FPSLREB Decisions

Overtime - Pre-authorization - Audit, Commerce and Purchasing Group - the grievor had been assigned a project within his regular duties - he claimed 124 hours of overtime, worked over a three-week period - he had not requested or received any authorization to work overtime - however, on a Friday, he had sent an e-mail message to a manager to the effect that he would work over the weekend - the grievor was offered, but declined, two days' compensatory leave - he grieved the employer's denial to pay him overtime - at the first level of the grievance process, he was awarded two days' compensatory leave - at the second and final levels of the grievance process, he was awarded two days' overtime - the grievor argued that he had been under pressure and that his workload was such that he could not have finished his project without working overtime - he added that, by not reducing his workload, the employer had tacitly agreed that he work overtime - the employer conceded the two days' overtime awarded through the grievance process - it added that the grievor had not discussed his workload with his supervisor - the adjudicator found no evidence that the employer had required the grievor, either implicitly or impliedly, to work overtime, with the exception of the two days following the grievor's Friday e-mail message - the adjudicator upheld the two days' overtime awarded to the grievor through the grievance process. Grievance allowed in part.