Canadian Labour Reporter

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS worked on weekends. No shift premium for hours for which employee receives overtime. Paid holidays: 11 days plus addition 32 floater hours for full-time employees; 9 days for part-time employees. Vacations with pay: 2 weeks after 1 year, 3 weeks after 2 years, 4 weeks after 8 years, 5 weeks after 15 years, 7 weeks after 20 years. Additional 8 hours for each full year of ser- vice completed after 23 years; additional 40 hours after 30 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for authorized hours worked in excess of standards daily or bi- weekly hours and for all hours worked on paid holiday. Can be banked as lieu time up to 16 hours. Full-time staff selected to accompany clients on vaca- tion up to 5 overnights receive between 5 and 21 hours time off or pay as employee chooses. Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of extended health care plan with $50 deductible family, $25 single. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums for Great West Life No. 9 dental plan or compara- ble coverage. Up to $3,000 per dependent child for orthodon- tic coverage. Vision: Employer pays 100% of benefits for coverage of $200 every 24 months and all ex- penses for eye exams every 24 months. Paramedical: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of up to $500 per year for chi- ropractic and physiotherapy. $500 per calendar year for or- thotics. Sick leave: For full-time em- ployees, 100% of salary for first 4 ill periods up to 5 working days per illness. After 5 work- ing days, 66% of salary for balance of disability up to 15 weeks. For fifth and subsequent ill period will have no benefit for first day of illness and 66% for balance of disability period up to 15 weeks. Employee who is injured or traumatized during working hours and is required to leave for treatment or is sent home will receive payment for remainder of shift without deduction from sick leave. STD: Employer pays 100% of coverage up to 15 weeks or 75 working days. LTD: Employer pays 100% of coverage based on length of continuous service. Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of coverage of twice em- ployee's annual income. Pension: All full-time employ- ees are required as condition of employment to enroll in Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). Contributions by employee and employer determined by current require- ments of plan. Bereavement leave: 4 paid days for death of parent, spouse, child, sibling. 3 paid days for death of parent-in-law, sibling-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, child-in-law. 1 paid day to attend funeral of niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, spouse's grandparent. Seniority – recall rights: 18 months. Call-in pay: Time and one-half for minimum of 3 hours for call-ins. Probationary period: Full- time employees: 3 months in service departments, 7 months in residential life and developmental services de- partment. May be extended upon mutual agreement. Part- time employees: 520 hours in service departments, 1,120 hours in residential life and development services depart- ment. Safety shoes: $200 per year for developmental centre staff. $500 per year to maintenance department staff towards pur- chase of safety shoes, safety boots, winter clothing. Uniforms/clothing: $130 per year to recreation staff for swimwear. Mileage: $0.44 per kilometre or corporate rate, whichever is higher, when employee uses personal automobile for em- ployer's business. Sample start/maximum rates of pay (current): Developmental support worker 3: $20.96/$22.66 General maintenance 3: $20.90/$22.33 Behaviour counsellor: $21.30/$23.02 Head cook: $20.41/21.27 Developmental support worker 2: $21.06/$22.58 General maintenance 2: $19.60/$20.90 Developmental support worker I: $21.05/$22.50 Laundry housekeeping: $18.42/$19.09 Aide 2: $20.27/$21.02 Aide 2: $18.22/$18.93 Part-time/relief: $21.05/$22.50 Temporary support worker 2: $20.96/$22.66 Temporary support worker 1: $21.06/$22.58 Temporary assistant to coun- sellor: $21.05/$22.50 Support services part-time: $18.42/$19.09 Sleep nights: $15.20 Part-time behaviour counsel- lor: $21.30/$23.02 Editor's notes: Leave of absence: Any employee may be granted leave of absence without loss of seniority and without pay for period of time not to exceed 1 month for personal reasons, provided that such leave may be arranged without undue inconvenience to normal operations of employer. Medical certificate: Mandatory for any employee who is absent 3 or more consecutive work days. Employer will reimburse, maximum $15 per year (April to March) for direct costs associated with getting required certificate. Trades certificates: Employer will pay cost of all licensing fees and trade certificates for all em- ployees, maximum $100 per year, if required by employer. PUBLIC HOUSING Tasiurqtit Housing Association Whale Cove, Nunavut (26 maintenance, administrative employees) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) (as represented by its component) Nunavut Employees Union (NEU) Renewal agreement: Effec- tive April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2023. Ratified on Feb. 27, 2020. Signed on June 22, 2020. Shift premium: $300 per year for each full-time permanent maintenance employee they supervise, to be paid March 31 each year, for maintenance supervisor. Paid holidays: 12 days. At re- quest of employee, and where operational requirements of employer permit, employee will not be required to work both Christmas and New Year's Day. Employees may carry over 3 weeks' vacation credits from 1 fiscal year to next (additional vacation leave credits will be liquidated in cash in March). Vacations with pay: 1 1/4 days per month to start, 1 2/3 days per month after 2 years, 2 1/12 days per month after 7 years, 2 1/3 days per month after 12 years, 2 1/2 days per month after 17 years, 2 2/3 days per Trades certificates: Employer will pay cost of all licensing fees and trade certificates for all employees, maximum $100 per year. December 13, 2021 4 Canadian HR Reporter, a Key Media Canada (HR) Ltd. business 2021

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