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May 24, 2021

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premiums. Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums. LTD: Employer pays 100% of premiums. AD&D: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Bereavement leave: Maximum 10 days for death of spouse, child, stepchild, mother, step- mother, father, stepfather, grandchild, stepgrandchild. 5 days for death of mother-in- law, father-in-law, daughter-in- law, son-in-law, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, spouse's grandmother, spouse's grandfather, brother-in-law, sister-in-law. 1 day for death of aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew. Additional 2 days time will be allowed for travel- ling more than 300 kilometres 1-way to attend funeral or memorial service. Seniority – recall rights: Period equivalent to employee's number of completed months of service with employer, maximum 12 months, which- ever is lesser. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours' pay at applicable overtime rate or pay for actual hours worked at applicable overtime rate, whichever is greater. All call- ins beginning after 10 p.m. and before 5:30 a.m. will be paid minimum of 2.5 hours' pay at applicable overtime rate or for actual hours worked at appli- cable overtime rate, whichever is greater. Employee called in to work results in employee working between midnight and 5:30 a.m. will not be required to work scheduled day shift without 9 continuous hours off job. Probationary period: 120 working days for technician trainee distribution operations, technician distribution opera- tions, technician construc- tion and maintenance, lead construction and maintenance, technician special projects crew, lead special projects crew; 80 working days for all other new employees. Casual employee will become casual in-scope employee when employee has worked more than 1,040 hours in any consecutive 12-month period as plant employee or worked more than 975 hours in any consecutive 12-month period as office employee. Severance: 2 weeks of pay plus 2 weeks of severance pay for each year of service, not including recall period, maximum 56 weeks with minimum of 1 year of actual time worked. Safety shoes: Maximum $300 per year for approved footwear, Bama socks, insoles. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will pay 100% of purchase and costs for: parkas, coveralls (winter and summer); smocks including all portions of uniforms which require dry- cleaning. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Technician distribution opera- tions Step 1: $38.21 Step 2: $39.31 Step 3: $40.45 Technician trainee distribution operations Step 1: $33.69 Step 2: $35.07 Step 3: $36.46 Lead construction and main- tenance Step 1: $38.21 Step 2: $39.31 Step 3: $40.45 Technician construction and maintenance Step 1: $36.32 Step 2: $47.21 Step 3: $48.58 Regional technician Step 1: $45.86 Step 2: $47.21 Step 3: $48.58 Technician corrosion control Step 1: $42.14 Step 2: $43.41 Step 3: $44.66 Dispatcher planner Step 1: $34.90 Step 2: $35.92 Step 3: $36.94 Fleet technician Step 1: $38.04 Step 2: $39.16 Step 3: $40.30 Technician GIS Step 1: $41.51 Step 2: $42.75 Step 3: $44.01 Technician GIS data Step 1: $41.51 Step 2: $42.75 Step 3: $44.01 Step 1: $41.51 Step 2: $42.75 Step 3: $44.01 Operator GIS Step 1: $37.05 Step 2: $38.50 Step 3: $39.88 Facilities caretaker Step 1: $25.12 Step 2: $25.97 Step 3: $26.86 Lead special projects crew Step 1: $41.69 Step 2: $42.93 Step 3: $44.17 Technician special projects crew Step 1: $38.21 Step 2: $39.31 Step 3: $40.45 Inspector regional construc- tion Step 1: $37.19 Step 2: $38.27 Step 3: $39.35 Buyer inventory control Step 1: $34.90 Step 2: $35.92 Step 3: $36.94 Warehouseperson Step 1: $31.50 Step 2: $32.25 Step 3: $33.04 Accountant financial/adminis- trator technical services Step 1: $35.75 Step 2: $36.84 Step 3: $37.88 Accounting assistant accounts payable/accounting assistant financial control/accounting assistant fixed assets/admin- istrative assistant distribution operations/clerk accounts receivable/coordinator corpo- rate services/coordinator EOHS Step 1: $32 Step 2: $33.08 Step 3: $34.26 Receptionist Step 1: $28.93 Step 2: $29.71 Step 3: $30.95 Editor's notes: Personal paid days: Employees will be entitled to 6 personal paid days off per calendar year. There will be no carry-over of unused personal paid days from 1 year to next; there will be no monetary payment for any unused personal paid days. Visitations: For each dependent child who accompanies employee during visitation, employee will be reimbursed for meals purchased: $7 for breakfast; $10 for lunch; $13 for dinner. Standby allowance: Employees who provide standby coverage will receive: $39.62 for each normal day; $102.24 for each scheduled day of rest, recognized holiday, corporate day off. Effective Jan. 1, 202: $40.41 for each normal day; $104.29 for each scheduled day of rest, recognized holiday, corporate day off. If duty is extended beyond 7 consecutive days, premium will be paid: $10.14 each day for days 8 to 14; for days 15 and beyond: $16.46 per day. Effective Jan. 1, 2022: $10.34 each day for days 8 to 14 inclusive; for days 15 and beyond: $16.79 per day. Board and lodging: Employees will be reimbursed for meals while lodging away from home: $12.76 for breakfast; $15.58 for lunch; $23 for dinner; $8 for incidental overnight stay. Prescription safety glasses: Reimbursable at 100%, maximum $350 per employee every 24 consecutive months. Paid education leave: Employer will contribute $5,000 per year over term of agreement to Unifor paid education leave program. Paid education leave: Employer will contribute $5,000 per year to Unifor paid education leave program. May 24, 2021 6 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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