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AN ONTARIO employer
breached its collective agreement
when it didn't pay a worker for a
full shift for which the worker was
called in after the shift began, an
arbitrator has ruled.
The North West Local Health
Integration Network (LHIN) is a
regional public health authority
for the Northwestern part of On-
tario, based in Thunder Bay.
The collective agreement it had
with its nurses' union, the On-
tario Nurses' Association (ONA),
included an article — part of a
section dealing with "premium
pay and other allowances" — that
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POLICE
e Kingston Police
Services Board
Kingston, Ont.
(195 police officers) and the Kingston Police Association (KPA)
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2022.
Ratified in January 2021.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2020: 2.2%
Effective July 1, 2021: 2.2%
Effective July 1, 2022: 2.2%
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
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see Right > pg.8
TTC repairperson throws bolts at coworker,
fired after breach of last-chance agreement
AN ONTARIO worker who threw metal bolts at a
colleague breached his last-chance agreement and
deserved to be dismissed, an arbitrator has ruled.
The 38-year-old worker was a vehicle repairper-
son for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). He
was originally hired in 2008 and his job duties in-
volved the overhaul of subway car undercarriages.
The worker had 11 instances of discipline over
a four-year period, including verbal warnings,
written warnings, and multiple suspensions, for
misconduct ranging from swearing and yelling at
colleagues to spitting on his foreperson's personal
vehicle.
On July 5, 2013, the worker visited the TTC's oc-
cupational health department about a sick-pay is-
sue. Employees in the department complained that
he was "rude, aggressive and profane" and the TTC
relieved him of duty, but reinstated him subject to a
last-chance agreement. The agreement stated that
any future involvement in inappropriate conduct,
August 16, 2021
see Bad > pg.8
The Board of Education of School District #44
(North Vancouver) — British Columbia pg. 4
Bombardier — Quebec pg. 5 Construction Labour
Relations Alberta — Alberta pg. 6 Au Chateau Home for
the Aged West Nipissing — Ontario pg. 7
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ehrlif
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
pg. 2
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Call-in after shift already began
still deserves pay for full shift
