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Content: Shift Cancellation
Agreement: Provincial Agreement 2007-2010
Date: February 2009
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Shift Cancellation
Casual & Part-time nurses must be paid at least 4 hours for any fully or partially cancelled shift.
If you report to work and any part of your shift is cancelled, you must be paid for four hours as “cancellation pay”. If any part of a shift is worked and the balance cancelled, the Employee must be paid the hours worked plus the penalty four hours. If there are less than four hours remaining in the shift, the Employee must be paid for the full hours of the shift.
Examples:
Some Employers have told nurses when they come in that the entire shift is cancelled, but since they have to pay them for four hours anyway, the nurse must work for four hours. WRONG! If they were asked to work part of the shift, they would be paid for the hours worked plus a four-hour penalty, or for the full balance of the shift if it was less than four hours.
If a nurse is sent home after working, for example, 5 hours of a 7 3/4 hour shift, he or she must be paid for the 5 hours worked plus the 2 3/4 hours left in the shift.
If a nurse works just 2 hours of a shift, she or he must be paid for the hours worked plus the four hour penalty.
Article 30.03 (a) iv
(A) In the event that a Casual Employee reports to work as scheduled or called and the Employer cancels the Employee’s Shift, the Employee shall be paid four hours pay at the Employee’s Basic Rate of Pay.
(B) If fewer than four hours remain in the scheduled Shift, the Employee shall be paid for the remaining hours of the Shift at the Employee’s Basic Rate of Pay. This does not apply in situations where the start time of the scheduled Shift has been changed.
UNA Provincial Agreement 2007-2010 , Article 30
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