Canadian Labour Reporter

CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER 5 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2014 Banquet barperson: $10.61 Banquet houseperson: $10.61 Banquet head houseperson: $11.45 Hostess: $13.08 Senior maintenance technician: $17.43 Maintenance technician: $16.67 Maintenance person: $13.84 Electrician: $19.73 Health club attendant: $11.54 Editor's notes: Leave of absence: Up to 3 months. Birth and adoption: 1 paid day and 5 unpaid days. Maternity leave: 17 weeks unpaid. Childcare leave: 37 weeks unpaid. Negligence: Unless negligence is established, employees shall not be re- quired to pay for lost, broken or damaged equipment. Health club and pool: Employees can use the Delta Beauséjour Health Club and Pool facilities at half the regular published rates. n CONSTRUCTION Moncton Northeast Construction Association MONCTON, N.B. (600 labourers) and the Labourers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 900. Renewal agreement: Effective April 29, 2013, to June 30, 2015. Signed on April 29, 2013. Wage adjustments: Effective June 30, 2013: 24¢ Effective Dec. 29, 2013: 27¢ Effective June 29, 2014: 64¢ Shift premium: 15¢ per hour for union stewards. 15% for work performed under abnormal conditions such as extreme heat. Paid holidays: 10 days. Vacations with pay: 10% vacation allowance in lieu of paid vacation. Overtime: Double time. Meal allowance: A hot meal or $15 after 10 hours. Pension: The employer contributes $4.90 for each overtime hour worked to the Labourers Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada. Effective June 29, 2014, the employer will contribute $5.50 per overtime hour worked. Bereavement leave: 4 days for the employee's spouse, child, mother or father. 3 days for the employee's brother or sister. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours at regular rate. Discipline: Sunset clause is 1 year. Uniforms/clothing: Protective clothing including rain suits, rub- ber gloves and rubber boots are provided by the employer. Mileage: 45¢ per km. Sample rates of pay, current: General foreman: $25.87 per hour Foreman: $24.87 Group 3: $23.12 Group 2: $21.87 Editor's notes: Clean-up: Employees have 5 minutes before quit- ting time to pick up and store the employer's tools. Mileage: Bing.com/Maps is the program used to establish the distance from the employee's residence to the job site (from the postal code of residence to the postal code of job site). Training: All employees will possess certificates for a 1 day course on the "Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety," Standard First Aid, CPR, WHMIS Generic, Confined Space Level 1, Fall Arrest and Hazard Control (Flagging). Training will be funded through the union. Moonlighting: Employees engaging in work similar to, or connected with, the activities of the employer after regular working hours are subject to suspension and immediate dis- missal. Records book: Each employee must carry a records book to show his/her work experience and labourer classification. n HEALTH CARE Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (health care) PROVINCE-WIDE, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (590 health professional employees) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE). Renewal agreement: Effective April 1, 2012, to March 31, 2016. Signed on Oct. 22, 2013. Wage adjustments: Effective April 1, 2013: $1,400 signing bonus Effective April 1, 2014: 2% Effective April 1, 2015: 3% Shift premium: $2.30 per hour for all hours worked between 4 p.m. on one day and 8 a.m. the following day. $2.55 per hour for all hours worked on Saturday and Sunday. Paid holidays: 9 days. Vacations with pay: 1.66 days for each month of service to start, 4 weeks after 1 year, 5 weeks after 10 years and 6 weeks after 25 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for hours worked in excess of 12 hours in a day or in excess of 150 hours in a 4-week period. Meal allowance: $43.70 per day while travelling inside the prov- ince and $50.20 per day while travelling outside the province. Dental: Optional employee-pay-all basis for basic and major re- storative procedures. Sick leave: 1 day earned for each month of service. AD&D: Equal to 2 times employee's salary. Life insurance: The employer pays 50 per cent of the premium and the employee pays 50 per cent of the premium. Life insur- ance benefit equal to 2 times employee's salary rounded to the next highest $1,000, to a maximum of $1,000,000. Bereavement leave: 3 days for employee's mother, father, brother, sister, child, spouse, common-law spouse, legal guard- ian, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, father-in-law, moth- er-in-law or near relative living in the same household. 1 day for employee's son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law. Additional 30 paid hours when the employee trav- els outside the province to attend the funeral. Seniority – recall rights: 2 years. Call-in pay: Minimum 3 hours at overtime rate. Probationary period: 975 working hours.

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