Canadian Labour Reporter

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS 36 hours worked by employee on 3x12 schedule. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Maximum $1,700 per year per covered person for all dental services. Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Coverage of $600 every 24 months for each employee and dependants. Paramedical: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage providing up to $1,200 per employee and each dependant per year. Maximum of $500 per year, no drug coverage for natu- ropathic service. STD: Employer pays 100% of premiums for up to $625 in weekly benefits. LTD: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $1,800 per month. Rises to $1,900 per month on Nov. 1, 2022. Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums for $45,000 of coverage. Pension: Employer matches employee contributions between 4% and 4.5%. Bereavement leave: 3 paid days for death of spouse, common-law spouse, child, grandchild, parent, sibling, parent-in-law. 1 paid day to attend funeral of child-in-law, sibling-in-law, grandparent, spouse's grandparent. For step- parents, employer will review on case-by-case basis. Seniority – recall rights: Length of employee's seniority to start; 18 months after 1 year of service; 24 months after 5 years of service. 1 year for absence while on worker's compensation, accident, sick- ness, LTD benefits. Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours' pay at either regular rate or overtime rate, whichever is applicable. Probationary period: 3 months of employment and 520 hours of work. Severance: 2 weeks for layoffs. For employees not returning following layoff period equal to employee's seniority: length of service for less than 1 year of service; 18 months after 1 year of service; 24 months after 5 years of service. Safety shoes: $700 per year for CSA-approved metatarsal safety boots. Tool allowance: $135 per year after completion of 1 year. $225 per year for maintenance employees. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 7% increase): Industrial furnace tech: $43.30 rising 2 steps to $45.50 Reliability technician/electrical point-person: $37.77 rising 2 steps to $39.69 Electrician: $37.22 rising 2 steps to $39.10 Mechanical point-person: $35.54 rising 2 steps to $37.34 Millwright: $34.98 rising 2 steps to $36.75 Certified machinist: $32.58 rising 2 steps to $34.23 Tool room point-person: $32.39 rising 2 steps to $34.03 Maintenance grade 1: $29.86 rising 2 steps to $31.37 Hille point-person: $29.04 rising 2 steps to $30.51 Hill S.U. and operate 5/ assembly point-person: $28.52 rising 2 steps to $29.96 Machinist grade 1/line 5 S.U. and operate/line 3 S.U. and operate: $28.41 rising 2 steps to $29.85 Line 4 S.U. and operate/S.U. spring make-up grad 1: $28.15 rising 2 steps to $29.57 Hille S.U. and operate 4: $27.53 rising 2 steps to $28.92 Inspector grad 1/shear S.U. and operate/NCR conversion operator: $27.23 rising in 1 step to $28.60 Automated bihardiness: $27.08 rising 2 steps to $28.45 S.U. grade 2/wrapper S.U. and operate/stress peen S.U. and operate/warehouse OP. grade 1: $26.70 rising 2 steps to $28.05 Inspector grade 2/spring assembler/heat treat and assy backup/make-up backup/ forklift operator: $26.22 rising 2 steps to $27.54 Hille S.U. and operate 1/ machine operator: $25.78 rising 2 steps to $27.09 Warehouse op. grade 2/utility: $25.27 rising 2 steps to $26.55 Signing bonus (less statutory deductions) Jan. 24, 2021: $1,200 Signing bonus (less statutory deductions) Nov. 1, 2021: $900 Apprentices First 1,000 hours worked: 65% of certified appendix A trade job rate Second 1,000 hours worked: 70% of certified appendix A trade job rate Third 1,000 hours worked: 75% of certified appendix A trade job rate Fourth 1,000 hours worked: 80% of certified appendix A trade job rate Fifth 1,000 hours worked: 85% of certified appendix A trade job rate Sixth 1,000 hours worked: 90% of certified appendix A trade job rate Seventh 1,000 hours worked: 95% of certified appendix A trade job rate Eighth 1,000 hours worked: not less than 95% of certified appendix A trade job rate Editor's notes: Prescription glasses: Employees may obtain safety prescription glasses or replacement lenses, including single-lens, bifocal, trifocal, UV tint to safety glasses at no cost once per year provided purchase is made from employer- approved optician and employer-approved frames and lenses. NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION UTILITY Apex Utilities Leduc, Alta. (128 technical, administrative employees) and Unifor, Local 1947 Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, 2022. Ratified on Feb. 20, 2021. Signed on April 21, 2021. Shift premium: $10 if working in positions falling within plant schedule, or $8.63 if working in positions falling within office schedule for employee tempo- rarily assigned for 1 or more working days, to position of (or to perform major portion of ) higher classification. $25.90 per day for employee who accepts to temporarily relieve in super- visory position for 1 or more full days. Paid holidays: 12 days. Vacations with pay: 15 days to start, 20 days after 8 years, 25 days after 15 years, 30 days after 24 years. Overtime: Double time for all work after 7.5 or 8 hours per day or 37.5 or 40 hours per week. Employees will be allowed to bank overtime up to maximum of 8 regular working days each year from Jan. 1 to end of 24th pay period. All overtime earned during 25th and 26th pay periods is not bankable and will be paid out as overtime. Meal allowance: Employees working more than 2 hours after end of normal day's work (and at 4-hour intervals there- after) will be supplied with meal or compensated for meal purchased up to maximum of current dinner rate ($23). Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Dental: Employer pays 100% of Safety shoes: $700 per year for CSA- approved metatarsal safety boots. 5 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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