Notwithstanding the General Provisions of this collective agreement, the
following specific provisions shall apply to employees performing duties in the
Firefighters Group.
General
Interpretation and Definitions:
(a) "daily rate of pay" means an employee's annual rate of
pay divided by the number of working days in his or her annual work schedule;
(b) "hourly rate of pay" means a full-time employee's weekly
rate of pay divided by forty-two (42), except that for an employee who is
employed as a fire chief, deputy chief, fire prevention officer or a fire
prevention inspector "hourly rate of pay" means that employee's weekly
rate of pay divided by thirty-seven decimal five (37.5).
(c) "With respect to the application of clause 52.02 - Personal Leave
and clause 41.01 - Volunteer Leave, for firefighters where the standard work
week is forty-two (42) hours, the reference to a single period shall be "up
to eight point four (8.4) hours".
Vacation Leave
**
1.01 Accumulation of Vacation Leave
(a) An employee whose work schedule requires two thousand one hundred
eighty-four (2184) hours per year, and who has earned pay for at least eighty
(80) hours for each calendar month of a fiscal year, shall earn vacation leave
at the following rates:
(i) eleven (11) hours per month if the employee has completed less than
eight (8) years of service;
(ii) if the employee has received, or is eligible to receive, furlough
leave,
(A) fourteen (14) hours per month if the employee has completed eight (8)
but less than twenty (20) years of service,
(B) fourteen (14) hours per month if the employee has completed twenty
(20) but less than twenty-five (25) years of service,
and
(C) eighteen (18) hours per month if the employee has completed
twenty-five (25) years of service;
(iii) fourteen (14) hours per month if the employee has completed between
eight (8) and sixteen (16) years of service and has not received, or is
eligible but has elected not to receive, or is not eligible to receive
furlough leave;
(iv) fifteen decimal six (15.6) hours month after the employee has
completed sixteen (16) years of service;
(v) sixteen decimal four (16.4) hours per month after the employee has
completed seventeen (17) years of service;
(vi) eighteen (18) hours per month after the employee has completed
eighteen (18) years of service;
(vii) nineteen (19) hours per month after the employee has completed
twenty-seven (27) years of service;
(viii) twenty-one (21) hours per month after the employee has completed
twenty-eight (28) years of service;
(b) Any other employee who has earned pay for at least seventy-five (75)
hours for each calendar month of a fiscal year shall earn vacation leave in
accordance with clause 35.02.1.
(c) for the purpose of clause 1.01 only, all service within the Public
Service, whether continuous or discontinuous, shall count toward vacation leave
except where a person who, on leaving the Public Service, takes or has taken
severance pay. However, the above exception shall not apply to an employee who
receives severance pay on lay-off and is reappointed to the Public Service
within one (1) year following the date of lay-off.
**
1.02 With respect to the application of clause 35.02.2, for
firefighters where the standard work week is forty-two (42) hours the
entitlement is forty-two (42) hours of vacation leave with pay.
Hours of Work and Overtime
2.01 Hours of Work
When hours of work are scheduled for employees they shall be scheduled so
that employees work an average of forty-two (42) hours per week over the life of
their schedule.
2.02 Clause 2.01 shall not apply and Article 28 shall apply to an
employee who is employed as a fire chief, deputy chief, fire prevention officer
or a fire prevention inspector. The scheduled hours of work for such employees
shall be thirty-seven decimal five (37.5) hours per week exclusive of meal
breaks.
General
2.03 An employee's scheduled hours of work shall not be construed as
guaranteeing the employee minimum or maximum hours of work.
2.04
(a) The scheduling of hours of work and the establishment of shift schedules
shall be done by the Employer. A shift schedule shall be established for, and
posted in each Fire Hall.
(b) The Employer agrees that no shift schedule shall provide for split
shifts.
2.05
(a) The Employer shall post a duty roster in each Fire Hall eight (8) days in
advance. If, as a result of a change in a duty roster, an employee is
transferred to another platoon on less than ninety-six (96) hours' notice in
advance of the starting time of the first (1st) shift of the
employee's new platoon, the employee shall be paid at the rate of time and
one-half (1 1/2) for the first (1st) shift worked in the schedule of
the employee's new platoon. Subsequent shifts worked on the schedule of the
employee's new platoon shall be paid for at the employee's hourly rate of pay.
