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January 13, 2020

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3 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2019 for any straight-time hours worked between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. Monday through Sunday. $2 per hour for employee working in higher-level capacity. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 80 hours to start, 120 hours after 6 years, 160 hours after 11 years, 200 hours after 16 years. Overtime: Time and one- half for all work after 8 or 10 hours per day or 40 hours per week. Time may be banked, maximum 80 hours. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums for Alberta Health Care Insurance. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Sick leave: 1 day per month, maximum 85 days. LTD: Employee pays 100% of premiums. AD&D: Employee pays 100% of premiums. Life insurance: Employee pays 100% of premiums. Pension: Employer, employee will each pay their share of premiums of employer's pension plan or to any future plan. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (son, daughter, current partner, common- law partner, mother, father, sister, brother, stepparents, stepchildren, stepsiblings, stepgrandchildren, parent of current partner, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, grandparent of partner, legal guardian). 2 additional days for travel time, if distance travelled is more than 450 kilometres away from Grande Prairie. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours of pay at overtime rates. Probationary period: First 480 hours served. Discipline: Sunset clause is 12 months. Safety shoes: $150 per year for full-time; $75 per year for part-time employees, for employees with 480 hours of service and who require safety footwear, gloves as condition of employment. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 26% increase): Custodian 1: $18.13 rising 4 steps to $22.82 Custodian 2: $20.64 rising 4 steps to $25.98 Guest-service attendant: $16.98 rising 4 steps to $21.38 Facility operator 1: $24.41 rising 4 steps to $30.73 Facility operator 2: $25.02 rising 4 steps to $31.50 Fieldhouse attendant: $18.18 rising 4 steps to $22.82 Camp instructor: $18.18 rising 4 steps to $22.82 Lead-camp instructor: $22.44 rising 4 steps to $28.24 Editor's notes: Standby: 1 hour of pay at current rate per day on weekdays; 1 hour of pay at rate of pay plus appropriate shift premiums per day. In addition to standby pay, employee will be paid minimum 3 hours of at rate of pay for each call out. Driver's medical examinations: Employer will reimburse employee for all costs of driver's license medical examinations if employee who requires classification of driver's license (if medical examination is needed). SEAFOOD Ocean Choice International Bonavista/South Dildo/Port aux Choix/Triton, N.L. (550 production, maintenance employees) and the FFAW-Unifor (Fish, Food & Allied Workers) union Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2020. Signed on April 3, 2018. Shift premium: $0.30 per hour for all excessively dirty work (cleaning boilers, dirty tanks); when working on ladders, floating scaffolding, scaffolding at heights of 20 feet or more; above level of wheelhouse roof; when required to work in confined spaces. Time and one- half for all hours worked before 7 a.m. and after 6 p.m. or hours after 8 hours worked between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Bonavista plant. $1.50 for all hours worked on Saturday. $2.50 in addition for all hours worked on Sunday. $0.20 per hour for chargehands. $0.15 per hour on all hours worked on 4 p.m. to midnight shift; $0.25 cents per hour on all hours worked on midnight to 8 a.m. shift for employees working 3 rotating shifts. $2.50 per hour to certified journeyman welders where work performed requires certificate. $0.10 per hour while welding aluminum, galvanized, stainless steel. Paid holidays: 8 days. Vacations with pay: 4% of time off to start, 6% of time off after 5 years, 8% of time off after 14 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 8 or 10 hours per day (shrimp operations) or 40 hours per week. Time and one-half for all work in excess of 80 hours per 2-week period. Time and one-half for hours worked on pelagics in excess of 40 hours per week (Triton employees). Double time for work on Sunday (Dildo only). Time and one-half for work on Sunday plus $2 per hour for shrimp operations. Time and one-half for all hours worked on Sunday by production workers in Bonavista and Triton in job grades 1 to 4. Double time for all work after 11 hours in 24-hour period, double time and one-half for work after 15 hours. Meal allowance: $12 maximum value for meal, when overtime is not scheduled in advance and continues without break from employee's regular shift and is more than 2 hours, for maintenance employees. Sick leave: 1 day after 30 days or seniority; 1 additional day after 850 hours per year; 1 additional day after 1,500 days per year. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (spouse (including common-law) child, brother, sister, parent, legal guardian, grandchild). 3 days for death of mother-in-law, father-in-law. 2 days for death of brother-in- law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, great-grandparent. 1 extra day when funeral takes place outside province and is attended by employee. Seniority – recall rights: 24 months while on layoff; 1 year when seniority employee is promoted to permanent vacancy or to new position outside bargaining unit. Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours' at appropriate rate (employees will not be required to work on jobs unrelated to purpose of call-in). Probationary period: 30 working days. Discipline: Sunset clause is 9 months worked. Uniforms/clothing: Employer, union local at each location will agree on free issue of clothing articles and frequency of additional issues. Upon commencement of employment, each new hire will receive 1 free issue of clothing articles specified for classification in which employee has been hired. Where applicable, protective clothing will be supplied by employer. Employer will provide safety-hat liners, welding jackets, welding gloves (for helpers), smoke extractors, ear protection, safety gloves, acid coveralls, safety harness, access to toxic gas monitor, cutting goggles, air-circulating helmet (1 per maintenance operation (plant, marine)). Tool allowance: $0.20 per hour CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS < from pg. 1

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