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Manager at Ottawa transit agency
allowed to help out with schedule work
A MEMBER of management was allowed to help
out with the duties of his former bargaining-unit
position during the transition to a new person in
the role, an Ontario arbitrator has ruled.
In September 2018, OC Transpo, the pub-
lic transit agency for the City of Ottawa, placed
a worker in a temporary assignment as a senior
booking and time transaction officer (SBO),
where her duties included preparing and main-
taining the master schedule for staff in the fleet
and facilities branch.
The booking process for the master sched-
ule was done every spring and fall and always in-
volved overtime work for the SBO. The booking
decisions are determined by meetings with man-
agement and the SBO over a period of two to three
months.
When the worker assumed the SBO role, the
booking process had already begun, and it was
more complicated than usual due to uncertainty
SkyTrain strike ends
Eleventh-hour deal results in
900 workers back on job
Hydro Ottawa worker rushed repair
job, committed safety violations
AN ONTARIO worker's bad day
— with one safety violation after
another — was enough to termi-
nate his employment, an arbitra-
tor has ruled.
The worker was employed
with Hydro Ottawa, the operator
of the electric utility in Ottawa.
He initially joined as an appren-
tice in 2011 and became a power
line technician in 2015 — a safety
sensitive position that involved
building and maintaining electri-
cal systems.
Safety was a priority for Hydro
Ottawa and it had rules requiring
TRANSPORTATION
Trimac Transportation
Port Colborne, Ont.
(10 drivers) and the Eastern Canada Council of Teamsters, Locals 938, 879
Renewal agreement: Effective
Feb. 1, 2019 to Jan. 31, 2020.
Signed on April 15, 2019.
Shift premium: $4 per hour
(previously $2.50 per hour) for
employees doing training.
Paid holidays: 9 days (paid at
10 hours).
Vacations with pay: 2 weeks
or 4% after 1 year, 3 weeks or
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Bay Ferries — Multiprovince pg. 3 Shaw Pipe Protection
— Alberta pg. 4 Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel
— British Columbia pg. 4 Charron Transport — Ontario pg. 5
Sil Industrial Materials — Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Marc
Bruxelle
(iStock)
see Employee > pg. 7
see Nature > pg. 7
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