Canadian Labour Reporter

September 25, 2017 6 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2017 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS September 25, 2017 utility worker/operations op- erator/building maintenance worker/solid waste operator/ arena operator: $28.06 rising 3 steps to $29.99 Labourer - utilities: $26.94 ris- ing 3 steps to $28.80 Transit utility worker: $26.62 rising 3 steps to $28.45 Labourer - operations/labourer - building maintenance/labour- er - garage: $23.23 rising 3 steps to $24.84 Co-op students: $19.02 rising 3 steps to $20.34 Casual labourer 4 (1,801 or more hours): $17.85 rising 3 steps to $19.09 Casual labourer 3 (1,201 to 1,800 hours): $17.03 rising 3 steps to $18.20 Casual labourer 2 (601 to 1,200 hours): $16.20 rising 3 steps to $17.31 Casual labourer 1 (up to 600 hours): $15.36 rising 3 steps to $16.42 Unlicensed casual 4: $16.77 ris- ing 3 steps to $17.93 Unlicensed casual 3: $16.11 ris- ing 3 steps to $17.22 Unlicensed casual 2: $15.44 ris- ing 3 steps to $16.51 Unlicensed casual 1: $14.77 ris- ing 3 steps to $15.79 Editor's notes: Special-leave credits: Employees will accumulate special-leave credits at one-half day per month, maximum 30 days. Prescription safety glasses: Technical staff required to work in designated eye-protection areas of public works and transit garages will receive $250 for glasses every 5 years and $160 for replacement prescription lenses every 2 years. Service pay: $5 per month after 10 years' service; $10 per month after 15 years'; $15 per month after 20 years'; $20 per month after 25 years'; $25 per month after 30 years'; $30 per month after 35 years'. TRANSPORTATION Highway Customs Warehouse Winnipeg (3 warehouse workers) and Teamsters Canada Local 979 Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2017, to Dec. 31, 2019. Signed in May 2017. Shift premium: $0.75 per hour for lead hands. Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 4% to start, 2 weeks or 4% after 1 year, 3 weeks or 6% after 3 years, 4 weeks 8% after 9 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 15 years, 6 weeks or 12% after 21 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for work after 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week. Double time after 2 hours. Medical benefits: Prairie Teamsters Health and Welfare Plan. Sick leave: After 1 year, one- half day per month, maximum 30 days. Pension: Prairie Teamsters Pension Plan. Employer will contribute $4.30 per hour (pre- viously $4.10 per hour) after 9 months' employment. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate fam- ily (spouse, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, stepfather, stepmother). Seniority - recall rights: 12 months, 18 months after 5 years' seniority. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours at double time. Probationary period: 128 hours within 30 days. Uniforms/clothing: $400 per year (previously $375 per year). Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 6% increase): Warehouseperson: $24.17 ris- ing 3 steps to $25.64 Editor's notes: Bonding: Premiums for bonding will be paid by employer. Hazardous materials: If employees handle hazardous materials they will be supplied with any necessary safety equipment (rubber clothing, goggles, coveralls) to protect employee. GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION Hamlet of Kugluktuk Kugluktuk, Nunavut (130 inside, outside workers) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (as represented by its component the Nunavut Employees Union) Renewal agreement: Effec- tive April 1, 2016, to March 31, 2020. Signed on May 30, 2016. Paid holidays: 13 days. Vacations with pay: 15 days to start, 20 days after 2 years, 25 days after 10 years, 30 days after 15 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after regular hours. Double time after 4 hours. Meal allowance: After 3 hours of overtime, employer will pro- vide meal or meal allowance. Medical benefits: Northern Employee Benefits Services group benefit plan. Sick leave: 1.25 days per month, maximum 25 days. AD&D: Coverage of 3-times annual salary. Life insurance: Coverage of 3-times annual salary. Pension: Northern Employee Benefits Services pension plan. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, common-law spouse, child, adoptive child, stepchild, foster-child, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandchildren, grandparents, relative residing in employee's household). Seniority - recall rights: 12 months. Call-in pay: The greater of compensation at overtime rate or compensation equivalent to 4 hours' pay at straight-time rate. Compensation will be made in cash or compensatory leave, as desired by employee. Probationary period: 6 months. Discipline: Sunset clause is 2 years. Severance: 2 weeks' pay for first year of service and 1 week for each year thereafter. Safety shoes: $275 per year. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide: rubber gloves for water, sewer and garbage employees and swampers; work gloves for mechanics, operators, foreman, public works employees, apprentices and recreation maintainers; winter coveralls (suitable for arctic operating conditions) for swampers, drivers, mechan- ics, operators, foreman, public works employees, recreation maintainers and apprentices; summer coveralls for water, sewer, and garbage employees, mechanics, public works em- ployees, recreation maintainers and bylaw officers; safety glass- es and goggles for public works employees and mechanics; uniform clothing issue to bylaw workers on initial hire consist- ing of 3 shirts, 2 neckties, insig- nia, summer and winter jacket. Tool allowance: Employer will replace worn out or broken tools used and owned by jour- neymen and apprentices.

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