Canadian Labour Reporter

5 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2020 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS CASINOS Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Cascades Casino Penticton Penticton, B.C. (700 casino employees) and MoveUP (Canadian Office and Professional Employees' Union), Local 378 Renewal agreement: Effective June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2022. Ratified on Feb. 5, 2019. Signed on Feb. 5, 2019. Wage adjustments: Effective June 1, 2019: 2.75% Effective June 1, 2020: 2.75% Effective June 1, 2021: 2.75% Shift premium: $1.25 per hour for all hours worked from mid- night until 8 a.m. $2 per hour for employees required to sub- stitute for supervisors. $1 per hour for employees required to function as lead-hand. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 2 weeks to start, 3 weeks after 3 years, 4 weeks after 7 years. Vacation may be carried over from 1 year to next provided time is taken before March 31. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $350 per person which includes cost of eye examinations. Sick leave: 32 hours per year, which may be taken in 2-hour increments. LTD: Employee pays 100% of premiums. Pension: Employer will con- tribute to voluntary group RRSP on basis that matches employee's contribution of 2% of base bay. Employees may make additional voluntary un- matched contributions to RRSP. Bereavement leave: 3 days in province (4 days out of province) for death of spouse, common-law spouse, same-sex spouse, son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother, mother- in-law, father-in-law, grand- parent, grandparent-in-law, stepbrother, stepsister, broth- er-in-law, sister-in-law, grand- child, any other person who was acting in loco parentis. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months for layoffs. Probationary period: 6 months or 75 shifts, whichever comes sooner. Discipline: Sunset clause is 18 months for any adverse report of punitive nature; 12 months for any letter of expectation. Severance: 1 weeks' pay per year of service. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Starting rate: $17.65 Step 1: $18.25 Step 2: $18.78 Step 3: $19.30 Step 4: $19.84 Step 5: $20.36 Step 6: $20.89 Top rate: $21.31 Editor's notes: Special leave: Special-leave provisions will be without pay: 2 days for marriage of employee; 1 day for moving household effects; 1 day for Canadian citizenship hearings (provided employee provides 2 weeks notice of any requested leave). Annual flu shot: Employees will be entitled to voluntarily receive annual flu shot with em- ployer covering cost of shot. On-call seniority: On-call employee who accrues minimum of 500 working hours (ac- cumulated on straight-time basis) will become seniority rated on-call employee with seniority thereafter equivalent to hours worked. EDUCATION Medicine Hat Public School Division Medicine Hat, Alta. (280 educational assistants, early childhood educator, bookkeepers, library assistants, administrative assistants, caretakers, custodians, technical employees) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 829 Renewal agreement: Effec- tive Sept. 1, 2019 to Aug. 31, 2023. Ratified on Nov. 21, 2019. Signed on Jan. 22, 2020. Wage adjustments: Effective Sept. 1, 2018: 2% Effective Sept. 1, 2019: 0% Effective Sept. 1, 2020: 0% Effective Sept. 1, 2021: 0% Effective Sept. 1, 2022: 0% Shift premium: $1 per hour for evening shifts worked (to be considered evening shift, shift must begin on or after 3:30 p.m.). $3 per hour for EAs replacing ECEs as their sub. $1 per hour for caretakers shifts that begin on or after 3:30 p.m. Paid holidays: 12 days, plus one-half day for Christmas Eve day, New Year's Eve day. Vacations with pay: 1.25 days per month or 6% to start, 3 weeks after 1 year, 4 weeks or 8% after 6 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 14 years, 6 weeks or 12% after 22 years for employees hired before Sept 1. 2007. 1.25 days per month or 6% to start, 1.66 days per month or 8% after 6 years, 2.08 days per month or 10% after 14 years, 2.5 days per month or 12% after 22 years for employees hired after Sept 1. 2007. Overtime: Time and one-half, plus allowances, for first 4 hours after 8 hours of work per day; double time thereafter. Time and one-half for all hours worked on Saturdays, Sundays. Overtime will not be paid un- less employee works more than 40 hours per week. May be taken as time off in lieu and must be taken during school year earned. If time off in lieu cannot be taken by end of June in any school year, time will be paid out. If employee works more than maximum days and hours during summer, employ- ee will be paid at overtime rate of time and one-half or time in lieu. After employee has ac- cumulated overtime, equivalent to 24 hours of straight time, any excess time will be paid out to employee. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of cost of Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan. Employer pays 100% of cost of ASEBP Extended Health Care - Plan 1. Sick leave: 1 working day per month, maximum 65 working days. Annual flu shot: Employees will be entitled to voluntarily receive annual flu shot with employer covering cost of shot.

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