(b) Sub-clause 2.05(a) shall not apply to an employee when the employee is
returned to the employee's regular platoon following a temporary assignment to a
new platoon.
(c) Provided sufficient advance notice is given and with the approval of the
Employer, employees may exchange shifts if there is no increase in cost to the
Employer.
2.06 Assignment of Overtime Work
Subject to the operational requirements of the service, the Employer shall
make every reasonable effort:
(a) to allocate overtime work on an equitable basis among readily available
qualified employees,
and
(b) to give employees who are required to work overtime adequate advance
notice of this requirement.
2.07 The Alliance is entitled to consult with the deputy minister or
the Deputy Head's representative whenever it is alleged that employees are
required to work unreasonable amounts of overtime.
2.08 Overtime Compensation
(a) Except as provided in sub-clause 2.08(b) and subject to clause 2.10, an
employee is entitled to time and one-half (1 1/2) compensation for each hour of
overtime worked by the employee. When an employee is required to work overtime
immediately following their scheduled shift, or on a day of rest, or designated
paid holiday, which extends into his or her next scheduled shift, the employee
will continue to be compensated at the applicable overtime rate until he or she
has had a break of at least eight (8) hours.
(b) Subject to clause 2.10, an employee who is employed as fire chief, deputy
chief, fire prevention officer or fire prevention inspector who is required to
work overtime on the employee's scheduled work day is entitled to compensation
at the employee's hourly rate of pay for the first one-half (1/2) hour of
overtime worked by the employee and at time and one-half (1 1/2) for all
overtime hours worked by the employee in excess of the first one-half (1/2) hour
of overtime in each work day.
(c) Compensation earned under this Article shall be compensated in accordance
with Article 62.
2.09 Subject to clause 2.10, an employee is entitled to double (2)
time compensation for each hour of overtime worked by the employee on the
employee's second (2nd) or subsequent day of rest, provided the days
of rest are consecutive and contiguous.
2.10 An employee is entitled to overtime compensation for each
completed fifteen (15) minute period of overtime worked by the employee.
2.11 Except when a free meal can be provided:
(a) An employee who has not received at least twelve (12) hours advanced
notice of an overtime requirement and who works three (3) or more consecutive
hours of overtime immediately following the employee's scheduled hours of work
shall be paid a meal allowance in the amount of ten dollars ($10). When
continuous overtime extends beyond seven (7) hours, a second (2nd)
meal allowance in the amount of ten dollars ($10) shall be provided. Only two
(2) meals shall be provided in one overtime shift, except when an overtime
period in excess of three (3) hours immediately precedes an employee's scheduled
hours of work, a meal allowance in the amount of ten dollars ($10) shall be
paid. Consecutive overtime shifts shall be construed as following scheduled
hours of work.
(b) Reasonable time to be determined by the Employer shall be allowed the
employee in order that the employee may take a meal break.
Sick Leave With Pay
**
3.01 Credits
(a) An employee whose work schedule requires two thousand one hundred
eighty-four (2184) hours per year shall earn credits at the rate of eleven (11)
hours per month for each calendar month for which the employee earns pay for at
least eighty (80) hours.
(b) An employee subject to clause 2.01 of this Appendix shall earn additional
sick leave credits at the rate of one (1) hour for each calendar month during
which he or she works shifts and he or she receives pay for at least the period
identified in (a) or (b) above. Such credits shall not be carried over in the
next fiscal year and are available only if the employee has already used all
earned sick leave credits during the current fiscal year.
(c) Any other employee shall earn credits at the rate of ten (10) hours for
each calendar month for which the employee earns pay for at least seventy-five
(75) hours.
Reporting Pay
4.01
(a) When an employee is required to report and reports to work on a day of
rest the employee is entitled to a minimum of three (3) hours' pay at the
applicable overtime rate.
(b) The minimum payment referred to in 4.01(a) above, does not apply to
part-time employees. Part-time employees will receive a minimum payment in
accordance with article 59.05.
4.02 When an employee is required to report and reports to work after
the employee has completed the employee's work for the day and has left the
place of work the employee is entitled to a minimum of two (2) hours' pay at the
hourly rate of pay.
