Common use of Rostering Arrangements Clause in Contracts

Rostering Arrangements. 4.1. A roster is a collection of shifts worked, maintaining an average of 38 hours per week for full-time employees. 4.2. In accordance with rostering arrangements in place for each correctional facility as at 1 April 2016, rosters for Correctional Health Services employees will range from one to 30 weeks long but have an average of 38 hours per week over the life of the roster. 4.3. By consultation and mutual agreement, flexible rostering practices may be included in rosters to allow for shifts of varying lengths of between four and 12 hours. 4.4. Any Correctional Health Services employee may be required to work reasonable time in excess of ordinary hours. 4.5. A Correctional Health Services employee will not perform more than 16 hours of consecutive duty inclusive of overtime. Overtime in combination with a 12 hour ordinary shift should be worked in exceptional circumstances only. 4.6. A Correctional Health Services employee who works a shift of 12 ordinary hours is entitled to two paid meal breaks, each of 30 minutes duration. The first meal break is to occur between the third and sixth hours of duty and the second meal break is to occur no later than the tenth hour of duty. 4.7. A Correctional Health Services employee in receipt of the aggregated shift allowance or who is a shift worker whose hours of work are regularly rotated in accordance with a shift roster covering two or more shifts per day will be paid for all overtime at the rate of double time. Overtime will be paid on the employee’s base rate 4.8. For a casual employee an ordinary shift is to be no more than 12 hours. 4.9. A Correctional Health Services employee engaged in 12 hour shift arrangements is entitled to a ten hour break between the end of an ordinary rostered shift and the beginning of the next ordinary rostered shift except in emergent circumstances where the minimum will be eight hours.