Covenant Health Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 12: Overtime

1. Overtime is all time authorized by the Employer and worked by an Employee in excess of seven and three-quarter (7 3/4) hours or their regularly scheduled shift (whichever is greater) or on scheduled days of rest. 

2. The Employer shall designate an individual who may authorize overtime.

3. Authorization for overtime after the fact by the Employer shall not be unreasonably denied where overtime arises as a result of unforeseeable circumstances in which it is impossible to obtain prior authorization.

4. Overtime will be paid in accordance with the following:

   1. For work in excess of seven and three-quarter (7 3/4) hours or their regularly scheduled shift (whichever is greater), two times (2X) their Basic Rate of Pay, exclusive of meal periods, if taken. This overtime payment will cease and the Employee’s Basic Rate of Pay will apply at the start of the next regularly scheduled shift.

   2. For work on scheduled day(s) of rest, two times (2X) their Basic Rate of Pay. This overtime payment will cease and the Employee’s Basic Rate of Pay will apply at the start of their next scheduled shift.

   3. Overtime worked immediately following or immediately preceding an Employee’s scheduled shift will be paid at two times (2X) the Employee’s Basic Rate of Pay. This overtime payment will cease and the Employee’s Basic Rate of Pay will apply at the start of the next regular working period.

5. An Employee who normally returns to their place of residence by means of public transportation following the completion of their regularly scheduled shift, but who is prevented from doing so by being required to remain on duty longer than such shift and past the time when normal public transportation is available, shall be reimbursed for the cost of reasonable, necessary and substantiated transportation expense to their place of residence.

6. Subject to mutual agreement between the Employer and an Employee, the Employee may be granted time off duty in lieu of overtime payments.

   1. Unless mutual agreement between an Employee and the Employer is reached as to when accumulated overtime will be taken as time off in lieu of overtime payment, overtime banks shall be paid out in the first full pay period after March 1 every year.

   2. If an Employee chooses to bank overtime, such lieu time shall be banked at one times (1X) their Basic Rate of Pay, and they shall be paid out at one times (1X) their Basic Rate of Pay.

   3. Lieu time banks shall not exceed forty-eight (48) hours at any given time.

7.  

   1. Except in cases of emergency, no Employee shall be required or permitted to work more than a total of sixteen (16) hours (inclusive of regular and overtime hours) in a twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at the first (1st) hour the Employee reports for work.

   2. Article 12.07(a) shall have no applicability to EMS Employees who are covered under the provisions of Article 10.08 of the EMS Local Conditions.

8.  

   1. Rest periods and meal periods shall be provided in accordance with Article 10.02.

   2. Article 12.08(a) shall have no applicability to EMS Employees who are covered under the provisions of Article 10 of the EMS Local Conditions.

9. An Employee who works more than four (4) hours of overtime immediately following a shift shall be provided with access to a meal at no cost. If meals are not available on Site, the Employee is eligible for reimbursement for their meal in accordance with the amounts and times set out in Article 20.05(a).