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May 15, 2017
Alberta cement plant workers
denied DB pension enrolment
A DISAGREEMENT about
when seven workers were hired
saw them turned down for par-
ticipation in a company's defined
benefit (DB) pension plan.
The workers were originally
hired on a temporary basis in 2014
at Lafarge Canada's cement plant
in Exshaw, Alta.
Paul Svoboda, Paul Vargas,
Luke Poirer, Norbert Wroblewski,
Matthew Duggan, Andrew Palm-
er and John Lott were employed
for a fixed term that was to expire
Family status accommodation
has limits: Labour board
Employee's request
to aid spouse with children
doesn't mean legal duty
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
A FEDERAL government employee's request
to get home 30 minutes earlier to help his spouse
care for special-needs children did not invoke a
legal obligation to accommodate based on fam-
ily status, the Canada Public Service Labour Rela-
tions and Employment Board ruled.
Pascal Guilbault was a lawyer who was hired
by the Department of National Defence (DND) in
October 2011 to be a claims officer. The first few
years of his tenure with DND went smoothly and
he had a good relationship with his manager, who
made it clear she was open to requests for flexibil-
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Continental Electrical Motor Services — Alberta pg. 3 Foothills Regional
Emergency Services Commission — Alberta pg. 4 Corporation of the City of
Peterborough — Ontario pg. 4 Hudson's Bay Company — British Columbia
pg. 5 River East Transcona School Division — Manitoba pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Lester
Balajadia
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
Bad-faith bargaining
D-J Composites rapped by N.L.
labour board for attempts to erase
seniority during collective
bargaining
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
London, Ont., Greyhound bus driver refused work after 65th birthday pg. 8
see Arbitration > pg 8
see 'Borderline' > pg. 7
FOOD PRODUCTION
Parmalat Canada
Belleville, Ont.
(490 food production workers) and Black Diamond
Cheese Employees Independent Union Local 555
Renewal agreement: Effective
Feb. 29, 2016, to Feb. 28, 2019.
Signed on Feb. 29, 2016.
Shift premium: $1 per hour for
dual-ticketed (industrial mill-
wright/industrial electrician)
skilled trades. $0.74 per hour
(previously $0.64 per hour) for
all hours worked between noon
and 5:59 p.m. $0.94 per hour
