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Hospital's attendance management
program needs work: Arbitrator
More instruction required
to deal with disability-
related absences
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ONTARIO hospital's attendance management
program set reasonable thresholds to enter employees
into the program, but its failure to consider disabilities
and accommodation in the process set up the poten-
tial for discrimination, an arbitrator has ruled.
The Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmar-
ket, Ont., implemented an attendance support pro-
gram (ASP) on Apr. 14, 2015. The ASP divided the year
into two six-month review periods beginning on April
1 and Oct. 1, respectively.
If, during any review period, an employee met the
threshold of three or more occurrences and five or
July 4, 2016
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Grievance over sick leave ends well for union in Ontario pg. 8
Sysco Central Ontario — Ontario pg. 3 Overland Express — Ontario pg. 4
Reimer Express Lines — B.C. pg. 4 Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto
— Ontario pg. 5 McGill University — Quebec pg. 6 Sobey's West —
Manitoba pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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pg. 2
Tax workers reject
settlement with CRA
Members of PSAC/UTE now
in strike position
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Obvious > pg. 7
City of Windsor deals
with 'equitable' overtime
A UNION'S claim that offering
overtime to one group of employ-
ees and not to another violated
the collective agreement was dis-
missed recently after an arbitrator
concluded the two groups could
be treated differently.
The City of Windsor had one
group of employees in its Em-
ployment & Social Services de-
partment known as employment
services caseworkers (ESCs). An-
other group called the employ-
ment training services casework-
RECYCLING
Suez Canada Waste Services
Edmonton, Alta.
(22 recycling facility labourers) and General
Teamsters, Local Union No. 362
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2016, to Sept. 30, 2019.
Signed on April 1, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 1.3%
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 1.2%
Shift premium: $1.97 for
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
