Canadian Labour Reporter

1 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2014 FEBRUARY 18, 2014 LABOUR BRIEFS Salespeople locked out by Trader Corpora- tion / Carleton University accused of unfair labour practices / Labatt workers ratify new collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS • Saskatchewan Transportation Company, Regina. Transit passes for staff. . . . . . . 3 • City of Grande Prairie, Grand Prairie, Alta. Fitness initiative created to keep employees healthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 • City of Winnipeg, Winnipeg. $450 bonus in employee's 10th year of service . . . . 4 • The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Province-wide. 21 paid hours for family/home emergencies . . . . . . . 4 • Allsco Windows and Doors, Moncton, N.B. Safety glasses mandatory . . . . . . . 5 • Lacaille International, Papineau, Que. Union dues are $25 per month . . . . . . 6 ARBITRATION AWARDS • Operator falls off the wagon and onto the driver's seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 • B.C. schools learn language lesson . . . . 8 ON LABOUR-REPORTER.COM The union representing transit workers in London agrees to postpone a strike and home support workers in Halifax continue the bargaining battle. Visit www.labour- reporter.com for daily news stories. Follow us on Twitter @labourreporter. And don't forget — all collective agreement summaries on labour-reporter.com now include links to the full agreements. UPCOMING ISSUES Treasury Board minister Tony Clement said proposed changes to sick leave provisions for public servants will do more to address long term health issues such as mental illness. Critics of the proposed plan say it could lead to the contracting out of sick leave policy to a third party. See more in next week's issue of CLR. | by SAbRINA NANJI | IF ThE GOVERNMENT'S intentions for a provincial pension plan go ahead, workers in Ontario will have another means to bolster their nest eggs — but some employers say they will not be able to keep their heads above water. At the end of January, Ontario Pre- mier Kathleen Wynne announced the government would blaze the trail and introduce details of its own pension plan this spring. The move came about after the feder- al government balked at an attempt to expand the Can- ada Pension Plan (CPP). While details of what an Ontario pension plan might look like have yet to be released (think the size of the contributions and what benefits will be paid out), the government has struck a panel of pension experts, headed by former prime min- ister Paul Martin, to finalize the details. According to Wynne, Ontarians are not saving as much as they should to be able to retire comfortably. The latest longevity reports have indicated Canadians are living longer, sounding a need to either save more or retire later. Last summer, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries commissioned its first-ever study looking at mortal- ity tables for Canadian workers. The result? Canadians are living longer: the average 60-year-old man is now expected to live for an additional 27.3 years, up 2.9 years, while a 60-year-old woman is expected to live an extra 2.7 years, up to 29.4 additional years. "We are taking action now to ad- dress this urgent need," Wynne said. "This will be a quick process. Protecting people in their retirement is a key part of our economic plan to in- vest in people and to build the right infrastructure and create a business environ- ment that is innovative and is dynamic." What is known for now is that a pension plan would be governed by an arm's-length agency, similar to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), said Keith Am- bachtsheer, director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Man- agement and a member of the govern- ment's advisory panel. "We have to stop using words like defined benefit and defined contribu- tion, because they really don't describe the future," Ambachtsheer explained. "(It's) a retirement savings plan where somewhere down the road you can buy deferred annuities." Ontario blazes provincial pension plan trail but employers warn new plan could create financial burden PM #40065782 Continued on page 7 "The only thing that could be worse for small business than a CPP expansion would be the creation of a provincial version of it." IN THIS ISSUE

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