Canadian Labour Reporter

3 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2016 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS < from pg. 1 Shift premium: $0.50 per hour for all hours between 4 p.m. and midnight. $0.70 per hour for all hours between midnight and 8 a.m. Paid holidays: 12 days. Vacations with pay: 3 weeks to start, 4 weeks after 2 years, 5 weeks after 7 years, 6 weeks af- ter 15 years, 6 weeks and 2 days after 18 years, 7 weeks and 1 day after 22 years. One-half day may be added for travel time. Overtime: Time and one-half for first 4 hours in excess of regular hours. Double time for all subsequent hours or all hours on second or subsequent day of rest or paid holiday. Can be banked as lieu time up to 10 days per year. Minimum 1 hour of overtime must be paid. Meal allowance: Provided where employee must work 2 or more hours of overtime im- mediately following regularly scheduled hours. Medical benefits: Company- funded extended health care and dental insurance plans. Sick leave: 1 ¼ days for each calendar month receiving at least 10 days' pay. Life insurance: Company- funded group benefit plan with life insurance, AD&D, LTD. Pension: Company-funded Northern Employee Benefits Services Pension Plan. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death of immediate family member (father, mother, broth- er, sister, spouse, common-law spouse, child, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandchildren, grandparents, any relative permanently residing in the employee's household, includ- ing stepmother, stepfather, stepchild, foster child). Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours at straight time rate or appro- priate overtime rate. Minimum 4 hours at appropriate overtime rate if on day of rest or paid holiday. Severance: First layoff: 2 weeks' pay for each of first and second year of employment and 1 week for each successive complete year of employment to a maxi- mum 28 weeks' pay. Second layoff: 2 weeks for first year and 1 week for each successive year of employment to a maximum of 27 weeks. Safety shoes: $200 per year for certain recreation, maintenance and airport employees. Uniforms/clothing: Company provides hard hats, aprons, welding gloves, dust protection, eye protection, ear protection, coveralls, rubber boots and gloves where required. Tool allowance: Company sup- plies all shop tools and special tools required. Mileage: $0.485 per kilometre when using employee's car for employer's business. Sample rates of pay (current, after 17% increase): Finance officer: $67,958.60 ris- ing in 6 steps to $80,576.99 Assistant finance officer: $58.688.98 rising in 6 steps to $68,864.03 Information officer, alcohol & drug co-ordinator: $59,856.76 rising in 6 steps to $70,240.31 Land administrator: $72,026.53 rising in 6 steps to $85,545.65 Economic development officer: $76,151.83 rising in 6 steps to $90,445.18 Recreation co-ordinator: $67,958.60 rising in 6 steps to $80,576.99 Recreation maintainer: $54,164.26 rising in 6 steps to $63,623.65 Arena labourer: $51,361.35 ris- ing in 6 steps to $60,004.36 Airport maintainer driver op- erator, heavy equipment opera- tor: $75,910.57 rising in 3 steps to $81,344.20 Airport mechanic: $80,678.90 rising in 3 steps to $86,615.05 Alcohol & drug worker, by-law officer: $53,256.50 rising in 6 steps to $63,218.39 Municipal mechanic: $80,678.90 rising in 3 steps to $86,615.05 Assistant mechanic: $61,598.48 rising in 6 steps to $72,478.66 Electrician: $75,747.74 rising in 6 steps to $89,962.60 Building maintainer: $68,684.83 rising in 3 steps to $72,998.71 Driver, water & sewage/gar- bage: $52,401.45 rising in 6 steps to $61,395.85 Helper – garbage, custodial worker: $47,961.07 rising in 6 steps to $55,734.96 Helper – garage: $50,853 rising in 6 steps to $59,412.83 Editor's notes: Life-change leave: Up to 5 days paid leave for getting married or divorced. Northern allowance: $22,500 paid in biweekly instalments; full-time employees with at least 3 years' service can receive up to $8,500 in a lump sum. Monthly allowance of $328 for each full-time employee who owns a home or pays own fuel bill. Hunting, fishing, harvesting leave: Time off without pay may be granted on very short notice to an employee for traditional hunting, fishing or harvesting. Vehicle plug-in: $7 per day when employee must plug in company vehicle at home overnight while on call from November to April. Travel accommodation: $50 per night outside of Nunavut, $75 per night inside Nunavut. INDUSTRY Aecon Western Industrial Provincewide, Aberta (50 fireproofing workers) and the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association OPCMIA , Local 222 Renewal agreement: Effective May 1, 2016, April 30, 2020. Signed on April 15, 2016. Wage adjustments: Effective November 2017, 2018, 2019: If oil price less than $65: $0 If oil price is between $65 and $85: one-half of CPI change multiplied by the journey- person gross wage rate If oil price is between $85 and $105: one-half of CPI change and 0.5%, multiplied by the journeyperson gross wage rate If oil price is greater than $105: one-half of CPI change and 1%, multiplied by the journey- person gross wage rate Effective May 2017, 2018, 2019: If oil price less than $65: $0 If oil price is between $65 and $85: one-half of CPI change multiplied by group 4 average wage If oil price is between $85 and $105: one-half of CPI change and 0.5%, multiplied by by group 4 average wage If oil price is greater than $105: one-half of CPI change and 1%, multiplied by group 4 average wage (Maximum yearly wage adjust- ments: 3%) Shift premium: Foreman/act- ing foreman: $4.50 per hour. $3 per hour for work between 6:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 6% of gross earnings for vacation pay; 4% for statutory holiday pay. Overtime: Time and one-half for hours worked after 40 hours per week. Double time there- after. Double time for work on a statutory holiday. Meal allowance: If working more than 2 hours of overtime, and every 4 hours thereafter, employer provides hot meal or $25 if no meal is feasible. Medical benefits: O.P.C.M.I.A. Health & Welfare Plan of Al- berta. Life-change leave: Up to 5 days paid leave for getting married or divorced.

• Cover