Canadian Labour Reporter

4 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2015 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS September 14, 2015 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS 45¢ per hour for all shifts after midnight, effective Sept. 20, 2016, previously 35¢ per hour 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 after 1 year, 3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 11 years, 5 weeks after 18 years. Overtime: 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. Regular hours of work are 40 per week. Meal allowance: Effective Sept. 20, 2014, $47 (previously $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. Medical benefits: Prairie Teamster's Health and Welfare Plan. Effective September 20, 2015, maximum of $320 ($310) per month; September 20, 2016, $330; and, September 20, 2017, $340. LTD: $50,000 effective Sept. 18, 2014. Previously $20,000. AD&D: $50,000 effective Sept. 18, 2014. Previously $10,000. Pension: Employer contribu- tion to Prairie Teamster's Pen- sion Plan as follows: effective Jan. 1, 2015, $2.90 per hour (previously contributions were made to the Pension Plan of Brink's Canada); Sept. 1, 2016, $3.00; 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/technician/coin roller: $25.03 Driver: $25.58 Editor's notes: Industry advancement fund: 5¢ per hour, effective Sept. 18, 2016. EDUCATION Grande Prairie Public School District Grande Prairie, Alta. (73 employees) and the Grande Prairie School District Employees' Association Renewal agreement: Effect- ive Sept. 1, 2013, to Aug. 1, 2017. Signed on July 4, 2014. Wage adjustments: Effective May 1, 2014: $1,000 lump sum payment Effective Sept. 1, 2014: 1% Effective Sept. 1, 2015: 2% Effective Sept. 1, 2016: 2% Vacations with pay: 15 days to start, 20 days after 5 years, 21 days after 10 years, 22 days after 11 years, 23 days after 12 years, 24 days after 13 years, 25 days after 20 years. Overtime: Time and one- half for all hours worked in excess of 8 per day or 40 per week. Double time for all hours worked on a Saturday or Sunday. Time off instead of compensation may be taken, within 1 year of issuance. Sick leave: 20 days per year, unused portion shall accumu- late up to 90 days. Employees with less than 1 month's ser- vice will be entitled to 2 days per month, up to 20 days for 12-month contract staff; 2 days per month worked for 10-month contract workers. Bereavement leave: 5 days each for leave necessitated by the critical illness or death of a spouse, child, parent, grand- parent, grandchild, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister- in-law, nephew or niece of the employee or the employee's spouse. 1 day each for the critical illness or death of an aunt or uncle of employee or employee's spouse. Up to 2 additional days for travel. Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours' pay. Probationary period: 65 days. Editor's notes: Family illness: Up to 5 days per year to care for family members who are ill, including spouse, child or parent. Personal leave: Employees with less than 5 years of service granted 1 personal day per year. 3 personal days per year for employees with 5 or more years of service. Moving day: 1 day for employee to move. EDUCATION Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ont. (520 professors) and the Wilfred Laurier University Faculty Association Renewal agreement: Effective July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2017. Signed on March 19, 2015. Wage adjustments: Effective July 1, 2014: 1.5% Effective July 1, 2015: 1.5% Effective July 1, 2016: 1.5% Shift premium: Overload stipend: $7,561 per one-term undergraduate course. $7,674 effective Sept. 1, 2016. $7,909 per one-term graduate course. $8,028 effective Sept. 1, 2016. Online learning courses: $4,824 per one-term course. $4,896 effective Sept. 1, 2016. $9,648 per two-term course. $9,792 effective Sept. 1, 2016. Paid holidays: 10 days. Vacations with pay: 1.83 days per month worked to a max- imum of 22 days to start, 25 days after 12 years and 30 days after 24 years. Meal allowance: $10 for breakfast, $15 for lunch and $30 for dinner while travelling. Medical benefits: $1,000 annual maximum for para- medical expenses for psychol- ogists, master's of social work and clinical counsellors. $600 annual maximum for all other paramedical expenses. Vision: $450 every 2 years. Sick leave: Employees on sick leave are entitled to receive 100% of their reference salary to a maximum of 120 calendar days. Sample rates of pay (current, after 1.5% increase): Professor: $113,141 annually Associate: $93,040 Assistant: $75,809 Lecturer: $63,175 Librarian IV: $83,850 Librarian III: $72,363 Librarian II: $63,175 Librarian I: $57,432 Editor's notes: Academic freedom: Employees are entitled to freedom in carrying out research and in publishing the results thereof. No censorship based on moral, religious or political values will be exercised or allowed against any material an employee desires be placed in the library collections at the university. Conflict of interest: Peer assess- ment, review appeals and other decision processes concerning appointment, tenure, promotion, renewal, termina- tion, salary, research grants or instructional development grants must be performed in an objective manner. No employee shall knowingly participate in any decision that directly and preferentially benefits herself or any individual

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