Bulletin
BC Transit – Application of RWWL Days
September 25, 2020
To: All MoveUP members at BC Transit
We appreciate the critical work our entire membership has performed during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to keep the transit system operational in the greater Victoria region.
Your bargaining committee is hard at work updating the language in the new collective agreement. We will be meeting virtually today and September 30, 2020, to review the changes to the agreement.
We would also like to remind all of our members about the changes to RWWL days in the new Collective Agreement. Please be mindful that you need to schedule your remaining RWWL days by September 30, 2020. If you have more than 4 RWWL days in your bank that have not been scheduled, the Employer has the right to schedule these days for you.
Please see the language from the new collective agreement below:
10.01 Work Day and Week
The hours of work of all employees, except those otherwise specifically mentioned in this Agreement, shall be as follows:
a) Work Day: any consecutive 7.5 hours of work, exclusive of lunch period, in a calendar day.
b) Working hours will be the equivalent of thirty-five (35) hours per week. Employees will continue to work a normal week of five (5) x seven and one-half (7 1/2) hour days and shall receive seventeen (17) days a year Reduced Work Week Leave (RWWL).
c) RWWL days may be scheduled to allow employees one (1) full day off in each of the seventeen (17) bi-weekly (pay) periods which do not contain statutory holidays, but in no event, except where subject to 10.01 (g) below, will an employee be scheduled off less than seventeen (17) days per calendar year in service. RWWL days will be front loaded at the beginning of each calendar year. Employees may group together 5 RWWL days to be scheduled at one time, however grouped RWWL days cannot coincide with booked AV weeks unless there is mutual agreement between the employee and their Manager,. Single, scheduled RWWL days are allowed to coincide with booked AV weeks. During AV sign-up, article 13.15 remains intact, all employees will sign AV weeks first. Once all AV has been signed RWWL days will be signed next, in order of seniority. RWWL days may only be scheduled off for a period of less than one full day where such leave is taken as leave of absence under Subsection 19.01(b) and Section 19.03.If there are more than four (4) RWWL days remaining to be scheduled as of September 30th the Manager will have the right to schedule those days prior to the end of the year. Any RWWL time that has not been used will automatically be paid out at the end of each calendar year. Under no circumstances can RWWL days be banked or held over for the following year.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to members of the bargaining committee.
In solidarity,
Your Bargaining Committee:
Glen Redden, Job Steward
Sal Ruffolo, Executive Councillor
Parm Sandhar, Union Representative