Long Service Pay
5.01 An employee who receives pay for at least eighty-four (84) hours
for each of twelve (12) consecutive calendar months for which the employee is
eligible to receive long service pay, beginning October 1 of each year, is
entitled to be paid, in a lump sum, an amount related to the employee's period
of service in the Public Service set out in the following table:
Period of Service
in the Public Service |
Annual Amount |
5 to 9 years
10 to 14 years
15 to 19 years
20 to 24 years
25 to 29 years
30 years or more |
$740
850
980
1110
1240
1370 |
5.02 An employee who does not receive at least eighty-four (84) hours'
pay for each of twelve (12) consecutive calendar months for which the employee
is eligible to receive long service pay, beginning October 1 of each year, is
entitled to one-twelfth (1/12) of the relevant amount as set out in clause 5.01
for each month for which he/she receives at least eighty-four (84) hours' pay.
5.03 Where an employee does not complete the employee's specified
period of service in the Public Service upon the first (1st) day of a
calendar month, the employee shall, for the purpose of clause 5.01, be deemed to
have completed the specified period of employment:
(a) on the first (1st) day of the current month if the employee
completes the specified period of employment during the first fifteen (15) days
of the month,
and
(b) on the first (1st) day of the subsequent month in any other
case.
Designated Paid Holidays
6.01 Compensation for Designated Paid Holidays
(a) The designated paid holidays in a fiscal year shall be anticipated to the
end of the year and "lieu day" credits established. Each fiscal year
shall be deemed to include eleven (11) designated paid holidays.
(b) Each employee shall select the method of lieu day compensation, which he
or she prefers. Such selection shall be made as of April 1, and shall remain
valid for the following twelve-month (12) period.
(c) The employee shall select one of the following methods of lieu day
compensation:
(i) cash payment;
(ii) compensatory leave;
or
(iii) combination of cash payment and compensatory leave.
(d) The employee shall make such selection known to the Employer and in the
manner required by the Employer.
(e) In the event the employee fails to make the selection referred to above,
the method of compensation shall be determined by the Employer.
(f) An employee who has elected the compensatory leave method shall have his
lieu days scheduled in the fiscal year in which they are credited to him. In
scheduling such lieu days the Employer shall, subject to the operational
requirements of the service:
(i) schedule an employee's lieu days on the dates requested when such a
request is made in writing thirty (30) days in advance;
(ii) schedule any remaining lieu days after consulting with the employee,
if as of October 1 the Employer has been unable to accommodate an employee's
request or no request has been filed; such schedule shall be subject to at
least twenty-eight (28) days' advance notice;
(iii) provide by mutual agreement lieu days requested on shorter notice,
notwithstanding the above.
(g) Lieu days may be granted as an extension to vacation leave or as
occasional days and shall be charged against the lieu day credits on the basis
of one (1) shift for one (1) day.
(h) At the end of each fiscal year, the employee shall be paid in cash for
each unused lieu day at one and one-half (1 1/2) times his daily rate of pay.
High Angle Rescue Allowance
7.01 Employees who obtain and maintain certification in technical
rescue operations and are assigned high angle rescue responsibilities in
situations/incidents, other than rescue operations conducted at fires or
crashes, specifically involving the rescue of individuals trapped beyond the
reach of aerial ladder truck capabilities, on cranes, in Dry Docks or buildings,
shall receive a monthly allowance of seventy-five dollars ($75).
Nuclear Emergency Response Team
7.02 Firefighters working in Firehalls at CFB Esquimalt and CFB
Halifax, who are designated as members of a Nuclear Emergency Response Team, are
trained, maintain their qualifications and are assigned duties, shall receive a
monthly allowance of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150).
A) Effective August 5, 2003
X) Adjustment Effective August 5, 2003
B) Effective August 5, 2004
C) Effective August 5, 2005
D) Effective August 5, 2006
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PAY NOTES
1. The pay increment date for an employee appointed to a position in the
bargaining unit on promotion, demotion, or from outside the Public Service after
November 25, 1977 shall be the first (1st) Monday following the
anniversary of the employee's appointment.
2. The increment period for employees paid in these scales of rates, other
than employees paid in the Recruitment Rate scale of rates, is one (1) year.
3. The increment period for employees paid in the Recruitment Rate scale of
rates is six (6) months.
4. After completing the second (2nd) six (6) months at the
recruitment rate the employee shall be paid at the FR-1 rate then in effect.
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