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Park Forestry and Recreation Part-Time Scheduling Project1

1. Summary
2. Detailed breakdown
3. Analysis

Summary

• The Scheduling Project aims to ensure that returning Recreation Workers, whose forms are received by the deadline, are offered regularly scheduled work at the same location, in the same season, and in the same program/classification as they worked in the previous year. Any remaining hours of work available after returning employees have been scheduled will be offered to the most senior employee who is qualified, available, and whose forms have been received by the due date.(2)
• The Scheduling Project is based on two different definitions of seniority: “Shift Seniority” meaning your right to the same shift at the same program/classification at the same location that you worked the previous year; and, “True Seniority” meaning your cumulative hours as a City worker.
• Each season (Fall, Winter, Spring/Summer), employees are required to re-apply for shifts, using multiple colour-coded forms, on their own (unpaid) time.
• Scheduling issues arising out of this pilot project cannot be grieved. You cannot work more than 30 hours in the same classification, with the exception of certain seasonal classifications (ice rinks, summer aquatics, snow center operations, seasonal camps, etc…).(3)
• Late forms will only be considered for shifts that are still available and have not yet been offered to other employees (including from different classifications, locations and—if the form is more than one week late—new hires).
• An employee not in receipt of wages for more than 12 months loses seniority.

Details of Scheduling Project

-Where employer determines the requirements and efficiency of a given activity will permit,(4) employer will give consideration to employees with the greatest length of seniority,(5) past performance and qualifications.(6)

(1)The purpose of this document is to simplify the complex Scheduling Project, and it is intended to provide as accurate a summary as possible, however, it cannot substitute for the actual Scheduling Project documents in the Recreation Workers – Part-Time Collective Agreement, Article 28 and Memoranda M9-16.

(2)http://www.toronto.ca/parks/hiringnow/rwsp.htm

(3)This would appear to be in order to avoid part-time staff from working full-time hours, which could eventually give that employee grounds to have the shift changed from part-time to full-time.

(4)This is a lot of leeway for the employer to determine that it would be more efficient to use someone with less seniority.

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