Overtime Agreement

Hourly Part-Time or Casual Employees

Hourly Part-Time or Casual employees will be paid out for all overtime hours worked at a rate of 1.5 times the employee's regular rate of pay.
Hourly Part-Time or Casual employees are not applicable for banking overtime as Banked Time in Lieu.

Commission Paid Employees

Employees who are paid exclusively by incentive pay such as commission, piecework or a similar method, are not applicable for banking overtime as Banked Time in Lieu.

Salary Paid Employees

This agreement allows overtime hours to be banked and later taken off with pay, hour for hour, during regular work hours. This agreement relates to all overtime pay.

Overtime hours are calculated the same way under an overtime agreement, as it would be if overtime pay is to be paid at time-and-a-half.
Only overtime, which has been authorized and pre-approved by the department manager or designate, will be recognized as Banked Time in Lieu.
Banked Time in Lieu must be taken within three months of the end of the pay period in which the overtime was earned.
Banked Time in Lieu that is not taken at the end of the 3 Banked month time period, the overtime hours will be lost and will not be paid out at time-and-a-half.
Daily and weekly schedules may vary from time to time, and diversification in work schedules may be required to meet changing operational needs. Employees may be requested to work overtime during periods of unexpected and/or unavoidable workloads. Where possible, reasonable notice will be given under these circumstances.
Time taken off in lieu of overtime pay is equal to the actual number of overtime hours worked, at the employee's regular rate of pay.
In compliance with Employment Standards, employees in management positions are not eligible for overtime compensation.
On termination of employment, any outstanding overtime, which has previously been approved, will be paid out and included in the employee's final pay.

Travel Time

In most cases when airplane travel is required, travel time starts approximately 1.0 hour prior to domestic flights and 2.0 hours for international flights. Travel time will stop approximately 1.0 hour after arriving at the destination.
There will be travel time that is less then a full day and there will be time that is more then a full day. At most, a single travel day is earned as Banked Time in Lieu on either side of an onsite trip. As single travel day is used as a guideline for over a time period the over/under should average out.
Travel time to and from the airport when leaving your place of residence, is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Travel time on weekends is eligible for overtime compensation.
Travel time on a regular weekday where you were scheduled to work, is deemed part of your regular work week.

Weekend Stayovers

Overtime will only be recognized if time on the weekend was used for training purposes. If training was not scheduled to occur over the weekend day(s), then no overtime will be recognized for the Weekend day(s).
Weekend days where there is no scheduled training activities, are treated as regular weekend days off.

Work Requested by Client

While onsite, a client may request that AMS perform work on their behalf during the installation, training, and/or upgrade process. If AMS is requested to perform work, then this work will be invoiced back to the client for it would not (in most cases), be part of the pre-arranged agreement for onsite activities between AMS and client.
All overtime that is accepted and confirmed completed by the client, will be recognized as overtime. An overtime sheet will be required to be completed, signed by the client, and provided to the department manager or designate upon completion of the work. When the completed and signed overtime sheet has been received by the department manager or designate, then the overtime will be added to the Banked Time in Lieu.
Failure to provide a completed overtime sheet to the department manager or designate, will forfeit the overtime hours.