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of 60% of monthly earnings, maximum $2,000 or 85% of pre-disability take-home pay, whichever is less, maximum 5-year payout after 119 day waiting period. AD&D: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums for coverage of $25,000. Life insurance: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums for cov- erage of $25,000. Pension: Employer will con- tribute 2% into DC plan, after 1 year of service. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death of spouse, parents, chil- dren, sisters, brothers, father- in-law, mother-in-law, grand- children, any relative residing in employee's household. 2 days for death of grandparents, step- parents, stepchildren. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. Call-in pay: Minimum 6 hours' pay. Time and one for all call- ins which require employees to work more than 10 hours in 24 hours. Probationary period: 90 calendar days. Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months. Safety shoes: Employer will provide $150 (previously $125) for 1 pair of safety shoes after 1 year of employment. Tool allowance: Employer will supply all necessary tools and equipment. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 8.3% increase): Highway drivers: $24 rising 3 steps to $26 Sample rates of mileage pay (current, after 3.3% increase): Highway drivers (less than 100- mile radius): $0.46 rising 3 steps to $0.475 Editor's notes: Discharges: After discharge of employee, if final pay is not forwarded within 3 working days, employer will pay $30 per working day to employee between end of third working day and day pay was forwarded. Training: Drivers requesting training on special equipment during own time will be paid at 100% of regular hourly rate while training. Layovers: 9 hours' pay for every 24-hour period. Employer will pay for accommodations and pay $18 meal allowance to employees. Drivers operating trucks equipped with sleeper bunks will receive $10 during layover and no motel rooms are supplied. Dead-head rate: Employees who dead-head will be paid prevailing hourly rate, which will include breakdowns, all delays. Drivers will not dead-head in vehicles that are not equipped with passenger seats. Parking: Employer will provide parking area at each terminal where employees may park private vehicles free of charge. Truck wash: Employees will be paid one-half hour per week at straight-time hourly rate to wash truck. EDUCATION Newfoundland and Labrador School Boards Association Provincewide, Newfoundland and Labrador (760 student assistants) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) Renewal agreement: Effec- tive March 31, 2018, to March 31, 2020. Signed on March 31, 2018. Wage adjustments: Effective April 1, 2018: 0% Effective April 1, 2019: 0% Paid holidays: 9 days. Vacations with pay: Employees will receive 6% of total regular earnings in lieu of vacation pay. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 7 hours per day or 35 hours per week. May be taken as time off in lieu but request must be made within 72 hours of conclusion of over- time. Medical benefits: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employ- ee pays 50% of premiums. Sick leave: 2 days for each month of service; 1 day for each month of service for employee hired after May 4, 2004. Maxi- mum 320 days for any consecu- tive 20-year period of employ- ment; 240 days for employee hired after May 4, 2004. Pension: Employees will have access to Public Service Pension Plan or Government Money Purchase Plan. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death of mother, father, brother, sister, child, spouse, legal guard- ian, common-law spouse, chil- dren of common-law spouse, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, stepfather, step- mother, stepbrother, stepsister, near relative living in same household. 1 day for death of son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law. 2 additional days where extraor- dinary circumstances prevail. Seniority – recall rights: 24 consecutive months. Call-in pay: Minimum of 3 hours' pay at applicable over- time rate provided that period worked is not contiguous to scheduled working hours. Probationary period: 455 hours. Discipline: Sunset clause is 18 months. Severance: Employees are entitled to number obtained by multiplying number of completed years of continuous employment by weekly salary, maximum 20 weeks' pay. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide lab coats, dispos- able gloves, wet wipes, anti- bacterial hand cleaner when necessary. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Student assistants Step 1: $22.23 Step 2: $23.43 Step 3: $24.61 Editor's notes: Personal loss: Employer may compensate employee for any loss suffered, which employee would reasonably have in possession during normal performance of duty, maximum $500. LIBRARIES Town of Cochrane Library Board Cochrane, Alta. (20 library staff, custodians, maintenance technicians) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1169 Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2019, to Dec. 31, 2022. Ratified on March 29, 2019. Signed on March 29, 2019. Wage adjustments: Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 1.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2020: 2% Effective Jan. 1, 2021: 2.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2022: 3% Shift premium: $1 per hour for employees working on Sunday. Paid holidays: 11 days. When library is scheduled to be open on Sundays, Easter Sunday will be treated as paid holiday. Em- ployees who work on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve will work minimum of 3 hours and library will close at 1:30 p.m., with no loss of pay for regularly sched- uled hours. Vacations with pay: 2 weeks to start, 3 weeks after 4,160 hours of service, 4 weeks after 16,640 5 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2019 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS