Canadian Labour Reporter

in public cemetery. 1 pay level increase from employee's reg- ular rate of pay for lead-hands. $1 per hour for operators who drive equipment involved in sanding and salting or plowing snow. Paid holidays: 12 days. Vacations with pay: 3 weeks (pro-rated) or 6% to start, 3 weeks or 6% after 3 years, 4 weeks or 8% after 6 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 14 years, 6 weeks or 12% after 21 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for work in excess of normal scheduled workday; double time after 3 hours of overtime. Double time for all overtime on Saturdays, Sundays, statu- tory holidays (exception that overtime performed between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Satur- days will be paid at time and one–half ). Maximum 80 hours may be accumulated each year and must be taken by May 31 of following year or will be paid out in June. Meal allowance: $17 when overtime shifts are offered less than 24 hours before start of overtime: 1 meal allow- ance will apply at 3 hours of overtime worked and each additional 4 hours of overtime worked thereafter. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums for Medical Services Plan of B.C. Employer pays 75% of premi- ums, employee pays 25% of premiums for employee assis- tance plan. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Coverage of or- thodontics reimbursed at 50% of approved fee schedule, life- time maximum of $3,500 for each dependent child. Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums. $500 every 2 years (previously $400 every 2 years), exclusive of optom- etrist fees. Sick leave: 18 days per year. Maximum 120 days may be accumulated during period of collective agreement. Maxi- mum 3 days per year (previ- ously 5 days per year) for illness of dependent child or member of immediate family. LTD: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums for coverage of 60% of normal basic earnings, maximum $3,500 per month. AD&D: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $100,000. Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums for cover- age of $100,000. Pension: Employees will be covered by terms of municipal pension plan rules made under Municipal Pension Plan Joint Trustee Agreement. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate fam- ily (father, mother, spouse, common-law spouse (spouse will mean person who con- tinues to and has cohabitated with employee for minimum 1 year and who is publicly rep- resented as spouse), children, stepchildren, brothers, sisters, parents-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, stepparents, grandchildren, grandparents of employee (sister-in-law, brother-in-law, parents-in-law, stepparents include married and common-law relation- ships). Seniority – recall rights: 18 months for layoffs. Call-in pay: 4 hours of pay at regular rates or for actual time worked at applicable overtime rates, whichever is greater. Probationary period: 60 days worked or 4 calendar months from date of hiring, whichever is lesser. Safety shoes: $300 every 24 months for purchase or repair of steel-toed safety boots or approved safety footwear. Uniforms/clothing: Em- ployer will provide $125 per year swimsuit /wetsuit allow- ance for mutually agreeable swimwear. Gloves, coveralls will be supplied to employees who work with hot asphalt, clean plugged sanitary sewers, sewer-truck clean-up. Tool allowance: $350 per year for employees required by employer to supply own tools, as condition of employ- ment. $50 once every 2 years for raingear. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 6.1% in- crease): 7-hour day schedule B Level 1: $25.91 rising 3 steps to $27.50 Level 2: $27.02 rising 3 steps to $28.67 Level 3: $28.13 rising 3 steps to $29.85 Level 4: $29.26 rising 3 steps to $31.06 Level 5: $30.38 rising 3 steps to $32.24 Level 6: $31.50 rising 3 steps to $33.43 Level 7: $32.62 rising 3 steps to $34.62 Level 8: $33.73 rising 3 steps to $35.79 Level 9: $34.87 rising 3 steps to $37.01 Level 10: $35.99 rising 3 steps to $38.19 Level 11: $37.51 rising 3 steps to $39.81 Level 12: $39.88 rising 3 steps to $42.32 Level 13: $42.54 rising 3 steps to $45.15 Level 14: $45.50 rising 3 steps to $48.29 Level 15: $48.83 rising 3 steps to $51.83 Level 16: $52.39 rising 3 steps to $55.60 Level 17: $56.21 rising 3 steps to $59.65 Level 18: $60.30 rising 3 steps to $63.99 Level 19: $64.63 rising 3 steps to $68.58 Classification Level 7 (police information clerk/police records clerk/ police support clerk/public works maintenance/real es- tate clerk/records manage- ment clerk/refuse collector/ operator/secretary finance/ secretary parks/steno building inspections/steno bylaw/steno engineering services/steno planning switchboard opera- tor permit centre clerk/switch- board operator police user rates clerk/watch clerk: $32.62 rising 3 steps to $34.62 Level 8 (40-hr operator dis- patcher/accounting clerk parks/building services tech- nician/clerk dispatcher public works/client support special- ist/collections clerk finance/ communications clerk/engi- neering clerk construction/ equipment operator public works/exhibit and prop- erty clerk/facilities technician parks/logistics clerk/parks equipment operator 3/parks utility worker carpentry/per- mit centre information clerk/ police administration clerk/ property clerk: $33.73 rising 3 steps to $35.79 Level 11 7-hr day (assistant accountant capital assets/en- gineering development techni- cian/engineering traffic tech- nologist/GIS technologist/ occupational health and safety coordinator/programmer/net- work analyst/records/informa- tion and privacy coordinator/ senior surveyor: $38.04 rising 3 steps to $40.37 Apprenticeship First 6 mos.: 70% of trades rate Second 6 mos.: 72.5% of trades rate Third 6 mos.: 75% of trades rate Fourth 6 mos.: 77.5% of trades rate Fifth 6 mos.: 80% of trades rate Sixth 6 mos.: 82.5% of trades rate Seventh 6 mos.: 85% of trades rate Eighth 6 mos.: 90% of trades rate Editor's notes: Mandatory training/meetings: Minimum 2 hours of pay for employee who is directed by employer to at- tend mandatory training or mandatory meetings on scheduled day off. Standby allowance: 2 hours' wages at regular rate of pay for each regular working day employee is on call; 3 hours' for each non-working day employee is on call. Training and development: $2,000 (or more) in any 24-month period for employees to attend training and development activities that are not required for performance of their positions. < from pg. 1 Mandatory training/meetings: Minimum 2 hours of pay for employee who attends training or meetings on day off. 3 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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