Canadian Labour Reporter

5 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2017 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS time for all hours in excess of 10 in one day or 40 in one week for paratransit employees. One and one-quarter time for hours worked on Sundays. Double time for employees called back after having left the job, mini- mum 4 hours at regular rate of pay. Up to 40 hours per calen- dar year can be banked. Medical benefits: Employer fully funds plan. Dental: 50/50 cost-shared plan. Sick leave: 0.069 hours for each hour of accumulated service, up to a maximum of 1,598 hours for clerks and 1,744 hours for all other employees. LTD: Full salary for 2 years and 90% thereafter, until date of pension plan eligibility or death. AD&D: 95% of monthly sal- ary for spouse and dependant children for death of permanent employee. 20% to each depen- dant child after death of spouse. Life insurance: Employer maintains group life insurance plan. Bereavement leave: 3 con- secutive working days with pay for death of immediate family member (spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or someone with equivalent step, common-law, or in-law relationship). Up to 2 of the days can be taken within 1 calendar year for deferred ceremonies. 1 day with pay for executor of an estate. Seniority – recall rights: 12 months. Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months. Severance: 2 1/3 days' pay for each completed year of service for employees continuously em- ployed for 10 or more years. Safety shoes: $100 per year, $150 per year, or $225 per year, depending on classification of job. Uniforms/clothing: New em- ployees receive pants, shirts, shorts, winter hat, socks, jacket, footwear. Points system used to acquire new items of clothing over time to fit needs. Ball caps, turban material, driving gloves, toques, wind jackets available to purchase with points. Coveralls and smocks supplied to jour- neypersons and tradespersons. Sample rates of hourly pay (current): Bus operator (student): $17.17 Bus operator: $22.90 rising in 3 steps to $26.92 Dispatcher: $29.62 rising in 2 steps to $31.35 Supervisor of equipment and maintenance: $32.76 rising in 3 steps to $36.12 Electronic technician: $27.33 rising in 3 steps to $30.12 Night foreman: $27.24 rising in 3 steps to $30.04 Fleet – parts storekeeper: $26.12 rising in 3 steps to $29.60 Tradesperson: $26.07 rising in 3 steps to $28.74 Assistant storekeeper: $24.60 rising in 3 steps to $27.85 Route maintenance worker: $24.55 rising in 3 steps to $27.07 Parts person: $23.22 rising in 3 steps to $26.12 Maintenance clerk: $21.84 ris- ing in 3 steps $24.60 Utility person 2: $23.15 rising in 3 steps to $25.52 Journeyperson: $30.05 rising in 3 steps to $32.15 Journeyperson apprentice: $28.61 Administration clerk: $20.58 rising in 5 steps to $26.12 Revenue administration clerk 1, service & information clerk, revenue & service clerk: $21.84 rising in 5 steps to $27.85 Payroll clerk 2, revenue admin- istration clerk 2: $24.60 rising in 5 steps to $31.48 Paratransit clerk: $25.59 Senior paratransit clerk: $28.80 Editor's notes: Transportation allowance: Transit employees will be allowed to ride free of charge on department vehicles. Service pay: Employees hired prior to Jan. 1, 2014, will receive service pay of $5 per month after 5 years of service with the department, and an additional $5 per month for each successive 5-year period. CONSTRUCTION Plasterers Employer Bargaining Agency Provincewide, Ontario (300 plasterers) and Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA) Renewal agreement: Effective May 1, 2016, to April 30, 2018. Signed on May 1, 2016. Shift premium: Foreman: When supervising 5 to 20 work- ers, the foreman will be paid 9% more than a journeyman. $1.50 for any employee required to work on a swing scaffold or bo- sun's (boatswain's chair). Paid holidays: 9 days. Vacations with pay: 12% paid. Overtime: Time and one-half for the first 4 hours worked af- ter regular hours. Double time thereafter. Tool allowance: Employers will supply derbies, straight edges, feather edges, plumb rods, cornice rods. All plaster- ers must have a full kit of tools: browning trowel, finishing trowel, gauging trowel, point- ing trowel, hawk, float, paddle, finishing brush, set of milter tools, hammer, chalk line, level, snips, saw, square, rule, 3 broad knives, Gyproc board knife, axe, safety glasses, stainless steel trowel, measuring tape, putty knife, drywall knife, corner tool, rasping tool, clean brush, drill/ screw gun, hand level, plumb bob. Drywall taper to supply own pole sander; employer will supply sandpaper. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after increase): Territorial jurisdiction The counties of Victoria, Dur- ham, Ontario, York, Dufferin, Simcoe, Peel. The districts of Muskoka, Haliburton, also part of the county of Halton: $50.53 rising 2 steps to $52.48 The district of Sudbury, Manitoulin Island, Algoma, Nipissing (save and except to Townships of Cambers, Stra- thy, Briggs and Strathcona), Parry Sound, Cochrane, Ti- miskaming, the townships of Chambers, Strathy, Briggs and Strathcona in the district of Nipsissing: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71 The counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Leeds, Frontenac, Grenville, Dundas, Stormont, Glengarry, Prescott, Russell. The Regional Munici- pality of Ottawa-Carleton, La- nark, Renfrew, Prince Edward: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71 The counties of Essex and Kent: $46.42 rising 2 steps to $47.59 The counties of Lambton: $46.42 rising 2 steps to $47.59 The cities of Hamilton, Burling- ton, Brantford and the adjacent area. The counties of Halton, Wentworth, Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand and the townships of Caistor, North and South Grimsby in the County of Lin- coln: $49.16 rising 2 steps to $50.71 Editor's notes: Parking: The employer will reimburse any employee who is obliged to pay more than one parking charge per day by reason of being reassigned to — or transferred from — more than one job site on a work day. Travel allowance: $100 per day for work outside the designated free zones (a radius of 32 kilometres from Toronto city hall, 60 kilometres from Ottawa's Carling Avenue and Preston Streets, and 48 kilometres from all other centres).

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