Covenant Health Collective Agreement 2024-2028

Article 16: Shift Differential And Weekend Premium

1. Shift Differential
   1. An evening shift differential of two dollars and seventy-five cents ($2.75) per hour shall be paid to:
      1. Employees working a shift wherein the majority of the hours of such shift falls within the period fifteen hundred (1500) hours to twenty-three hundred (2300) hours; or
      2. Employees for each regularly scheduled hour worked between fifteen hundred (1500) hours to twenty-three hundred (2300) hours provided that greater than two (2) hours are worked between fifteen hundred (1500) hours and twenty-three hundred (2300) hours; or
      3. Employees for all overtime hours worked which fall within the period of fifteen hundred (1500) hours and twenty-three hundred (2300) hours.

   2. A night shift differential of five dollars ($5.00) per hour shall be paid to:

      1. Employees working a shift wherein the majority of such shift falls within the period twenty-three hundred (2300) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours; or

      2. Employees for each regularly scheduled hour worked between twenty-three hundred (2300) hours to zero seven hundred (0700) hours provided that greater than two (2) hours are worked within twenty-three hundred (2300) hours and zero seven hundred (0700) hours; or

      3. Employees for all overtime hours worked which fall within the period of twenty-three hundred (2300) hours and zero seven hundred (0700) hours.

   3. Shift differential shall not be considered part of the basic hourly rate of pay.

2. Weekend Premium

   1. A weekend premium of three dollars and twenty-five cents (3.25) per hour shall be paid:

      1. to Employees working a shift wherein the majority of such shift falls within a sixty-four (64) hour period commencing fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday; or

      2. to Employees working each regularly scheduled hour worked after fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday provided greater than two (2) hours are worked within a sixty-four (64) hour period commencing at fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday; or

      3. to Employees working all overtime hours which fall within the sixty-four (64) hour period commencing at fifteen hundred (1500) hours on a Friday.

   2. Where applicable, shift differential and weekend premium will be stacked.