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November 7, 2016
Company blames benefits provider,
fails to accommodate worker
Employer responsible
for mistake, breached
agreement: Arbitrator
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ONTARIO employer breached the collective
agreement when it relied on a third-party benefits
provider's faulty information and failed to properly
accommodate a worker with a medical disability, an
arbitrator has ruled.
The worker was employed as a personal support
worker with St. Joseph's at Fleming, an elderly care
home in Peterborough, Ont.
On Sept. 21, 2014, the worker was injured while in
the workplace, hurting her lower back. The injury re-
sulted in restrictions being put in place limiting her
ability to lift, stand, sit, bend, twist, pull and push.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Hamlet of Pond Inlet — Nunavut pg. 3 City of Kelowna Airport — British
Columbia pg. 3 Marché Restaurants Canada — Ontario pg. 4 Mount Royal
University — Alberta pg. 5 FirstCanada ULC — British Columbia pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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pg. 2
Pepsico deal reached
After joining Unifor, Calgary
bottling plant workers get
wage gains, better
scheduling rights
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Employer > pg. 7
ENTERAINMENT
e Alberta Jubilee
Auditoria Society
Edmonton
(8 technicians) and IATSE Local 210
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive April 1, 2015, to March 31,
2020. Signed on June 6, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 1, 2018: Greater
of 2% per cent or cost of living
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see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
Freezer pay is regular-time pay,
not shift premium: Arbitrator
A UNION filed a grievance after
it said pay stubs did not fully re-
flect when employees worked in-
side a grocery company's freezer.
Teamsters union took offence
with Western Grocers over what
used to be considered strictly pre-
mium pay turned into regular sal-
ary to reflect working in the cold
conditions, but the hours worked
were not honoured as such by the
company.
A 2009 collective agreement
indicated workers at the Calgary
Non-union worker successfully chosen for unionized programming job pg. 8
