Siksika Health Services Collective Agreement 2023-2026

Article 12: Hours of Work

Hours of work shall consist of:

1. Regular Shift

   1. Operate under a four (4) platoon system on the basis of two (2) twenty-four (24) hour shifts on duty, followed by six (6) days off (tour of duty).

   2. A shift shall consist of twenty-four (24) hours per shift.

   3. Full-time hours of work for a Regular Employee shall consist of two thousand one hundred and ninety (2190) hours of work in each year of full-time employment. For the purposes of biweekly pay the yearly hours of work as identified in Article 12.01(c) shall include Named Holidays as per Article 19.01(a).

2. Employees may exchange shifts and/or days off with Employees in the same classification provided that:

   1. both affected Employees submit the request give reasonable notice of forty-eight (48) hours or more; and
   2. the Employer approves the exchange; and
   3. operational efficiency is not disrupted; and
   4. there is no increased cost to the Employer.
   5. The shift schedule shall be amended by the Employer to reflect the shifts being exchanged.

   Such approval shall not be unreasonably denied.

3. Employees called in to work and not required to commence work and/or who work two (2) hours or less shall receive a minimum of three (3) hours overtime rates of pay.
4. Where an Employee has worked continuously, without downtime, and is fatigued, the Employee will reach out to the Director of Emergency Services to mutually agree on designated downtime during the shift for fatigue management before returning to active duty, without loss of earnings.
5. Hours of Work shift for a Casual Employee shall be up to twenty-four (24) hours for a shift, and shall be:
   1. A casual Employee may work any of the work shifts and rotations as described in Articles 12.01 at the applicable rates of pay for casual Employees.
   2. Overtime rates of pay shall apply to a casual Employee as applicable to the shift structure worked by the casual Employee when overtime occurs, as defined in Article 13 (Overtime).
6. Schedule Posting and Schedule Changes
   (not applicable to Casual Employees)
   1. Unless otherwise mutually agreed between the Employee and the Employer, or between the Union and the Employer, the shift schedule shall be posted four (4) weeks in advance.
   2. If the Employer changes a shift schedule after the schedule was posted, the affected Employees shall be provided with seven (7) days’ notice of the new Schedule. In the event that an Employee's schedule is changed in the new shift schedule and they are not provided with seven (7) calendar days’ notice, they shall be entitled to overtime for hours worked in the first 48 hour period.
   3. Unless otherwise agreed between the Employee and the Employer, unless an Employee is given at least seven (7) calendar days' notice of a change of scheduled days off, they shall be paid overtime rate of pay as per Article 13 for all hours worked on such day(s) unless such change is at the Employee's request.
7. In the event that an Employee reports for work as scheduled and is required by the Employer not to commence work but to return to duty at a later hour, they shall be compensated for that inconvenience by receiving three (3) hours' pay at their basic rate of pay.
8. Should an Employee report and commence work as scheduled and is required by the Employer to cease work prior to the completion of their scheduled shift and return to work at a later hour, they shall receive their basic hourly rate of pay for all hours worked with an addition of three (3) hours at their basic rate of pay for that inconvenience.