Canadian Labour Reporter

October 28, 2019 4 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2019 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS health-care aides; footwear for maintenance staff. Sample rates of pay (current): Administration Administrative assistant Step 1: $20.71 Step 2: $21.23 Step 3: $21.75 Step 4: $22.30 Administrative assistant 2 Step 1: $22.05 Step 2: $22.58 Step 3: $23.10 Step 4: $23.66 Reception Step 1: $18.35 Step 2: $18.79 Step 3: $19.25 Step 4: $19.74 Support staff Environmental-services worker Step 1: $17.18 Step 2: $17.58 Step 3: $18.01 Step 4: $18.45 Lead environmental-services worker Step 1: $18 Step 2: $18.44 Step 3: $18.89 Step 4: $19.36 Maintenance worker Step 1: $18.44 Step 2: $18.89 Step 3: $19.36 Step 4: $19.81 Lead maintenance worker Step 1: $18.86 Step 2: $19.34 Step 3: $19.81 Step 4: $20.31 Driver Step 1: $18 Step 2: $18.44 Step 3: $18.89 Step 4: $19.36 Food-services worker Step 1: $17.19 Step 2: $17.58 Step 3: $18.01 Step 4: $18.45 Lead-cook Step 1: $18 Step 2: $18.44 Step 3: $18.89 Step 4: $19.36 Program staff Client services Step 1: $18.35 Step 2: $18.79 Step 3: $19.25 Step 4: $19.74 Client-services lead Step 1: $19.15 Step 2: $19.63 Step 3: $20.11 Step 4: $20.63 Client-care support Step 1: $19.99 Step 2: $20.51 Step 3: $21.01 Step 4: $21.56 Transition specialist Step 1: $22.11 Step 2: $22.67 Step 3: $23.26 Step 4: $23.85 Facilitator Step 1: $23.35 Step 2: $23.94 Step 3: $24.57 Step 4: $26.55 Program navigator Step 1: $22.11 Step 2: $22.67 Step 3: $23.26 Step 4: $23.85 Counsellor Step 1: $23.82 Step 2: $24.42 Step 3: $25.06 Step 4: $27.08 Addictions counsellor Step 1: $25.69 Step 2: $26.33 Step 3: $27.03 Step 4: $29.21 Recreation assistant Step 1: $22.05 Step 2: $22.58 Step 3: $23.10 Step 4: $23.66 Recreation therapist Step 1: $35.82 Step 2: $36.80 Step 3: $37.81 Step 4: $38.84 Social worker Step 1: $37 Step 2: $37.88 Step 3: $39.05 Step 4: $40.10 Health-care aide (HCA) Step 1: $22.05 Step 2: $22.58 Step 3: $23.10 Step 4: $23.66 Licensed practical nurse (LPN) Step 1: $27.33 Step 2: $28.27 Step 3: $29.26 Step 4: $32.34 RN/RPN Step 1: $45.98 Step 2: $48.90 Step 3: $51.79 Step 4: $54.69 Editor's notes: Staff meetings: Employees required to attend staff meetings during regularly scheduled hours of work will do so without loss of pay. Employees who attend staff meetings on days off will be paid at basic hourly rate of pay for time in attendance or 3 hours' at minimum wage, whichever is greater. Training: Employer will provide medication distribution, CPR, universal precautions, basic first-aid training and basic mental-health first-aid training without loss of wages or cost to employee. Professional fees: $300 for full-time ($150 for part-time employees) for dues paid to professional college for licensed practical nurses. CONSTRUCTION Construction Labour Relations – Alberta Provincewide, Alberta (700 foremen, journeymen, apprentices, refrigeration, maintenance mechanics) and United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of e Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of e United States and Canada (UA), Local 488 Renewal agreement: Effective May 13, 2018 to April 30, 2022. Signed on May 17, 2018. Shift premium: 3% per hour for employees holding class A gas-fitter ticket. 10% above minimum journeyman-rate will be minimum wage-rate for foremen. 10% per hour for all work on second shift, maximum 8 hours (overtime rates will apply after 8 hours of second-shift work). Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 6% va- cation pay will be paid to each employee on each pay period; 7% after 10 years of service; 9% after 20 years of service. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after regular hours, and on Saturday or Sunday. Double time for all work on holidays. Double time for all work after 16 straight hours. Meal allowance: Employer will pay employee cost of hot meal after 10 hours of work and on each subsequent 4 hours worked thereafter. Pension: Employer will con- tribute to Alberta Refrigeration Industry Pension Trust Fund. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (spouse, parents, parents of spouse, grandparents, grandchil- dren, siblings, children). Should more time be required, addition- al unpaid leave will be given. Safety shoes: $350 every 2 years for steel-toed safety boots, after 3 months of service. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will supply all protective cloth- ing and safety equipment, as required. Employer will supply proper respiratory and hearing protection as required; suitable work gloves and safety glasses with UV protection. Employer will pay 100% of costs for uni- forms, coveralls. Tool allowance: If employee's tools are lost or destroyed due to fire, flood or forcible entry of personal tool box, job box, job shack, or other secured location while on job site, they will immediately be replaced by employer. Any employee's tools which are stolen by forcible entry or destroyed while con- tained within employer-owned or operated vehicle at any loca- tion, will be replaced immedi- ately by employer. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Refrigeration mechanics Foreman 110%: $53.85 Journeyman 100%: $48.95 Fourth-year apprentice 85%: $41.61 Third-year apprentice 75%: $36.71 Second-year apprentice 60%: $29.37 First-year apprentice 50%: $24.48

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