Canadian Labour Reporter

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS slip-resistant work footwear. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will furnish and maintain, without charge, uniforms that employer requires employee to wear. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Housekeeping worker Probation rate: $16.78 Year 1: $17.11 Year 2: $17.52 Year 3: $17.92 Year 4: $18.29 Year 5: $18.64 Year 6: $20.25 Editor's notes: Doctor's notes: Employer will reimburse doctor's notes, maximum $100 per year for full-time employees; $50 per year for part-time employees. Pressing necessity: 3 days, without loss of pay in each year, if employee unable to report to work due to unanticipated circumstances of pressing necessity which require employee's personal attention (may include illness in employee's immediate family). Prescription safety glasses: $150 per year. EDUCATION e Board of Governors of Lakehead University under Bay/Orillia, Ont. (570 graduate/research assistants) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3905 Renewal agreement: Effective Sept. 1, 2020 to Aug. 31, 2023. Ratified in April 2021. Signed on July 5, 2021. Wage adjustments: Effective Sept. 1, 2020: 1% Effective Sept. 1, 2021: 1% Effective Sept. 1, 2022: 1% Paid holidays: 11 days. Medical benefits: Employer pays for 95% of monthly pre- miums, employee pays 5% of premiums for group medical benefits plan and hospital benefit plan, single coverage. Employ- ee pays 100% of premiums for optional spouse and dependant coverage with corresponding offset equal to amount of em- ployer-paid premium for single coverage. Dental: Employer pays 80% of monthly single premium rate, employee pays 20% of premiums for graduate dental plan. Vision: Employer pays 95% of monthly premiums, employ- ee pays 5% of premiums for coverage of 80% of cost of eye examinations up to $75 every 24 months. Paramedical: Reimbursement of treatment of 80% per visit up to $350 per year per practition- er (licensed speech therapist, registered massage therapist (with physician prescription), clinical psychologist, chiro- practor, osteopath, chiropodist/ podiatrist, physiotherapist, nat- uropath). Sick leave: Employees are eli- gible for sick leave without pay if they are unable to perform assigned duties due to personal illness or injury. Bereavement leave: 3 paid days for death of spouse, child, parent, sibling, stepsibling, parent-in- law, sibling-in-law, grandparent, grandchild. Up to 2 additional paid days may be given in excep- tional cases or where lengthy trip is required to attend funeral. Seniority – recall rights: 120 calendar days. Discipline: Sunset clause is 12 months for any warning or repri- mand. Sample rates of pay (current fall/winter term wages, after increase): Graduate assistant/research assistant 1: $10,402.66 rising 1 step to $10,506.89 Graduate assistant/research assistant 2: $38.52/hour rising 1 step to $38.91/hour Graduate assistant/research assistant 3: $11,344.35 rising 1 step to $11,457.79 Undergraduate assistant 1: $19.12/hour rising 1 step to $19.31/hour Undergraduate assistant 2: $16.06/hour rising in 2 step to $16.22/hour Learning assistant tutor (en- rolled in doctoral/graduate degree/diploma program): $25.47/hour rising 1 step to $25.72/hour Editor's notes: Employee financial assistance fund: $10,000 allocated to fund to assist employees with academic and living expenses (including child-care expenses). Academic freedom: All employees who are primarily responsible for content or presentation of course will be accorded academic freedom in design or presentation of that course. All other employees will be accorded academic freedom subject to reasonable instructions of their employment supervisors. Appointments: Gradu- ate student registered in graduate degree program or doctoral program may be offered full-time or half-time appointment as graduate assistant/research assistant 1 or GA/RA 3. Full-time assistantship will constitute 270 hours in which graduate works 2 of 3 terms within academic year and average not more than 10 hours of work per week (maximum of 20 hours per week during peak demand times). Half-time assistantship will constitute 135 hours. ENTERTAINMENT Alberta Ballet Company Calgary (30 performance staff ) and the International Alliance of eatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories, and Canada (IATSE), Local 212 Renewal agreement: Effective July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2024. Ratified on Aug. 16, 2021. Signed on Aug. 30, 2021. Shift premium: Time and one-half for all hours worked on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24 beginning at 6 p.m.) and New Year's Eve (Dec. 31 beginning at 6 p.m.). Time and one-half if stage technician employee is unbale to take requisite meal break from time at which break should have began until time break actually begins or shift ends, whichever is earlier. Time and one-half for time worked when there isn't 10-hour rest period between wrap-up on 1 day and beginning of shift on next day. Paid holidays: 11 days, half- days on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve (after 6 p.m.). Employee fund: $10,000 allocated to fund to assist employees with academic and living expenses. September 27, 2021 4 Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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