Common use of Extended Tours Clause in Contracts

Extended Tours. (a) Extended tours shall be introduced into any unit when, i) seventy (70%) percent of the nurses in the unit so indicate by secret ballot, and ii) the Hospital agrees to implement the compressed work week, such agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or arbitrary manner. (b) A compressed work week may be discontinued in any unit when: i) fifty (50%) percent of the nurses in the unit so indicate by secret ballot; or ii) the Hospital because of A) adverse effects on patient care, B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary, states its intention to discontinue the compressed work week in the schedule; (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (2) above, then: i) the parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the compressed work week will be discontinued, affected employees shall be given sixty (60) days notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) Scheduling regulations for extended tours shall be as follows: i) Not more than three (3) extended tours may be scheduled. Following three (3) consecutive tours, employees shall have two (2) days off duty. ii) The maximum number of tours worked in any given seven (7) day period shall be five (5). iii) The Employer will endeavour to schedule alternate weekends off but at least two (2) weekends off in four (4) will be scheduled. Failure to abide by the above scheduling regulations shall result in premium payment being paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.03.

Extended Tours. Introduction and discontinuation of a compressed work week (extended tour) (a) Extended tours A compressed work week shall be introduced into any unit when,: i) seventy eighty per cent (7080%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit so indicate by secret ballot, ; and ii) the Hospital Alliance agrees to implement the compressed work week, such agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or unreasonably arbitrary manner. (b) A compressed work week may be discontinued in any unit when: i) fifty per cent (50%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit so indicate by secret ballot; or ii) the Hospital Alliance because of A) adverse effects on patient care, B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or, C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary, cost of staffing utilizing extended tours being appreciably greater than staffing utilizing a 7.5 hour tour rotation. states its intention to discontinue the compressed work week in the schedule;. (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (2) above, then: i) the parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the compressed work week will be discontinued, affected employees shall be given sixty (60) days notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) Scheduling regulations for extended tours If full-time lines are scheduled a combination of seven and one half (7.50) hour and eleven and one quarter (11.25) hour shifts, they shall not be as follows: i) Not scheduled more than three thirty-seven and one half (3) extended tours may be scheduled. Following three (3) consecutive tours, employees shall have two (2) days off duty. ii) The maximum number of tours worked in any given seven (7) day period shall be five (5). iii) The Employer will endeavour to schedule alternate weekends off but at least two (2) weekends off in four (4) will be scheduled. Failure to abide by the above scheduling regulations shall result in premium payment being paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.03.37

Extended Tours. (a) Extended tours shall will be introduced into implemented in the Hospital (or within any unit unit) when,: i) seventy at least eighty percent (7080%) percent of the full- time and part time nurses working in the unit so Hospital (or within any unit) indicate by secret ballot, ballot that they wish extended tours; and ii) the Hospital agrees to implement the compressed work week, agrees; it being understood that such agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or unreasonably arbitrary manner; and iii) the Director of Employment Standards Branch of the Ministry of Labour gives approval. (b) A compressed work week may Extended tours will be discontinued in any unit whendiscontinued: i) fifty at any time after six (506) months of the implementation of such tours if at least fifty-one percent (51%) percent of the nurses involved indicate in the unit so indicate by a secret ballotballot that they no longer wish to work extended tours; or ii) by the Hospital because of: A) adverse effects on patient care,; or B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, schedules; or C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary, states its intention to discontinue the compressed work week in the schedule;. (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (2b) above, then: i) the parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the compressed work week will be discontinued, affected employees nurses shall be given sixty (60) days notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) Scheduling regulations for Nurses who work extended tours shall be as follows:scheduled off at least every second weekend, unless mutually agreed otherwise. i(e) Not No more than three (3) consecutive extended tours may shall be scheduled, unless by mutual agreement. Following three If a nurse is scheduled to work on a fourth (34th) consecutive and subsequent tour, she/he will receive premium pay for each tour so worked until a day off is scheduled. (f) Part-time nurses who work both seven and one-half (7 ½) hour and extended tours, employees shall have two (2) days off duty. ii) The maximum number of tours worked not be scheduled to work in any given seven (7) day period shall be five (5). iii) The Employer will endeavour to schedule alternate weekends off but at least two (2) weekends off in combination more than four (4) consecutive tours. If a nurse is scheduled to work on a fifth (5th) consecutive and subsequent tour, she/he will be receive premium pay for each tour so worked until a day off is scheduled. Failure to abide by the above scheduling regulations shall result in premium payment being paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.03.

