Time Balance Work Schedules. A current six-month time balance schedule may not be terminated. Either eight-hour, ten-hour or twelve-hour time balance shift work which is in effect for any work group may be terminated by the Sector Vice President / delegate or the Station Manager upon two months' written notice from one authority to the other prior to the end of a current six-month schedule. When the Sector Vice President / delegate has exercised the right to opt out of time balance schedules for any group of employees, no new time balance schedule may be introduced for those employees without mutual agreement of management and the Union. Time balance shift schedules will only be introduced at any work location providing seventy percent (70%) or more of all eligible employees so desire and vote in favour. That vote will be as determined by a secret ballot, scrutineered jointly by management and the Union. A six (6) month master work schedule will be posted thirty (30) days prior to its starting date. The time balance period of the six (6) month schedule may be less than six months. The six month schedule may include day work outside the time balance shift period. The schedule will average forty (40) hours per week using either eight, ten or twelve (8, 10 or 12) hour shifts, or any combination of the three. The schedule will indicate the days, hours of work (shifts) and position for each employee. The schedules will end on the last day of the shift cycle closest to April 30th and October 31st or as otherwise agreed to by the Chief Xxxxxxx. The hours of work for each employee, as shown on a work schedule, must balance to zero at the end of the shift cycle. The zero time balance date must be indicated on each posted schedule. The posted master work schedule should never be far off balance and should reasonably approximate the time off provisions of day work. It follows then that such a schedule should not leave long sequences of work without time off, nor long sequences of time off.
