Canadian Labour Reporter

6 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2015 ColleCtive Agreements February 23, 2015 Seniority – recall rights: 1 year. Probationary period: 1,000 hours worked in 1 year. Uniforms/clothing: Employ- ees in the maintenance and quality assurance department will be given 15 credits to procure uniforms. All other employees will be given 11 credits. Pants require 2 credits, shirts and lab coats require 1 credit, T-shirts require one- half credit. Employees will be issued 1 winter jacket every 3 years. tool allowance: $500 for the replacement of tools. Sample rates of pay (current, after 1.5% increase): Seasonal: $15.35 per hour Probationary: $18.36 General soft drink worker: $24.56 Forklift operator: $26.48 Driver: $22.30 Machine operator: $26.48 Q.C. technician: $27.64 Syrup/concentrate maker: $27.64 General mechanic: $30.33 Licensed mechanic/licensed electrician: $36.11 Electromechanic: $38.44 PCL programmer and auto- mation technician: $40.22 editor's notes: Split shifts: There will be no split shifts for employees. SECURITY Brink's Canada Provincewide, alberta (220 armoured car services employees) and the Teamsters union Renewal agreement: Effec- tive Sept. 20, 2014, to Sept. 19, 2018. Signed in September 2014. wage adjustments: Effective Sept. 20, 2014: 2.4% Effective Sept. 20, 2015: 2% Effective Sept. 20, 2016: 1.6% Effective Sept. 20, 2017: 3.6% Shift premium: Effective Sept. 20, 2016, 45¢ per hour for all shifts after midnight, previous- ly 35¢ for shifts between 6:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. Effective Sept. 20, 2017, 55¢ per hour. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 2 weeks earned after 1 year, 3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 11 years, and 5 weeks after 18 years. overtime: Effective upon ratification, employees who feel they have been working an excessive amount of overtime will have the option to submit a written request to review such hours worked. meal allowance: Effective Sept. 20, 2014: $47 (up from $46) when required to stay overnight at a location outside the branch. Effective Sept. 20, 2015: $48. Effective Sept. 20, 2016: $49. Effective Sept. 20, 2017: $50. aD&D: Effective upon ratification: $50,000, up from $10,000. life insurance: Effective upon ratification: $50,000, up from $20,000. Pension: Prairie Teamster's Pension Plan. Effective Jan. 1, 2015, employer to contribute $2.90 per hour (previously contributions were made to the Pension Plan of Brink's Canada). Effective Sept. 1, 2016: $3. Effective Sept. 1, 2017: $3.10. Safety shoes: $125 every 2 years. Previously $100. Sample rates of pay, current: Money room clerk: $19.29 per hour Maintenance: $20.38 Cash logistics processor: $20.62 Guard: $25.03 Driver: $25.58 editor's notes: Industry advancement fund: 5¢ per hour. LABOUR RELATIONS okanagan labour Relations Council Revelstoke, Salmon arm, Penticton and oliver, B.C. (565 office and service and maintenance employees) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Renewal agreement: Effec- tive July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2019. Signed in July of 2014. wage adjustments: Effective July 1, 2015: 1% Effective July 1, 2016: 0.5% Effective May 1, 2017: 1% Effective July 1, 2017: 0.5% Effective May 1, 2018: 1% Effective July 1, 2018: 0.5% Effective May 1, 2019: 1% Paid holidays: 12 days. Vacations with pay: 3 weeks earned after 1 year, 4 weeks earned after 5 years, 5 weeks earned after 10 years, 6 weeks earned after 14 years. One ad- ditional day earned for each year of service after 19 years. For example: 31 days of vaca- tion after 20 years, 32 days after 21, and so on, with no maximum entitlement cap. Sample rates of pay, current: Accounts payable clerk: $21.16 per hour Career information adviser: $22.99 Administrative assistant: $23.57 Food services cook: $24.18 Elementary counselling sup- port worker: $26.69 editor's notes: Standardization of benefits: Committee to be established to look at ways to move to an optional stan- dardized provincial extended health benefits plan that would include the majority of support staff members. Job eval- uation: Committee to be established and responsible in creating a provincial job evaluation plan which may include a regional or local approach. Employee support grant: The employer will reimburse each employee for all scheduled hours that the employee would have worked and for which the employee has not otherwise been paid after June 30, 2014, as a result of legal strike activity by the British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF) or lockout by British Co- lumbia Public School Employers Association (BCPSEA). The compensation is conditional to the ratification of the agreement by both the School Board and the union local no later than Nov. 30, 2014.

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