4.01       For all employee's eight [8] hours shall constitute a days work and five [5] days, namely forty [40] hours, Monday through Friday inclusive, shall constitute a weeks work. An employee who is ordered to work for less than eight [8] hours per day or forty [40] hours per week shall be considered as temporarily laid off.

4.02       The Company and the Union are agreed that the five [5] days work in each week shall be consecutive in accordance with the foregoing, subject only to circumstances in the Company's business making it necessary that the five [5] days work in the case of any employee be not consecutive. Provided, if subject to the aforementioned circumstances an employee is required to work a regular shift on Saturday, that he be given a pre- arranged regular day off during the following week, and further provided that if the said employee is required to work on such pre-arranged regular day off he shall be paid at the rate of double time.
(Refer also to Letter of Understanding No.1)

4.03       Notification of shift schedule will be given no later than Wednesday for the week following. However, such schedule may be altered up to shift quitting time on Friday.

4.04       Employees must be notified before quitting time if they are not to report for work the next day. If they are not notified and report for work, then they shall be paid for the whole day.

OVERTIME

4.05       Employees shall not be compelled to work overtime, but may volunteer to do so.

4.06       All overtime shall be calculated at double time, with no pyramiding, except for triple time as provided in Article 4.08.

4.07       The following work shall be considered overtime:

1. Work performed in excess of eight [8] hours on any regular working day;
   
   
2. Work performed prior to scheduled starting time;
   
   
3. Work performed after scheduled quitting time;
   
   
4. Work performed on Sundays;
   
   
5. Work performed on statutory holidays.

SUNDAY TIME

4.08       For all work performed up to eight [8] hours on Sundays, the premium rate of double time shall be paid to all employee's. All work performed over eight [8] hours on Sunday shall be paid for at the rate of triple time.

SHIFT CHANGES

4.09       An employee will be paid at overtime rates for all time worked before his regular starting time or time worked after his regular quitting time. If the change in time occurred under any of the following conditions such overtime will be paid for the balance of the week in which the change occurred:

1. His job or his starting time is changed by the Company after the employees' quitting time Friday;
   
   
2. He was asked by the Company to relieve another employee who was unavailable or any change in starting time as per Wednesday shift schedule.

4.10       An employee will not be entitled to overtime for a change in his regular starting time or for work past his regular quitting time if the change occurred for any of the following reasons:

1. The employee has changed a job at his own request;
   
   
2. The changed job is a promotion, a bumping, or a training position;
   
   
3. The employee is returning to his customary job.
   
   
4. The change occurs as a result of equipment breakdown.

OVERTIME MEAL ALLOWANCE

4.11       In the event overtime is to be worked without notice being given the previous day and the period of overtime is to be more than two [2] hours in duration, then the Company agrees to provide the cost of a meal for all employee's working such overtime up to a maximum of nine [$9.00] dollars.

CALL OUT

4.12       Employee's called out for work for less than a half day shall receive not less than one-half days wages.

4.13       If an employee is called into work for less than eight [8] hours, but more than four [4] hours, he shall be paid for eight 8 hours at straight time. This provision will not apply to a situation where an employee is receiving overtime or premium pay. If the employee has completed his regular work prior to the expiry of eight [8] hours, then in order to claim the eight [8] hours pay, he must be prepared to accept other work, such as warehouse or cleanup.

4.14       Any employee called back for emergency purposes shall receive not less than four [4] hours pay at the prevailing rate.