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AN ONTARIO worker whose
hours worked on a holiday helped
put his total hours over the over-
time threshold deserves premium
pay rates for both the holiday and
the extra hours on his total, an ar-
bitrator has ruled.
Cochrane Highway Main-
tenance is a road maintenance
services company based in Co-
chrane, Ont. The company has a
contract with the Ontario Minis-
try of Transportation to maintain
the roads in the area that are un-
der provincial jurisdiction.
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ENERGY
ENMAX
Calgary
(406 technicians, journeymen, operators, inspectors, warehouse, utility
workers) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW),
Local 254
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31,
2021. Ratified on June 24, 2019.
Signed on June 13, 2019.
Shift premium: When util-
ity worker has been assigned
employee-in-charge duties
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Holiday> pg. 7
see Company > pg.8
Agreement waives need for recent lists
to determine overtime assignments
Government of Canada (Foreign Service) — Ontario
pg. 4 Parrheim Foods — Saskatchewan pg. 4
Woodbridge Foam — Ontario pg.5
Peace River School Division — Alberta pg.6
Kingsland Terrace Supportive Living — Alberta pg. 7
AN ONTARIO arbitrator has found that an em-
ployer had no obligation to use the most recent
overtime distribution list when offering overtime
assignments due to a lack of specific language in the
collective agreement.
SGS Canada provides inspection, verification,
testing and certification services for industrial en-
terprises on a contract basis. The collective agree-
ment between SGS and its union required the com-
pany to maintain an overtime distribution list.
At the beginning of each year, the list was reset
based on seniority and then revised every two weeks
according to the number of overtime hours worked.
Qualified employees with the least overtime hours
on the list would be offered overtime first and, if they
declined, the company would move up the list.
The agreement stated that once the list was reset
at the beginning of the year, "overtime assignments
then will be offered to the qualified employees with
least overtime hours on the distribution list who are
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
pg. 2
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Double-dipping prohibited;
overtime estimate not excluded