TeamLeads and OT
I have a question related to the collective agreement and TL OT. Don't want to ask anyone in my office, as I have heard from others when they asked about possible grievances/issues management suddenly knew about it and I'm not trying to get on anyone's radar. But I am curious.
I have been a part of three unions throughout my working life, and have known members of at least half a dozen others.
In every one, there were rules about supervisors doing their subordinates work. It was very much not allowed, usually under the justification that it is inequitable for supervisors to be paid a higher wage for the work and taking it away from the positions that are actually supposed to complete it. Which made sense to me.
Our office has gotten a few overtime offers over the last couple years (admin, basically processing requests received from the public and issuing decisions). They also offer this overtime to our TLs, even the ones who were hired directly as TLs and have never done the work required. They learn on the shift how to do it, often asking the subordinate employees questions when they aren't sure what to do. They get paid their usual TL wage to do the overtime, even though they are not doing TL duties, but the work that their reports are doing.
Is this allowed? Does our collective agreement just not have language about this, or is there a loop hole they are using to have TLs doing our work for more money than we make doing it, while usually doing less because they aren't trained/are out of practice? They make such a huge deal about how we should be trying to over produce for OT so they can get approval to offer more, but then they are paying more for less work to get done?
I'm not too pressed about it, and trying to keep details vague because our management are not nice people and will try to find a way to punish people for asking questions about possible grievances. But my experience with unions makes this seem very fishy.