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No reporting pay for workers
sent home during power outage
Reason for lack of work outside of employer's control
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN Ontario employer does not have to pay unionized
employees for a shift after they arrived at work, were
sent home and then told to come back a few hours lat-
er, an arbitrator has ruled.
Gentek Building Products is a manufacturer of vi-
nyl windows in London, Ont. It has a busy production
season running from April to October each year and
employs about 150 unionized workers at its plant. The
workers work nine- or 10-hour shifts each day, Mon-
day through Friday.
Gentek's collective agreement with Unifor Local 27
had a clause covering reporting pay which stipulated
"an employee called to work or permitted to go to
work without having been properly notified that there
will be no work, or insufficient work shall receive a
April 11, 2016
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Union well within rights to post political notices pg. 8
Coventry Connections Niagara pg. 3 Dalhousie University pg. 4 Conseil de
Bande de Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam pg. 4 Norampac-Viau pg. 5 Saputo
Dairy Products pg. 6 Toronto Terminals Railway Company pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Mark
Blinch
(Reuters)
pg. 2
Steelworkers ratify con-
tract at custody facility
The deal includes improve-
ments to benefits,
wage increases
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see No > pg. 7
Employer fails to appear
at arbitration hearing
AN arbitration hearing regard-
ing an employer's apparent lack of
contributions went ahead, despite
a lack of representation from the
employer.
The grievance concerned a col-
lective agreement between the
United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners of America Lo-
cal 1325 and the Manitoba-based
Drytec Interiors which required
the company to make contribu-
tions to the union's Health and
Wellness Plan, its Pension Trust
SECURITY
Securitas Transport
Aviation Security
Multiprovince
(790 screening officers) and the United Steelworkers
(USW) Locals 9342 & 5319
Renewal agreement: Effec-
tive April 1, 2015, to March 31,
2018. Signed on May 1, 2015.
Wage adjustments:
Unifor Local 27 filed a grievance against Gentek Building Products after employees
were sent home without reporting pay due to a power outage.
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
