Canadian Labour Reporter

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS hours after 1 year, 160 hours after 8 years, 200 hours after 17 years, 240 hours after 21 years for employees working 40 hours per week. Overtime: Time and one-half for work outside scheduled hours constituting employee's normal workday or normal workweek; double time after 2 hours of overtime. Double time for work on employee's days of rest. May be taken as time off in lieu but unused banked time will be paid out once yearly. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums for medical services plan and extended health plan. Eligible employees will be entitled to wellness payment, paid to em- ployee on bi-weekly basis. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Basic dental ser- vices: 100% of approved sched- ule of fees; prosthetics, crowns, bridges: 60% of approved schedule of fees with annual maximum of $750, lifetime maximum of $4,000; orthodon- tics: 50% of approved schedule of fees, maximum lifetime limit of $2,000. Sick leave: 0.5 days per month, maximum 10 days accrual. AD&D: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums. Life insurance: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums. Pension: Public Sector Pension Plans Act applies to employer and employees. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate fam- ily (child, stepchild, parents, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchild, stepparent, foster- child, foster-parent, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, fiancée, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law). 2 additional days for death of spouse, parent, child, step- child. One-half day to attend funeral as pallbearer, Seniority – recall rights: 1 year for layoffs; 36 months for employees who are absent from work because of sickness or ac- cident. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours of work or 2 hours of pay at double-time rate. Probationary period: 3 months. Period will be extend- ed for any absence of employee longer than 5 days and may be extended by mutual agreement between parties. Relief employ- ees will be placed on relief staff seniority list when they have worked 1,500 hours in preced- ing 24 months. Severance: 1 week's pay for each year of seniority, maxi- mum 10 weeks, for employees who are displaced by contract- ing out of job. Safety shoes: $150 every 24 months for reimbursement for employee (with greater than 1 year of service) and who is required to wear approved footwear. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): 35 hours per week positions Museum preparator Step 1: $22.09 Switchboard operator RCMP Step 2: $23.33 Step 3: $24.55 Accounting clerk 1/clerk steno 1 RCMP/clerk typist/adminis- tration/receptionist/summer tax clerk/switchboard opera- tor/receptionist Step 1: $22.84 Step 2: $24.11 Step 3: $25.38 Clerk steno traffic RCMP/data clerk/museum assistant/recep- tionist/cashier Step 1: $23.56 Step 2: $24.87 Step 3: $26.17 Cashier clerk/secretary Step 1: $24.66 Step 2: $26.03 Step 3: $27.41 City yards clerk/development services clerk/electric utility clerk/procurement clerk/court liaison RCMP 1/CPIC coordi- nator RCMP/exhibit control custodian RCMP/occurrence/ information officer RCMP/ records admin clerk RCMP/ watch clerk RCMP/rod person Step 1: $25.76 Step 2: $27.18 Step 3: $28.62 Accounting clerk 2/build- ing and licence clerk 1/bylaw intake administrator 2/collec- tions clerk/recreation clerk/ utilities clerk Step 1: $26.99 Step 2: $28.49 Step 3: $29.99 Coordinator aquatic programs/ computer operator/design clerk/plan checking assistant/ recreation coordinator/tax clerk/utility clerk technician Step 1: $28.33 Step 2: $29.91 Step 3: $31.48 Accounting clerk 3/electronic file disclosure and admin coor- dinator RCMP/plan checker/ assistant inspector/inventory associate/reader/records spe- cialist RCMP/survey techni- cian 1 Step 1: $29.73 Step 2: $31.39 Step 3: $33.04 Accounting clerk 4/accounting clerk payables/assistant land administrator/planning clerk Step 1: $30.84 Step 2: $32.56 Step 3: $34.27 Client support technician/sur- vey technician 3 Step 1: $31.96 Step 2: $33.73 Step 3: $35.52 Building official 2/develop- ment technologist/GIS analyst/ licensing and property use inspector 2/network systems analyst/planner specialist/ plumbing official cross connec- tion coordinator 1 Step 1: $36.41 Step 2: $38.43 Step 3: $40.45 Co-op students Up to third term Pay grade 5 to 8: 70% of step 1 Pay grade 9 and 10: 65% of step 1 Pay grade 11 to 15: 60% of step 1 Third and subsequent terms Pay grade 5 to 8: 75% of step 1 Pay grade 9 and 10: 70% of step 1 Pay grade 11 to 15: 65% of step 1 Editor's notes: Standby (on call): 2 hours of pay for each normal work day on which employee was on call and also worked regular 8-hour shift; 3 hours of pay for each day of rest or statutory holiday on which employee was on call. Double time for employee who carries out nightly snow checks. Job-related liability protection: Employee, coming within scope of CUPE, Local No. 608, will be granted services of city solicitor, without charge, to represent employee, who as result of any matter arising out of or in course of normal work duties or assignments, is personally involved in legal or court action. RETAIL GROCERY Sobeys Capital (Safeway Operations/Southern Meats & Deli) Calgary, Canmore, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Brooks, Alta. (779 grocery store employees) and the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), Local 401 Renewal agreement: Effec- tive Aug. 10, 2020 to Aug. 9, 2025. Ratified on Aug. 10, 2020. Signed on Aug. 10, 2020. Wage adjustments: Effective Aug. 16, 2020: 1.5% (for all active top rate or over- scale employees) Effective Aug. 16, 2021: 1% (for all active top rate or over-scale employees) Effective Aug. 16, 2022: 1% (for all active top rate or over-scale employees) Shift premium: Double time for work performed greater than 5 hours without meal pe- riod. $2 dollars per hour shift for each full hour worked be- tween 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. $0.85 per hour when employee is as- signed to relieve meat manager (head meat cutter) for 2 days or more in 1 week. $1 hour for 5 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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