PM
#40065782
A SASKATCHEWAN employer
violated employee privacy rights
and its own policy when a man-
ager used surveillance footage to
measure employee job perfor-
mance, an arbitrator has ruled.
Pioneer Co-operative Associa-
tion operates various retail loca-
tions across Western Canada.
In 2011, a location with grocery
retail in Saskatchewan installed a
closed-circuit television (CCTV)
security system. The union ad-
vised that "the use of such equip-
ment cannot be used to supervise
or discipline staff as this would
result in the invasion of privacy
First agreement
More than 1,400 employees at
Food Basics locations across
Ontario sign deal that includes
wage hikes
SOCIAL SERVICES
Entrust Adult
Edmonton
(522 social worker employees) and the Retail, Health Care and Service
Employees Union, CLAC Local 301
Renewal agreement: Effective
April 1, 2021 to Nov. 30, 2023.
Signed on May 19, 2021.
Shift premium: $5 per hour for
shifts that need to be temporar-
ily filled, if shift goes unfilled
and employee works major-
ity of shift alone. $5 per hour
for working short. $0.45 per
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Store> pg.8
Ontario arbitrator upholds double payments
for travel time that coincide with client time
AN ONTARIO healthcare employer breached its
collective agreement when it stopped paying for
employee travel time that overlapped with client
visit time, an arbitrator has ruled.
The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
(VON) provides personal support workers (PSWs)
and health support workers (HSWs) for home visits
to clients in Thunder Bay, Chatham-Kent, Sarnia,
and Peel Region in Ontario. The Local Health Inte-
gration Network (LHIN) reimburses VON for the
scheduled time allocated for each client visit.
The collective agreement set out the normal bi-
weekly hours of work and the length of a normal
shift, although there was no guarantee, employees
were paid for scheduled visits. If cancellations re-
duced an employee's scheduled hours, VON was
required to provide an alternate assignment when
reasonably possible.
The collective agreement also permitted em-
ployees to claim mileage for travel between clients
October 18, 2021
see Health-care> pg.8
The Corporation of the City of Kingston
— Ontario pg. 3 IMP Group Aerospace Division,
Comox —British Columbia pg. 4 Elmira District
Community Living — Ontario pg. 6 Sobeys Capital
(Safeway Operations) — Alberta pg. 6
Photo:
JHVEPhoto
(iStock)
Call : 1-888-858-7838
Email: irc@queensu.ca
Website: irc.queensu.ca
Learn more:
Negotiation Skills
Develop Negotiating Styles & Tactics to Master
the Dynamics of Collective Bargaining.
Dec. 6-10, 2021 (10:00 am - 5:00 pm ET)
OCT-NESK-2021.qxp_Layout 1 2021-10-05 11:48 AM Page 1
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
pg. 2
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
CCTV watched workers
but not allowed for discipline
