Common use of Reduced Work Arrangements Clause in Contracts

Reduced Work Arrangements. (a) Subject to operational requirements, the Employer will consider employee proposals for reduced work arrangements whereby employees can work a minimum of 80% and a maximum of 95% of the weekly hours of work of a comparable full time position. The employee’s rate of pay will be adjusted accordingly. (b) All reduced work arrangements shall be subject to approval of the Employer and the Institute and must be confirmed in writing to the employee requesting such an arrangement prior to the commencement of such reduced work. (c) All reduced work arrangements shall be for an initial period of one year and are renewable annually. The parties make no commitment that the arrangement will be renewed. Where the Employer does not wish to renew the arrangement, the employee will be provided with a minimum six (6) week notice period. (d) The terms and conditions of the Collective Agreement applicable to full time employees shall apply except as hereafter modified: i) Leaves - all leave entitlements, except bereavement, shall be pro-rated to reflect the employee’s weekly hours of work under the reduced arrangement in relation to the normal full time hours of work. Bereavement leave is not pro-rated and employees remain entitled to the number of days as described in Article 10 based on their reduced daily entitlement; ii) OMERS - The Employer and the employee contributions are reduced to reflect the modified earnings of the employee. All other pension contributions are in accordance with the OMERS rules; iii) Insured Benefits - The Employer shall continue to share the cost of benefit programs as described in Article 21. All insured benefits shall remain unchanged except for Long Term Disability and Life Insurance which will be reduced to reflect the employee’s reduced earnings; iv) Service - service for the purposes of increments shall continue to accrue without modification during the arrangement v) Statutory Holidays – Employees will receive 4.4% of their regular (reduced) earnings on a bi-weekly basis in lieu of statutory and declared holidays.

Reduced Work Arrangements. (a) Subject to operational requirements, the Employer will consider employee proposals for reduced work arrangements whereby employees can work a minimum of 80% and a maximum of 95% of the weekly hours of work of a comparable full time position. The employee’s rate of pay will be adjusted accordingly. (b) All reduced work arrangements shall be subject to approval of the Employer and the Institute and must be confirmed in writing to the employee requesting such an arrangement prior to the commencement of such reduced work. (c) All reduced work arrangements shall be for an initial period of one year and are renewable annually. The annually but the parties make no commitment that the arrangement will be renewed. Where the Employer does not wish to renew the arrangement, the employee will be provided with a minimum six (6) week notice period. (d) The terms and conditions of the Collective Agreement collective agreement applicable to full time employees shall apply except as hereafter modified: i) Leaves - all leave entitlements, except bereavement, shall be pro-pro- rated to reflect the employee’s weekly hours of work under the reduced arrangement in relation to the normal full time hours of work. Bereavement leave is not pro-rated and employees remain entitled to the number of days as described in Article 10 based on their reduced daily entitlement; ii) OMERS - The Employer and the employee contributions are reduced to reflect the modified earnings of the employee. All other pension contributions are in accordance with the OMERS rules; iii) Insured Benefits - The Employer shall continue to share the cost of benefit programs as described in Article 21. All insured benefits shall remain unchanged except for Long Term Disability and Life Insurance which will be reduced to reflect the employee’s reduced earnings; iv) Service - service for the purposes of increments shall continue to accrue without modification during the arrangement v) Statutory Holidays – Employees will receive 4.4% of their regular (reduced) earnings on a bi-weekly basis in lieu of statutory and declared holidays.