Extra Shifts - Training. Employees may be temporarily rescheduled from the two-platoon schedule to work straight day shifts (4 shifts = 5 calendar days) in order to facilitate accommodation of training activities or the performance of special assignments. Eight (8) duty shifts’ notice will be given to any employee being temporarily rescheduled from their shift to accommodate training. Effective 2016 May 25, where an employee attends a training course outside of the employee’s working hours and the training course is one that the Fire Chief requires the employee to attend, the employee shall be paid at the employee’s regular hourly rate for the first two (2) shifts spent in such training in a calendar year and at one-half (1½) times the employee’s regular hourly rate for all time spent in such training beyond the first two (2) shifts in a calendar year.
Extra Shifts - Training. (a) Effective 2004 April 08: Where an employee is required to work a portion of an extra shift for the purpose of attending an instructional or training exercise, then the employee shall, at the option of the Corporation, receive an amount of time off equivalent to one (1) times the number of extra hours so worked or pay at the rate of one (1) times their regular hourly rate of pay for such extra hours. Any period of work which immediately follows, or which immediately precedes the employee’s regular shift will not be subject to any minimum period of compensation; and any other period of work will be subject to a minimum of three (3) hours at one (1) times their regular hourly rate of pay.
Extra Shifts - Training
