EDITORIAL. a) Management recognizes that except in an emergency, no nightside employee shall be required to work overtime on the night prior to his/her day off. b) A reporter may be required to report for duty the day following a night assignment up to one and one-half hours later than his/her normal starting time if he/she has the equivalent in overtime. This period of up to one and one-half hours shall be included as part of the reporter’s full working time that day but shall be a deduction from the total of overtime pay earned on the previous night or for any part thereof. c) It is not the intention of the Management to schedule more Editorial employees to work on Sunday than are necessary for basic news coverage. d) The Guild acknowledges that part of the success of any newspaper is due to the unassigned, off-beat stories of a news or feature nature which are “dug-up” by employees. Guild members undertake during working hours to gather and write such stories. In off hours, the Guild recognizes that a member of the editorial staff will try to telephone the office when accidents, fires, etc., are encountered by chance. e) Management and Guild recognize that employees in some categories, including drama, music, movie, radio, television, columnists and legislative reporters, should have a certain amount of freedom in determining their own hours without precise supervision as to starting and finishing time. These employees undertake to put in a full working week of 37-1/2 hours. Management undertakes on its part to pay them within the general overtime provisions of this Agreement if the normal duties or special assignments of these employees require them to work more than seven and one-half hours per day or more than 37-1/2 hours per week. This arrangement exists for the sake of efficiency. Both parties recognize that it rests on mutual trust. f) As a general rule reporters shall be assigned weekend work (Saturday and Sunday) as a block only. g) The Management shall continue its current practice of minimizing the number of different starting times each week for reporters. h) The Management shall make every effort to have copy desk employees work either day shifts or night shifts only within any given week. i) The Times Colonist may assign one reporter regardless of seniority to the legislature beat who will be exempt from weekend duty and will instead be scheduled to work Monday to Friday (“the Monday to Friday legislative reporter”). The Monday to Friday legislative reporter is not a permanent assignment for any reporter and the Times Colonist may change who is assigned as the Monday to Friday legislative reporter. Currently the Times Colonist has assigned ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ to be the Monday to Friday legislative reporter. With the exception of the Monday to Friday legislative reporter, all regular and temporary city-side reporters (including any additional legislative reporters) will share weekend duty scheduled on an equal rotation basis. Notwithstanding paragraph 2 above, in order to allow the second (or further) legislative reporter to cover the legislative beat Monday to Friday during period when there is a heavy legislative workload (such as legislative sessions and political campaigns), the Times Colonist may assign a second (or further) legislative reporter to work weekends during other periods (rather than in the strict rotation) provided that the same total number of weekends will be worked as are required to be worked by all other reporters averaged over a calendar year. Unless assigned as the Monday to Friday legislative reporter, new regular and temporary city-side reporters who are hired after Jan. 2, 2007, will be scheduled to every weekend for a period of 2 years following date of hire. Thereafter, or until such time as another new reporter is hired, they will join the other reporters (except the Monday to Friday legislative reporter) in sharing weekend duty on the equal rotation basis. In accordance with Article 11, section 18 (i) i. notwithstanding Article 11, section 7, the schedule for reporters (except the Monday to Friday legislative reporter) will be seven consecutive shifts only for the purpose of ending weekend duty (Saturday and Sunday);
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