Canadian Labour Reporter

steps to $33.61 Drivers: $31.36 rising 4 steps to $33.61 Sample rates of per kilometre pay (current, after increase): Single driver: $0.4735 rising 4 steps to $0.4985 LCV driver: $0.5473 rising 4 steps to $0.5723 Effective date of ratification, employee will receive 1-time lump-sum payment of $500 MINERALS PRODUCTION Compass Minerals Canada Goderich, Ont. (403 mining employees) and Unifor, Local 16-O Renewal agreement: Effective April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2026. Ratified in March 2021. Wage adjustments: Effective April 1, 2021: 3.5% Effective April 1 ,2022: 3.1% Effective April 1, 2023: 3.1% Effective April 1, 2024: 3.6% Effective April 1, 2025: 4.1% Shift premium: $0.86 per hour for work performed on 3 shift (starting between 12:01 p.m. and 8 p.m.). $1.23 per hour for work performed on 1 shift (starting between 8:01 p.m. and 4 a.m.) (increasing in 4 steps to $0.92 per hour/$1.31 per hour) (previously $0.84 per hour/$1.21 per hour). $0.69 per hour for work performed on regular scheduled 12-hour work shifts on 5-crew shift schedule (increasing in 4 steps to $0.79 per hour). $0.84 per hour for all time worked underground (increasing in 4 steps to $0.99 per hour). Employees who work Saturday as part of regular scheduled workweek receive $7.50 per hour for all hours worked on Saturday shifts. Em- ployees who work Sunday as part of regular scheduled work week receive double time for all hours worked on Sunday shifts. $0.50 per hour for working in shaft (rising in 4 steps to $0.59 per hour). $1 per hour for em- ployees in maintenance depart- ment holding interprovincial certificate. $0.40 per hour for employees operating ship loader or remote rail car mover. $0.40 per hour for employee assigned to remote ticketing shack. Paid holidays: 12 days including 2 floating holidays. Any employ- ee who works on Christmas Day or New Year's Day receives addi- tional general floating holiday. Vacations with pay: 2 weeks af- ter 1 year, 3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks after 17 years, 6 weeks after 25 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all hours worked in excess of regularly assigned daily hours. Double time for all overtime hours in excess of 8 on any 1 day of rest, all overtime hours on second and subsequent days of rest; all overtime hours on Sun- days. Double time for all hours worked on statutory holiday. Medical benefits: Employer pays full cost of prescription drugs, 80% of general and medi- cal expenses, full semi-private hospital coverage. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage for 90% of basic treatment, employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums for cover- age for 80% of major restorative, and 50% of orthodontics. Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage for $400 every 24 months for prescrip- tion glasses or contact lenses and $200 every 24 months towards eye examination and digital retinal photos. Paramedical: Employer will pay up to $2,000 for hearing aids every 24 months; 50% of cost of prosthetic appliances; 80% of cost of durable medical equipment up to $2,500; up to $1,000 for smoking cessation assistance; up to $1,500 per year for massage, chiropractic, naturopathy, podiatrist visits; 70% for osteopath visits, 80% of speech therapy up to $2,000, full cost of PSA tests. Weekly indemnity: 66 2/3% of employee's straight-time rate for 40 hours per week, during pe- riods of disability from first day of absence due to non-occupa- tional accident, hospitalization, outpatient hospital care or third day of absence due to illness, up to 32 weeks. For employees until they reach 70 years of age. LTD: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of 50% of regular pay rate, beginning after expiry of weekly indemnity period of 32 weeks, for addi- tional period of up to 24 months when employee is unable to per- form any and every duty of any occupation in mine. AD&D: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage for 3 times employee's straight-time rate multiplied by 2,080 and ad- justed to nearest $100. Reduced to 1.5 times employee's rate when employee reaches 65 years old and $20,000 at 70 years old. Optional coverage available in increments of $5,000 fully paid by employees. Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage for 3 times employee's straight- time rate multiplied by 2,080 and adjusted to nearest $100. Reduced to 1.5 times employee's rate when employee reaches 65 years old and $20,000 at 70 years old. Pension: Company retirement plan with registered pension plan and deferred profit sharing plan. Bereavement leave: 3 paid days for death of family member. Up to 4 shifts in event of winter death and spring burial, funeral too distant too attend, or when no wake or funeral is held. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months for employees with less than 1 year of service, 24 months after 1 year of service, 36 months after 10 years of service, 48 months after 20 years of service. Probationary period: 720 hours worked. Discipline: Sunset clause is 12 months for written discipline or counselling notices, 24 months for suspensions. Severance: Permanently laid off employees with 5 or more years of service receive 2 week's pay for each year of service plus pro- rated amount for partial years of service. Safety shoes: $300 maximum reimbursement for cost of re- placing worn or damaged boots meeting specified level of pro- tection (previously $200). Uniforms/clothing: Company pays 50% of cost of 1 pair of safe- ty prescription glasses per year. Company pays for and provides weekly rental and cleaning of personal uniform services for 5 coveralls, 5 sets of pants and shirts for all employees; person- al lined coveralls and insulated coats for posted employees working out of doors during winter months. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 13.9% in- crease): Miner 1 CM operator: $46 rising 4 steps to $52.34 Weekend rate 5 crew: $51.17 rising 4 steps to $58.56 Monday-Saturday blended rate for 10.5-hour crew: $51.48 ris- ing 4 steps to $58.57 Miner 2 CM utilityman/general util- ity/R-C equipment operator/ CHCM ventilation: $44.71 ris- ing 4 steps to $51.05 Miner 3 Maintenance utilityman/ser- vices utilityman/mech. scaler operator/processing utilityman/ back checker/bench blaster/ bench drill pattern marker/dia- mond drill operator/face loader operator/face scaler/roof bolter operator/small drill operator/ truck/processing operator/ processing helper/utility loader operator: $44.14 rising 4 steps to $50.48 Miner 4 Material handling crew/haulage serviceman/equipment washer/ clean up crew/grader & WW operator/ventilation crew/pack- er/tub/WW operator/sanitation operators/U/G stores material handler/water truck operator/ unposted labourer: $43.38 rising 4 steps to $49.72 Miner 5 Probationary labourer: $41.91 rising 4 steps to $48.25 Underground and surface main- tenance departments journeyman mobile mechanic/ journeyman millwright/journey- man electrician/journeyman carpenter/journeyman hoist mechanic/PDM technician/ HVAC/plumbing technician: $46 rising 4 steps to $52.34 7 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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