Extended Tours. Introduction and discontinuation of a compressed work week (extended tour) When the Hospital and the Union agree to implement Extended Tours on a particular unit, they shall do so according to the following criteria; (a) Extended tours A compressed work week shall be introduced into any unit when,: i) seventy eighty percent (7080%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit so indicate by secret ballot, ; and ii) the Hospital Alliance agrees to implement the compressed work week, such agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or unreasonably arbitrary manner. (b) A compressed work week may be discontinued in any unit when: i) fifty percent (50%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit so indicate by secret ballot; or ii) the Hospital Alliance because of A) adverse effects on patient care, B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or, C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary, cost of staffing utilizing extended tours being appreciably greater than staffing utilizing a 7.5 hour tour rotation. states its intention to discontinue the compressed work week in the schedule;. (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (2) above, then: i) the parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the compressed work week will be discontinued, affected employees shall be given sixty (60) days notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) Scheduling regulations for extended tours If full-time lines are scheduled a combination of seven and one half (7.50) hour and eleven and one quarter (11.25) hour shifts, they shall not be as follows: i) Not scheduled more than three thirty-seven and one half (3) extended tours may be scheduled. Following three (3) consecutive tours, employees shall have two (2) days off duty. ii) The maximum number of tours worked in any given seven (7) day period shall be five (5). iii) The Employer will endeavour to schedule alternate weekends off but at least two (2) weekends off in four (4) will be scheduled. Failure to abide by the above scheduling regulations shall result in premium payment being paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.03.37

Extended Tours. (a) Extended tours shall be introduced into any unit unit, on a trial basis for a period of not less than six (6) months (or such longer period of time as the Employer and the Union may mutually agree upon) when,: i) seventy percent (70%) percent of the nurses in Employees (including both full-time and part-time) assigned to the unit Home so indicate by secret ballot, and (b) Extended tours shall be continued in any Home beyond the trial period referred to in Article 15.07 (a) when: i) seventy percent (70%) of the Employees (including both full-time and part-time) assigned to the Home so indicate by secret ballot, such ballot to be held in the third last week of the trial period referred to in Article 15.02 (a), and ii) the Hospital Employer agrees to implement continue the compressed work week, such . Such agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or arbitrary manner. (bc) A compressed work week may be discontinued in any unit Home when: i) fifty seventy per cent (5070%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit Home so indicate by secret ballot; or ii) the Hospital Management because of A) adverse effects on patient care, B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or, C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary, cost of staffing utilizing extended tours being appreciably greater than staffing utilizing a 7.5 hour tour rotation. states its intention to discontinue the compressed work week in the schedule;. (cd) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party the Union or the Management in accordance with paragraph (2) above, then: i) the parties Union representatives and the Management shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the compressed work week will be discontinued, affected employees shall be given sixty (60) days notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) Scheduling regulations for extended tours shall be as follows: i) Not more than three (3) extended tours may be scheduled. Following three (3) consecutive tours, employees shall have two (2) days off duty. ii) The maximum number of tours worked in any given seven (7) day period shall be five (5). iii) The Employer will endeavour to schedule alternate weekends off but at least two (2) weekends off in four (4) will be scheduled. Failure to abide by the above scheduling regulations shall result in premium payment being paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.03.two

Extended Tours. (a) Extended tours shall be introduced into any unit when,: i) seventy eighty (7080%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit so indicate by secret ballot, and ii) the Hospital agrees to implement the compressed work week, ; such agreement shall not be withheld in an unreasonable or arbitrary manner. (b) A compressed work week may be discontinued in any unit when: i) fifty (50%) percent of the nurses employees in the unit so indicate by secret ballot; or ii) the Hospital because of (A) adverse effects on patient care, (B) inability to provide a workable staffing schedule, or (C) where the Hospital wishes to do so for other reasons which are neither unreasonable nor arbitrary, states its intention to discontinue the compressed work week in the schedule;. (c) When notice of discontinuation is given by either party in accordance with paragraph (2) above, then: i) the parties shall meet within two (2) weeks of the giving of notice to review the request for discontinuation; and ii) where it is determined that the compressed work week will be discontinued, affected employees shall be given sixty (60) days notice before the schedules are so amended. (d) Scheduling regulations for extended tours shall be as follows: i) Not No more than three (3) extended tours may shall be scheduled. Following three (3) consecutive tours, employees shall have two (2) days off duty.scheduled without a day off; ii) The maximum number of Employees working extended tours worked in any given seven (7) day period shall be five (5)off every other weekend; failure to provide every other weekend off will result in the employee receiving premium payment for such second and subsequent consecutive weekends worked until a weekend off is provided. iii) The Employer will endeavour to schedule alternate weekends A weekend off but shall be defined as at least seventy-two (272) weekends consecutive hours scheduled off in four (4duty following the completion of the Thursday night tour or the Friday day tour. iv) will Employees shall be scheduled. Failure allowed to abide by the above scheduling regulations shall result in premium payment being paid in accordance with the provisions of exchange tours subject to Article 14.03.H.