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A SASKATCHEWAN worker is
entitled to a maternity leave top-
up based on the EI benefits she
would have received before out-
side earnings were accounted for
that reduced those benefits, an
arbitrator has ruled.
Legal Aid Saskatchewan (LAS)
is an organization providing legal
services to persons and organiza-
tions for criminal and civil matters
who are financially unable to obtain
those services. It employs lawyers,
legal assistants and administrative
staff throughout Saskatchewan.
LAS had a collective agree-
ment that provided employees
New members
Fifty-six employees from
Richmond, B.C. fitness centres
join CUPE after labour board
confirmation
INDUSTRIAL GASES
Praxair Canada
Edmonton
(41 plant, administrative employees) and Teamsters, Local 987
Renewal agreement: Effective
March 13, 2020 to March 12,
2023. Ratified on Oct. 31, 2020.
Signed on March 13, 2020.
Wage adjustments:
Effective March 13, 2020: $0.25
per hour
Effective March 13, 2021: $0.65
per hour
Effective March 13, 2022: $0.85
per hour
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
Photo:
Serjio74
(iStock)
see Agreement's > pg.8
CPR worker says using WiFi-like device
while on vacation in Cuba accidental
A RAILWAY worker's 20-day suspension for rack-
ing up $30,000 in data usage charges with a compa-
ny device while on vacation has been upheld by an
arbitrator.
Darren Miller was a signals and communica-
tions maintainer for Canadian Pacific Railway
(CPR). He was hired in 1991 and was last disci-
plined in 1995.
CPR provided Miller with mobile communica-
tions devices, including one that had a "MiFi" — a
wireless router that connects to wireless data and
generates a mobile hotspot for other devices to con-
nect to the internet. Miller used the MiFi to upload
his daily reports, inspections, and time worked
each day.
Batteries in the MiFi device lasted for about six
hours before they needed to be recharged and a
single gigabyte (GB) of data generally would allow
someone to browse the internet for about 12 hours
or watch two hours of standard-definition video.
April 5, 2021
see 20-day> pg.8
City of Kamloops — British Columbia pg. 3 Sobeys Capital
(Safeway Operations/Northern Meats & Deli) — Alberta pg.
4 Waste Connections of Canada (Simcoe) — Ontario pg.5
Evergreen Forestry Limited Partnership — Northwest
Territories pg.6 Autoliv Canada — Ontario pg.7
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
pg. 2
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Second employment not factor
in maternity leave EI top-up
