the first call-back, it shall be considered continuous with the first call-back.  An Employee called back to duty shall be permitted to leave when normal conditions have been restored.