Covenant Health Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 10: Hours Of Work

Note: Article 10 replaced in its entirety for EMS in Local Conditions (Page 163)

1. Regular hours of work for a Full-time Employee, exclusive of meal periods, shall be:

   1. seven and three-quarter (7 3/4) work hours per day; and

   2. an average of seventy-seven and one-half (77 1/2) work hours in a fourteen (14) day period.

2. Meal Periods and Rest Periods

   1. Regular hours of work shall include, as scheduled by the Employer, two (2) rest periods of fifteen (15) minutes during each shift of seven and three-quarter (7 3/4) hours and exclude an unpaid meal period of not less than thirty (30) minutes.

   2. Availability During Meal Periods
      
      When an Employee is required by the Employer to remain readily available for duty during their meal period, they shall be paid for the meal period at their Basic Rate of Pay unless they are permitted to take compensating time off for the full meal period at a later time in the shift. Such paid meal period shall not be included in the calculation of regular hours of work.

   3. Working During Meal and Rest Periods
      
      If an Employee is required to work or is recalled to duty during their meal period or rest period, compensating time off for the full meal period or rest period shall be provided later in the shift, or they shall receive pay for the full meal period or rest period in accordance with the following:

      1. for a rest period, they shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate instead of their Basic Rate of Pay;

      2. for a meal period that they are not required to be readily available pursuant to Article 10.02(b), they shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate;

      3. for a meal period that they are required to be readily available pursuant to Article 10.02(b), they shall be paid the applicable overtime rate instead of their Basic Rate of Pay.

3. Subject to Article 10.02, hours of work shall be consecutive.

4. Modified hours of work may be implemented pursuant to Article 45 where mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union.

5. 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 hour with additional payment due thereof at the applicable overtime rate. On the date fixed by said Act for the resumption of Daylight Saving Time, the resultant reduction of one (1) hour in the shift involved shall be effected with the appropriate deduction in regular earnings.