| What’s
at stake? Key bargaining issues.
#4 – Hours of Work
This covers a lot of different issues – that have a different
impact on different groups of our members.
Overtime
Clerical and drafting staff
will get paid overtime after working 36 1/4 hours in a week, but
everyone else will have to work more than 44 hours to collect premium
pay.
To make that 44 hours of work even more onerous, time spent
travelling doesn’t count toward the 44 hours. So if you had 10 hours
of travel time in a week, you wouldn’t collect overtime until after
55 hours! (You would get straight time for the 10 hours travelling,
but it is still cutting heavily into your personal time without
adequate compensation.)
Compressed work week
We want to be able to arrange
compressed work weeks and flexible hours where it would work to
members’ advantage. OPAC refuses to allow this flexibility.
Changing days and hours
OPAC wants the unilateral right
to change the days you work, and your hours of work each day. This
would allow them to schedule you to work Saturday through Wednesday,
with Thursday and Friday off. They could schedule you to work from 2
p.m. to 10 p.m. on those days.
You would have no right to grieve and no recourse.
Statutory holidays
OPAC wants two of the statutory
holidays (Remembrance Day and Easter Monday) to be floaters, but here’s
the pinch: THEY would decide when you would take them.
They also refuse to give us contract language to provide an
alternate day off if a statutory holiday falls on a non-working day
(currently Saturday or Sunday, but as you can see from the section
above, that could change too.)
Days off
OPAC refuses language to
guarantee two consecutive days off every week.
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