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January 12, 2015
Agreement reached with aid
from mediation service
Corporation offering ferry
services reaches deal without
work stoppages
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
No recourse for discredited B.C. cop pg. 6
Gate Gourmet Canada Inc — Que. pg. 3 FDS Prime Energy Services
— Alta. pg. 3 Rocky Mountain School District — B.C. pg. 4 Fort
Simpson Housing Authority — N.W.T. pg. 4 O'Leary Farmers Co-Op
Association — P.E.I. pg. 5 City of Kelowna — B.C. pg. 5
Welder suspended after
abandoning work station
Louis smith, a welder for
Kubota Materials Canada, re-
ceived a one-day suspension after
leaving his work station without
authorization.
The Orillia, Ont.-based com-
pany designated specific times for
workplace breaks. The morning
break time was, and continues to
be, 9:00 a.m. The break is 10 min-
utes long and is announced by a
facility-wide siren.
On April 24, 2013, Smith was
working the day shift. At 8:44 a.m.,
ColleCtive
Agreements
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Agreements
ArbitrAtion
AwArds
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Belanger
(Reuters)
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see Arbitration > pg. 6
pg. 2
see screening > pg. 7
u.s. supreme Court rules on security checks
Employers do not have to pay for time spent in screenings
By Liz Foster
in deCember , the Supreme Court of the
United States ruled companies do not have
to pay employees for time spent undergoing
security checks at the end of a shift.
The unanimous ruling came in a case in-
volving one of Amazon.com's warehousing
contractors. In a 9-0 vote, the court found
employees of Nevada-based Integrity Staff-
ing Solutions cannot claim compensation
for time spent in security screenings.
Former employees sued Integrity Staffing
in 2010 for back wages and overtime pay as
compensation for time spent waiting to un-
dergo and undergoing security checks, with
Amazon never directly involved in the case.
The workers also alleged the company
could have reduced time spent in security
checks by adding screeners or staggering
shift terminations.
Aimed at preventing theft, the security
Canadian employers must consider reasonable grounds before attempting to implement
security screenings, according to Lewis Gottheil, director of Unifor's legal department.
GOVERNMENT
town of Carbonear
Carbonear, n.L.
(24 employees) and the Transport and Allied Workers Union
Local 855 affiliated with the Teamsters Union
renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 31, 2016.
Signed on June 12, 2014.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2015: 65¢
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: 65¢
Calculated by CLR.
shift premium: $10 per day for
