Article 17: Hours of Work I recently worked through a grievance concerning interpretation of this article and was surprised by the result. So let's walk through it. Article 17.04(a) states that "The Hospital will endeavour to post the shifts of each emplyee, including weekends and paid holidays, as soon as possible, but will post no later than six calendar weeks prior to the effective date of the schedule. As much as possible, evening, night, and weekend shifts shall be distr

I'm beginning to get questions about the vaccine mandate. The employer has not yet provided an updated Vaccination Policy to address this new mandate, but here's what they have said so far: "This week, the Ontario government announced that COVID-19 vaccination policies are becoming mandatory for high-risk settings. This is in response to evolving data around the transmissibility of the Delta variant and based on the recent experiences of other jurisdictions. Beginning Septemb