Canadian Labour Reporter

GOVERNMENT City of Regina Regina (1,250 municipal workers) and the Regina Outside City Workers', Local 21 Chartered Local of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2021. Signed on Feb. 1, 2020. Shift premium: 10% of cur- rent pay for maximum 1 year of maternity, parental, adoption leave as supplemental allowance (subject to signing 1-year (or pro-rated equivalent) return-of- service agreement). Minimum $0.10 per hour for temporary work of higher classification. 10% of current pay or minimum rate for higher position, which- ever is greater, for employee required by management to temporarily act in higher paid position out of scope of either CUPE, Local 7 or CUPE, Lo- cal 21 bargaining units. $1.25 per hour for all hours worked between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. (differential will only be paid to shifts beginning before 7 a.m. or ending after 5 p.m.). $0.50 per hour for all hours worked be- tween midnight Friday and mid- night Sunday. $0.75 per hour to employees assigned to work involving cleaning out sewers, manholes, mains and connec- tions, road-oiling trucks, tar- kettle person, sewer-scraping equipment. $0.75 per hour, dur- ing May through September, to leadman, equipment operators, landfill attendants at landfill and to parks maintenance employ- ees engaged in spring cleanup of grass boulevards. $0.75 per hour while working inside of baghouse or other components of dust collection system; work- ing inside screen-deck area; working inside hot bins or cold bins; working inside pug mill; working inside hot elevator or weigh hoppers; working inside asphalt storage silos; working inside dryer; working inside transfer conveyor or slat con- veyors. $0.75 per hour to weld- ers, mechanics for all dirty work performed while working on garbage trucks. Paid holidays: 12 days. Vacations with pay: 0.06 hours per hour of service, maximum 212.5 hours, to start, 0.08 hours per hour of service, maximum 255 hours, after 7 years, 0.1 hours per hour of service, maximum 297.5 hours, after 15 years, 0.12 hours per hour of service, maximum 340 hours, after 23 years. Overtime: Double time for all work after 8 hours in 1 day or 40 hours in 1 week. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums for medical plan. Employer will provide $200 per year health spending account for all em- ployees covered by medical plan. Dental: Employer will provide 50/50 cost-shared plan for em- ployees who have attained 2,069 hours of service. Sick leave: 0.06 hours per hour of service maximum 1,828 hours. After 10 years of service and with minimum 30 days of credits, employee will be paid 50% of all accumulated sick leave employee may have or 78 days, whichever is lesser, on severance of employment (ex- cept for dismissal). If employee is laid off, sick leave credits will be retained for 12 months. After 12 months, credits will either be cancelled or 50% vested interest to which they are entitled will be paid out. Bereavement leave: 40 consec- utive working hours for death in immediate family (spouse, child, mother, father, legal guardian, sister, brother, equivalent step- relationship). 24 consecutive working hours for death in extended family (mother-in- law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, common-law spouse's extended family, equivalent step-relationship). 1 day for death of close friend. Additional 8 hours for funerals held outside Regina. Employee may utilize maximum 16 hours of leave to be taken within 1 year following initial leave, for de- ferred ceremonies. One-half day will be given to employee acting as pallbearer at funeral. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. Call-in pay: Minimum of 4 hours of work at double time. May be banked and taken as time off in lieu. Probationary period: 3 months of employment. Safety shoes: $100 for 1 pair of CSA-approved safety boots per year; further reimbursement — on 50/50 basis maximum $100 — for 1 pair of CSA-approved winter safety boots per year, for all employees. Tool allowance: $200 on Jan. 1 of each year for all journeyper- son, apprentice mechanics. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Major-facility cashier $16.36 Caretaker (non fireman's)/ labourer/sanitary landfill at- tendant First year: $19.54 Second year: $23.42 Aquatic training specialist/care- taker (fireman's)/equipment operator 1/hydrant serviceper- son/semi-skilled labourer/truck helper (mechanical packer)/ waste water treatment operator (training) First year: $23.76 Second year: $24.41 Cemeterian 1/equipment op- erator 2/facilities operator 1/ fuel-truck operator/horticultur- ist 1/irrigation worker 1/lead caretaker/utility person First year: $24.41 Second year: $25.05 Asphalt raker/pavement saw operator/serviceman/skilled labourer/tandem-truck opera- tor/traffic marker/truck driver (sewer and water) First year: $25.05 Second year: $25.70 Container maintenance repair- person/forester 1/form setter/ sign-shop worker/small cold planer operator/tradesperson 1 mechanical/traffic underground installer First year: $25.70 Second year: $26.48 Automated side-loader op- erator/bottom man/city hall building operator/equipment operator 3/horticulturist 2/hy- drant repairperson/mechanical side-loader operator/nursery worker 2/repairperson LLP/saw operator concrete services/solid waste truck operator/traffic de- tours restriction controller/traf- fic sign fabricator/water supply maintenance repairperson First year: $26.48 Second year: $27.12 Asphalt plant operator/block and brick layer/cemeterian 2/ equipment operator 4/leadman/ maintenance repairperson (fa- cilities)/manhole builder/sewer jet hydrovac operator/tire re- pairperson/trades 1 distribution system services/trades 1 sewage services/tradesperson 1 First year: $27.12 Second year: $27.91 Building and yard maintenance operator/container capital pro- gram lead-person/container maintenance lead-person/crew lead, roadway operations (op. 3 exception)/crew lead, traffic operations/crew lead, traffic pavement marking/foreman 1/ horticulturist 3/irrigation worker 2/leadman, facilities operations/ leadman, golf course/leadman, landscape trades/leadman, parks maintenance/maintenance repairperson pools and rinks/ maintenance welder/nursery worker 3/weed inspector First year: $27.91 Second year: $28.72 Crew lead, hydrants/crew lead, landfill operations/crew lead, meters/crew lead, roadway op- erations/crew lead, solid waste collection/foreman, landfill forester 2/landscape construc- tion technician/maintenance operator First year: $28.72 Second year: $29.46 Crew lead, asphalt plant/crew lead, asphalt screed/crew lead, cold planer/crew lead, con- crete services/crew lead, grade finisher/crew lead, mains and valves/crew lead, mud jacking/ crew lead, water and sewer con- struction/foreman, parks main- tenance/leadman, O.S.S. parks district/mechanical helper pre- ventative maintenance First year: $29.46 Second year: $30.14 Arborist/foreman, landscape/ irrigation worker 3/pest control officer/senior maintenance operator/small tools and equip- ment specialist First year: $30.14 Second year: $31.15 January 25, 2021 6 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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