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.

4.03 - COMPRESSED WORK WEEK

Notwithstanding the other provisions of the Agreement, the parties may develop alternate work week schedules based on customer and operational needs to change an employee's work week from the standard work week above to a flexible work week. It is understood that any such change will be based on operational or customer needs.

4.04       Notification of the 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.

1. The Company shall make available, at the end of each day, the dispatch sheets for the following day.

4.05 - OVERTIME

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

4.06       However, it is agreed that after accepting a delivery assignment, the employee should complete his delivery if still on the road at regular quitting time. Drivers must phone dispatchers for instructions if they are delayed more than twenty [20] minutes in making deliveries.

4.07       All overtime shall be calculated at double time, with no pyramiding, except for triple time as provided in Article 4.10.

4.08       The following work shall be considered overtime:

1. Work performed in excess of regular scheduled shift;
   
   
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 Holiday.

4.09       No employee shall be allowed to work overtime while other employees are receiving less than a regular weeks pay per week in his department.

4.10 - SUNDAY TIME

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 Sundays shall be paid for at the rate of triple time.

4.11 - SHIFT CHANGES

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 employee's 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.

4.12       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.

4.13 - LUNCH BREAKS AND REST PERIODS

All employees shall be entitled to a paid one-half [0.5] hour lunch break in each normal workday, paid at the prevailing rate.

The Company shall allow employees two [2] work breaks of no more than fifteen [15] minutes each, one [1] in each half of a regular shift. An employee shall receive a paid fifteen [15] minute work break after completing one [1] hour of overtime work beyond his scheduled shift.

Employees shall be afforded identical lunch periods and work breaks on scheduled overtime shifts. Employees working overtime at the completion of their regular shift shall be afforded a fifteen [15] minute work break after completion of one [1] hour overtime. In the event the employee is still working overtime three [3] hours after the completion of his regular shift, he shall then be afforded a paid half [0.5] hour lunch break. Additional work breaks shall be afforded every two and one-half [2.5] hours thereafter.

The Company agrees to maintain adequate, clean and sanitary lunchroom and toilet facilities according to government regulations. Employees shall use such facilities carefully and considerately.

1. It is agreed that upon returning to the warehouse at the end of the day, for employees working on the fleet, all breaks will be assumed to have been taken unless prior permission to take breaks at the warehouse at the end of the shift has been given by the employees' supervisor or branch clerk.

4.14 - OVERTIME MEAL ALLOWANCE

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 ten dollars [$10.00].


4.15 - REPORTING PAY

Employees must be notified before quitting time if they are 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.

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

4.17       If an employee is called into work for less than a full shift, but more than half of the shift, he shall be paid for the full shift 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 a full shift, then in order to claim pay for a full shift, he must be prepared to accept other work, such as warehouse or cleanup.

4.18       Any employee called back for emergency purposes shall receive pay for not less than one-half [0.5] shift at the prevailing rate.