S.S. A.'s required to work at emergency occurrences, including mishaps, washouts, slides, etc., will be provided with suitable shelter when conditions warrant; will be paid actual reasonable expenses while away from home and will be governed by the following provisions:
S.S. A.'s will be exempt from shovelling snow, stencilling cars, sifting coal or ashes, attending to flower gardens or lawns, cleaning and disinfecting stations or outbuildings, cleaning of chimneys, cutting or piling wood, handling government mails, and attending to switch and semaphore lamps. Special consideration will be given to cases where it is shown that attending to heaters in cars, or calling crews constitutes a hardship or unduly interferes with the other duties of the C.S.S.A.
S.S. A.'s shall be supplied with suitable office and living accommodation - a van if one is available.
S.S. A.’s or RTC’s applying for a position advertised may, if they so desire, cancel their applications by wire within 15 days from the date of advertising of the vacancy; should the senior applicant withdraw or not receive the appointment, the next senior qualified applicant, who has not withdrawn, will then be appointed without another bulletin being issued advertising the vacancy. After such period of 15 days a request to cancel or withdraw his/her application will not be considered and the position from which he/she is transferring will be immediately advertised and he/she cannot again bid in his/her former position until it again becomes vacant. Senior applicants who have not withdrawn within 15 days from date of vacancy bulletin or go on spare list. Once an application for a position advertised has been withdrawn, the withdrawal cannot be cancelled.
S.S. A.'s applying for bulletined vacancies in positions of Relief RTC will be qualified or disqualified within two weeks. If disqualified (that is, not considered RTC material) he/she is to be returned to his/her former position and not paid for the time occupied in training up to two weeks. If at the end of two weeks the applicant is considered as satisfactory RTC material, he/she may be allowed up to a month as a training period and paid at the terminal C.S.S.A.'s 2nd shift rate for that period. It may follow that in some cases, for instance in offices where there are two or more sets of RTC's that a longer training period is necessary, but any time in excess of one month in learning the work of RTC under shift RTC must be on the employee's own time and without pay.
S.S. A.'s called before their regular hours of duty and who have not had an opportunity to secure breakfast will be allowed 20 minutes, without loss of pay as soon as possible after regular starting time for the purpose. C.
S.S. A.s appointed to RTC positions that are not bulletined as permanent will be protected in their established positions as C.S.S.A.
S.S. A.'s whose assigned hours include a meal period shall be allowed 60 consecutive minutes for a meal, starting between 0700 and 0800; or 1200 and 1300; or 1730 and 1830. Should such an employee not be granted a meal period in accordance with the above, he/she shall, in lieu thereof, be granted one hours' pay at 1 ½ times the pro rata rate and shall be allowed, at the first opportunity, 20 minutes in which to eat without deduction in pay. If a meal period is assigned between the hours of 2200 and 0600 it shall commence during the fourth hour after the start of the tour of duty and shall be governed by the above conditions.
S.S. A.'s and RTC’s rest days are subject to change in accordance with the requirements of the service and not less than 72 hours' notice shall be given to C.S.S.A.'s or RTC’s affected. Requests from senior employees that they be given preference in the assignment of rest days will be considered only when permanent changes occur in an office and only if a change is practicable, having regard for the requirements of the service, availability of relief and other pertinent factors.
S.S. A.'s or RTC’s assigned, notified or called to work on their regularly assigned rest days shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half time with a minimum allowance of three hours for which three hours service may be required; except that if required to work a full day within their regularly assigned hours of duty the provisions of Article 8.1, 8.4 and 8.5 will apply.
