Downtime. Downtime is when the employee is unable to produce at all because of lack of material, machine breakdown, waiting for set-up, etc. In such cases, the operator shall ring out and contact his supervisor who will authorize the applicable downtime when the job is restarted or the operator is reassigned if such downtime is three (3) minutes or more. Downtime is paid at the base rate of the job. Assume an employee works on a job for 7.5 hours producing 9 standard hours and then encounters .5 hour of downtime because the job was "out of stock". If the base rate is $1.60, his earnings for the day will be $15.20 ($1.60 x 9 standard hours plus $1.60 x .5 hours).
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Samples: Agreement, Collective Labour Agreement, Collective Labour Agreement
Downtime. Downtime is when the employee is unable to produce at all because of lack of material, machine breakdown, waiting for set-up, set- up etc. In such cases, the operator shall ring out and contact his supervisor his/her xxxxxxx who will authorize the applicable downtime when the job is restarted or the operator is reassigned if such downtime is three six (36) minutes or more. Downtime is paid at the base rate of the job. Assume an employee works on a job for 7.5 hours producing 9 standard hours and then encounters .5 hour of downtime because the job was "out of stock". If the base rate is $1.60, his his/her earnings for the day will be $15.20 ($1.60 x 9 standard hours plus $1.60 x .5 hours).
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