Lunenburg Municipal School Board v Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

Authors

Innis Christie, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law

Document Type

Arbitration Decision

Publication Date

1-2-1980

Keywords

Collective Agreement, Overtime, Past Practice, Ambiguous, Regular Hours, Entitlement

Abstract

Upon signing the Collective Agreement, the Parties agreed to submit to Arbitration the question of what constituted the "regular hourly rate". This was done for the purpose of calculating overtime pay, which was one and a half times that rate. The Employees were bus drivers who were paid $600 per month, for ten months a year, with a 20 hour work week. Previously, 195 days was the basis on which overtime was calculated, being the number of days on which driving was done. The Board objected to this at negotiations and wanted to base the rate on the ten month period, or 216 days.

Comments

Summary available only on CanLii.

Recommended Citation

Lunenburg Municipal School Board v Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) (1980), 1980 CanLII 3453 (NSLA) (Arbitrator: Innis Christie).