Canadian Labour Reporter

April 15, 2019 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2019 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS 6 SENIORS CARE Seasons Retirement Communities (Lethbridge Gardens) Lethbridge, Alta. (15 kitchen, health-care employees) and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), Local 048/043 Renewal agreement: Effect- ive Feb. 11, 2019, to Oct. 31, 2022. Ratified on Nov 15, 2018. Signed on Feb. 11, 2019. Wage adjustments: Effective Oct. 1, 2019: 1% Effective Oct. 1, 2020: 1% Effective Oct. 1, 2021: 1% Paid holidays: 9 days. Vacations with pay: 4% to start, 2 weeks or 4% after 1 year, 3 weeks or 6% after 3 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 84 hours per biweekly pay period. Meal allowance: Free meal (subject to availability) after 3 hours of overtime. Sick leave: Employees will earn 7.5 hours income protection credits per 162.5 hours worked, maximum 3 days per year. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death of spouse (including common-law, same sex rela- tionship), fiancé(e), grandpar- ent, child, sister-in-law, parent, brother-in-law, stepchild, par- ent-in-law, brother, son-in-law, sister, daughter-in-law, legal guardian, foster parent, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle. 1 day for death of another relative or close friend. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. Probationary period: 503.75 hours worked. Discipline: Sunset clause is 18 months for written warn- ing, disciplinary suspensions; 36 months for suspensions for abuse or neglect. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 3% increase): Cook Start: $16 rising 3 steps to $16.48 Step 2 (1,850 hours): $16.16 rising 3 steps to $16.65 Step 3 (3,700 hours): $16.32 rising 3 steps to $16.81 Step 4 (5,550 hours): $16.48 rising 3 steps to $16.98 Step 5 (7,400 hours): $17 rising 3 steps to $17.52 RGA Start: $13.60 rising 3 steps to $15.45 Step 2 (850 hours): $15.15 rising 3 steps to $15.61 Step 3 (3,700 hours): $15.30 ris- ing 3 steps to $15.76 Step 4 (5,550 hours): $15.45 rising 3 steps to $15.92 Step 5 (7,400 hours): $15.60 rising 3 steps to $16.08 HEALTH CARE Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Provincewide, Newfoundland and Labrador (590 health-care employees) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) Renewal agreement: Effect- ive March 31, 2018, to March 31, 2020. Signed on March 31, 2018. Wage adjustments: Effective April 1, 2018: 0% Effective April 1, 2019: 0% Shift premium: $2.30 per hour for each hour employee works between 4 p.m. on 1 day and 8 a.m. following day. $2.55 per hour for each hour employee works between 12:01 a.m. Sat- urday and midnight Sunday. Paid holidays: 9 days, plus 1 additional day. Vacations with pay: 1 2/3 days per month of service to start, 4 weeks after 1 year, 5 weeks after 10 years, 6 weeks after 25 years. For 12-hour shift workers: 12.5 hours for each 162.5 hours of service to start, 150 hours after 1,950 hours, 187.5 hours after 19,500 hours, 225 hours after 48,750 hours. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 12 hours per day or 150 hours per 4-week pe- riod. May be taken as compen- satory, maximum 37.5 hours; will be paid out if not taken within 60 days of overtime worked. Medical benefits: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employ- ee pays 50% of premiums. Vision: Coverage at 80%, maxi- mum $70, for eye examinations performed by ophthalmologist or optometrist where medicare plan does not cover such servic- es. 100% of maximum covered expenses of $150 for single-vi- sion lenses and frames, $200 for bifocal lenses and frames, $250 for trifocal and progressive adaptive lenses and frames ev- ery 3 years. 100% of maximum covered expense of $250 every 2 years for contact lenses when prescribed for severe corneal scarring, keratoconus or apha- kia and if cornea is impaired so that visual acuity cannot be improved to at least 20/40 level in better eye with eyeglasses. 1 pair of eyeglasses when pre- scribed by ophthalmologist following non-refractive eye surgery, to 100% of lifetime cov- ered eligible expense of $200. 50% of cost of visual training or remedial therapy. Sick leave: 15 hours for each 162.5 hours of service. Maxi- mum 3,600 working hours for sick leave during any 20-year period of service; 1,800 for em- ployees hired after May 4, 2004. AD&D: Coverage of 2 times an- nual salary. Life insurance: Coverage of 2 times annual salary, minimum $10,000, maximum $1,000,000. Pension: Public Service Pen- sion Plan. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death of mother, father, brother, sister, child, spouse, common- law spouse, legal guardian, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, near-relative living in same household. 1 day for death of son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in- law, sister-in-law. Additional 30 hours for funeral outside of province. Additional 15 hours where extraordinary circum- stances prevail. Seniority – recall rights: 24 months. Call-in pay: Minimum 3 hours at overtime rate. Employee will be paid for cost of transporta- tion to and from place of work, maximum $8.50 or appropriate mileage for each callback. Probationary period: 975 working hours. Discipline: Sunset clause is 18 months. Severance: Number of years of employment multiplied by weekly salary, maximum 20 weeks' pay. Mileage: $0.315 per kilometre. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): CG-08 Step 1: $16.41 Step 2: $16.95 Step 3: $17.48 CG-09 Step 1: $16.55 Step 2: $17.09 Step 3: $17.58 CG-10 Step 1: $16.67 Step 2: $17.18 Step 3: $17.73 CG-11 Step 1: $16.76 Step 2: $17.32 Step 3: $17.88 CG-12 Step 1: $16.94 Step 2: $17.50 Step 3: $18.01 CG-13 Step 1: $17.09 Step 2: $17.65 Step 3: $18.24 CG-14 Step 1: $17.25 Step 2: $17.85 Step 3: $18.45 CG-15 Step 1: $17.48 Step 2: $18.08 Step 3: $18.69 CG-16 Step 1: $17.67 Step 2: $18.33 Step 3: $18.93 CG-37

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