Canadian Labour Reporter

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS days after 10 years. Maximum 5 days of vacation time may be carried over into following year but must be used by April 1 of subsequent vacation year. Employee may be permitted to carry over vacation time in ex- cess of 10-day minimum vaca- tion requirement from current year in order to take extended vacation in subsequent vaca- tion year. Overtime: Time and one-half for hours in excess of 40 per week and all hours on statu- tory holidays; prior approval required. Meal allowance: $65 per day for out-of-town installers. Medical benefits: Health and dental plan jointly funded: Employer pays 75% of premi- ums, employee pays 25% of premiums. Effective July 1, 2020: Employer pays 80% of premiums, employee pays 20% of premiums. Effective July 1, 2021: Employer pays 85% of premiums, employee pays 15% of premiums. Pension: Employee contrib- utes 1%, employer matches contribution to RRSP. Bereavement leave: 3 working days for death of spouse, child, stepchild or foster child; 2 working days for death of employee's or spouse's parent, sibling, sibling-in-law, grandparent, grandchild or stepgrandchild; 1 working day for death of employee's or spouse's sib- ling-in-law or child-in-law. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months for continuous layoffs or for promotion to position beyond scope of agreement. Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours' work or pay for employ- ees who have completed regu- lar shift and are called back after leaving. Probationary period: 55 working days. Safety shoes: $150 every 18 months (12 months for install- ers) for safety footwear for non-probationary employees. Uniforms/clothing: Employer provides at least 2 pairs of suitable protective clothing to welders, custom shop workers, industrial machinists, metal machine operators. $160 every 12 months for safety glasses through employer's third-party program. Employees will be responsible for cost above $160 (glasses purchased outside of employer's plan will not be eligible for reimbursement). 3 pairs of workpants and 5 T- shirts per year for installers. Tool allowance: Employer provides tools necessary for in- stallers to perform their work. Any lost, misplaced or dam- aged tools to be replaced at ex- pense of installer unless it was beyond control of installer. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 5% increase): Production assistant: Start rate: $15.84 rising 2 steps to $16.64 1-year rate: $16 rising 2 steps to $16.81 2-year rate: $16.15 rising 2 steps to $16.97 Production team member 1 Start rate: $16.46 rising 2 steps to $17.29 1-year rate: $16.63 rising 2 steps to $17.47 2-year rate: $16.79 rising 2 steps to $17.64 Production team member 2 Start rate: $17.23 rising 2 steps to $18.10 1-year rate: $17.68 rising 2 steps to $18.58 2-year rate: $18.13 rising 2 steps to $19.05 Production specialist 1 Start rate: $18.95 rising 2 steps to $19.91 1-year rate: $19.45 rising 2 steps to $20.44 2-year rate: $19.95 rising 2 steps to $20.96 Team leader, production spe- cialist 2 Start rate: $21.23 rising 2 steps to $22.30 1-year rate: $21.78 rising 2 steps to $22.88 2-year rate: $22.35 rising 2 steps to $23.48 Production specialist 3 Start rate: $24.20 rising 2 steps to $25.43 1-year rate: $24.84 rising 2 steps to $26.09 2-year rate: $25.47 rising 2 steps to $26.76 Skilled trades Start rate: $31.46 rising 2 steps to $33.05 1-year rate: $32.29 rising 2 steps to $33.92 2-year rate: $33.11 rising 2 steps to $34.78 Editor's notes: Reporting pay: Minimum of 4 hours' work or pay for reporting for regularly scheduled work without notice not to report. Personal leave: Employer may grant unpaid leave of absence with written request at least 1 month in advance. Temporary transfers: Employees transferred for convenience of employer for one full shift or more to an- other position with different rate of pay will receive higher of own pay or other position's pay. Red-circled employees: Employees whose hourly wage is higher than wage grid are eligible for annual compounded bonus: 2.5% in year 1, 5.06% in year 2, 7.69% in year 3. Travel time: Installers doing out-of-town installations paid for travel time in addition to work hours for 2 hours in each way, to and from installation site, calculated to nearest quarter-hour, based on de- parture and arrival times on airline tickets. Personal-expense allowance: Installers are entitled to maximum $65 cash allowance per day for personal expenses incurred out of town when installers stay overnight. Installers are permitted to keep any unused cash allowance at end of trip. EDUCATION St. Albert Public School Division St. Albert, Alta. (367 school-support employees) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1099 Renewal agreement: Effective Sept. 1, 2019 to Aug. 31, 2022. Ratified on Dec. 11, 2019. Signed on April 8, 2020. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: Employee will take vacation time accord- ing to pre-arranged schedule with timing dependent on operational requirements. Employer may allow employee to carry forward maximum 10 days' vacation time for 1 year. Overtime: Time and one-half for first 4 hours of overtime, double time thereafter. Paid after 7 hours for clerical em- ployees, 7.5 hours for custo- dial employees or 8 hours for maintenance employees per day. Double time for all work on regularly scheduled day off. May be taken as time off in lieu, maximum 40 hours ac- cumulation. Employees may request, by Nov. 15 of each year, payout of all or part of overtime not utilized through time off. Employees will be paid requested payout at end of December of each year. Medical benefits: Employ- ees eligible to participate will be members of Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan (ASEBP) as condition of em- Expense allowance: $65 cash per day for personal expenses incurred out of town when installers stay overnight. 5 Canadian HR Reporter, a HAB Press business 2020 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER

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