Safeway Operations – Notice of Change to Work Schedule

9.14 Notice of Change, Work Schedule

An employee’s schedule may be changed without notice in the event of absence of other staff due to sickness or accident or in the event of emergencies, such as fire, flood, breakdown of machinery or other instances of force majeure.  In all other cases, at least twenty four (24) hours’ notice of any change must be given or four (4) additional hours’ pay given in lieu of notice.  The Employer is required to make a reasonable effort to verbally advise individual employees of the changes to their work schedule once it has been posted.

In the case of students, they must be notified on the day before of any change to his or her schedule or be given an additional two (2) hours’ pay if the schedule is changed for a school day and four (4) hours’ pay if the schedule is changed for a non-school day.
Service Clerks must be notified the day before of any change to his or her schedule or be given an additional two (2) hours’ pay.
It is understood that if a penalty is paid under Section 9.14, then no penalty shall be paid under Section 9.16.

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