4.01       For all employees eight [8] hours shall constitute a day's 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.

COMPRESSED WORK WEEK

4.03       Not withstanding the other provisions of the Agreement, the Company may schedule a four [4] day week consisting of four [4] shifts of nine and one-half [9.5] hours inclusive of a paid thirty [30] minute lunch break, with pay for thirty eight [38] hours, subject to the following:

1. The four days shall be consecutive.
   
   
2. Shifts may be Monday to Thursday, Tuesday to Friday or Wednesday to Saturday.
   
   
3. The compressed work week shall remain in place unless it is mutually agreed to return to a five [5] day work week.
   
   
4. Overtime shall be paid after nine and one-half [9.5] hours per day, or thirty eight [38] hours per week.
   
   
5. Employees working the compressed work week shall be given full credit for pension entitlement based upon 1710 hours rather than 1800 hours.

4.04       Notification of the weekly 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 provide the Union with the final dispatch sheets with all changes for each day.
   
   
2. Employee's off on Union business, bereavement, sick leave, WCB, WI and employee's working overtime, on a training program, or GRTW, etc., shall be identified with and/or on the final dispatch sheet that the Union receives.

OVERTIME

4.05       Employee's shall not be compelled to work overtime, but may volunteer to do so.

4.06       Notwithstanding Article 4.05, it is agreed that after accepting a delivery assignment, the employee shall 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 Holidays.

4.09       Incidental overtime in the warehouse shall be limited to a maximum of five (5) hours per shift. Any variance from this practice must be discussed and agreed to by the Union.

4.10       No employees shall be allowed to work overtime while other employee's are receiving less than a regular weeks pay per week in his department. Incidental overtime will be allowed on the fleet. Overtime in the warehouse and the fleet may be scheduled on a daily basis as long as no qualified employee is unassigned on said days.

SUNDAY TIME

4.11       For all work performed up to nine and one-half [9.5] hours on Sundays, the premium rate of double time shall be paid to all employee's. All work performed over nine and one-half [9.5] hours on Sundays shall be paid for at the rate of triple time.

Notwithstanding the above, there will be no Sunday overtime premium rate for a shift starting at 8:30 pm, or later, on Sunday.

SHIFT CHANGES

4.12       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.

4.13       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.

LUNCH BREAKS AND REST PERIODS

4.14       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 employee's two [2] work breaks of no more than fifteen [15] minutes each, one 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. Employee's 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.

It is agreed that upon returning to the warehouse at the end of the day, for employee's 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.

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.

OVERTIME MEAL ALLOWANCE

4.15       In the event overtime is to be worked without notice being given the previous day, and the period of overtime is to be two [2] hours or more in duration as an extension of his regular shift, the Company agrees to provide the cost of a meal for all employee's working such overtime of ten dollars [$10.00].

REPORTING PAY

4.16       Employee's 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.

1. Notwithstanding the above, all employee's who are daily scheduled, in accordance with Letter of Understanding No. 9, are required to contact the call-in line daily to receive their work assignment.

4.17       Employees called out for work for less than a half day shall receive not less than one-half day's wages.

4.18       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.

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