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will provide $500 per year for health-spending account. Dental: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums. Pension: Dalhousie University Staff Pension Plan. Bereavement leave: Time off will be given for period reason- able in circumstances for death in immediate family. Further unpaid leave will not be unrea- sonably denied. Seniority – recall rights: 6 years. Probationary period: Greater than 3 years (but not greater than 3 1/2) when appointment takes effect on or after Jan. 1; less than 3 years (but not less than 2 1/2) when appointment takes effect before Jan. 1. Discipline: Sunset clause is 18 months. Sample rates of annual pay (current, after 2.5% increase): Minimum salary rates Lecturer, or equivalent: $65,079 rising 2 steps to $66,717 Assistant professor, or equiva- lent: $72,983 rising 2 steps to $74,820 Associate professor, or equiva- lent: $89,451 rising 2 steps to $91,703 Professor, or equivalent $103,515 rising 2 steps to $106,120 Librarian 1: $59,737 rising 2 steps to $61,241 Librarian 2: $66,068 rising 2 steps to $67,731 Librarian 3: $73,405 rising 2 steps to $75,253 Librarian 4: $85,631 rising 2 steps to $87,786 Instructor: $59,264 rising 2 steps to $60,756 Senior instructor: $74,232 ris- ing 2 steps to $76,100 University teaching fellow: $89,199 rising 2 steps to $91,443 Technology instructor 1: $47,709 rising 2 steps to $48,910 Technology instructor 2: $57,686 rising 2 steps to $59,139 Technology instructor 3: $72,652 rising 2 steps to $74,481 Maximum salary rates Lecturer, or equivalent: $107,693 rising 2 steps to $110,403 Assistant professor, or equiva- lent: $122,918 rising 2 steps to $126,011 Associate professor, or equiva- lent $155,726 rising 2 steps to $159,644 Professor, or equivalent: $188,736 rising 2 steps to $193,485 Librarian 1: $86,069 rising 2 steps to $88,235 Librarian 2: $100,833 rising 2 steps to $103,371 Librarian 3: $119,333 rising 2 steps to $122,336 Librarian 4: $142,346 rising 2 steps to $145,928 Instructor: $102,840 rising 2 steps to $105,428 Senior instructor: $126,226 ris- ing 2 steps to $129,402 University teaching fellow: $149,613 rising 2 steps to $153,378 Technology instructor 1: $79,196 rising 2 steps to $ 81,189 Technology instructor 2: $86,829 rising 2 steps to $ 89,014 Technology instructor 3: $99,550 rising 2 steps to $102,055 M.A. unregistered counsel- lor: $108,208 rising 2 steps to $110,931 Ph.D. or registered counsel- lor: $131,170 rising 2 steps to $134,471 Editor's notes: Education leave: Employer will provide funds for grants to supplement salary or research grants. Effective 2017/18: $18,544. Effective 2018/19: $18,776. Effective 2019/20: $19,011. Travel funds: Employer will con- tribute to fund for employees to attend conferences, workshops and study sessions in places other than Dalhousie University. Effective 2017/18: $778,307. Effective 2018/19: $789,982. Effective 2019/20: $799,857. Effective 2020/21: $809,856. Anomalies fund: In each year of collective agreement, employer will establish separate fund of $137,706 for 2017/18; $139,428 for 2018/19; $141,171 for 2019/20 in order to correct anomalies in base-salary rates. Maximum $5,000 salary adjustment per employee. AIR NAVIGATION SERVICE Nav Canada Multiprovince (15 financial-management employees) and the Association of Canadian Financial Officers (ACFO) Renewal agreement: Effective Nov. 21, 2017, to Feb. 6, 2020. Signed on Nov. 21, 2017. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 112.5 hours to start, 150 hours after 8 years, 165 hours after 16 years, 187.5 hours after 18 years, 202.5 hours after 27 years, 225 hours after 28 years. (Employee who has completed 6 months of service may receive advance of credits equivalent to antici- pated credits for vacation year). Overtime: Time and one-half for all work in excess of employ- ee's scheduled hours and one days or rest. Double time for all work on second and subsequent days of rest after 7.5 hours of work on first day of rest. Double time for all overtime worked between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Meal allowance: 1 meal at rate equivalent to lunch pro- vided under NCJC (National Joint Council of Public Service of Canada) Travel Program, except where free meals are provided, for employee who works 3 or more hours of over- time immediately before or immediately following sched- uled hours of work and who has not been previously notified of requirement prior to end of last scheduled work period. 1 addi- tional meal for 4 or more hours of overtime. Sick leave: Maximum 130 days for 1 period of absence. Pension: NAV CANADA pen- sion plan. All new hires, upon completion of probation period, will receive a 1-time only $2,000 lump sum non-pensionable payment to supplement retire- ment savings. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (father, mother, stepfather, step- mother, foster-parent, guard- ian, brother, sister, spouse, child, spouse's child, stepchild, 5 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2018 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Unused leave: Employees will be allowed to transfer unused compensatory leave into RRSP of employee's choice. Travel funds: Employer will provide funds to attend conferences, workshops and study sessions in places other than Dalhousie University.

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