Canadian Labour Reporter

3 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2017 CANADIAN LABOUR REPORTER COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS < from pg. 1 odorant handling bonus. Effect- ive Jan.1, 2018: $1.49 per hour. $25 per month for employees who have been requested to ob- tain Alberta vehicle-inspection certificate. Effective Jan.1, 2018: $25.44 per month. Paid holidays: 11 days, plus 1 civic holiday in communities in which it is declared. 4 flex days per year. Vacations with pay: 3 weeks to start, 4 weeks after 7 years, 5 weeks after 16 years, 6 weeks after 24 years. Overtime: Double time for all work after 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week. May be banked, maximum 5 days at any given time, maximum cumula- tive 10 days per year. Meal allowance: When work- ing 2 hours overtime, reason- able meal will be provided in third hour and every 4 hours thereafter. Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate family (spouse, common-law spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, son, daughter, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandfather, grandmother, grandchildren, dependent-rela- tive living in employee's house- hold). 2 additional days for extended travel. Seniority - recall rights: 1 year. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours' pay at overtime rate or actual hours, whichever is greater. Probationary period: 180 days. Severance: 2.5 weeks of pay per year of service. Safety shoes: $400 every 2 years. Sample rates of monthly pay (current, after 1.75% in- crease): Electrician: $2,388 rising 1 step to $2,430 Mechanical services Technician/carpenter/machin- ist/millwright: $2,270 rising 1 step to $2,309 Auto body Technician/welder: $2,270 ris- ing 1 step to $2,309 Trade plant jobs Foreman - shop/foreman - tool crib: $4,261 rising 1 step to $4,336 Foreman - mechanical (Leth- bridge)/foreman - carpentry/ foreman - welding/foreman - mechanical/mechanical ser- vices coordinator: $3,938 rising 1 step to $4,007 Mechanic - operations/welder, pressure "B"/electrician/district mechanic/district welder/weld- er - operations/process electri- cian/sr. compressor mechanic/ service writer: $3,813 rising 1 step to $3,880 Welder/auto body technician/ carpenter/machinist/com- pressor mechanic/millwright/ district carpenter/mechanical services technician: $3,616 ris- ing 1 step to $3,679 Small engine mechanic: $3,035 rising 1 step to $3,088 General plant jobs Foreman, transportation & special services: $3,554 rising 1 step to $3,616 Utilization serviceman: $3,429 rising 1 step to $3,489 Foreman meter shop: $3,071 rising 1 step to $3,123 Chief equipment and vehicle dispatcher/metering system support/senior electronic and instrumentation support: $2,914 rising 1 step to $2,963 Senior building operator/chief supplyman/equipment & ve- hicle dispatcher: $2,836 rising 1 step to $2,887 Heavy truck driver/senior me- ter technician/senior supplym- an/building operator 1/service installation support/material control support/operations dis- patcher/service dispatcher/field dispatcher/electronic and in- strumentation support: $2,383 rising 1 step to $2,425 Building operator 2/senior au- tomotive storesman-mechan- ical/meter technician/fabrica- tor/chart changer: $2,281 rising 1 step to $2,322 Editor's notes: Travel pay: When employees are required to work away from home base, per diem will be paid. For 1 to 49 days away: $8.11 per day. Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $8.25 per day. For 50 to 99 days away: $19.86 per day. Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $20.21 per day. For 100 or more days away: $33.10 per day. Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $33.68 per day. Em- ployer will provide for board and lodging. Standby allowance: $37.70 for each normal day, $98.46 for each scheduled day of rest or holiday. Effective Jan. 1, 2018: $38.36 for each normal day, $100.18 for each scheduled day of rest and holiday. Personal vehicle use: $20 per month parking allowance when employee uses own vehicle for business use. CONSTRUCTION Saint John Construction Association Saint John, N.B. (1,400 construction workers, general labourers) and the Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA), Local 900 Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 25, 2016, to June 30, 2018. Signed on Jan. 25, 2016. Paid holidays: 10 days. Vacations with pay: 10% paid weekly. Minimum 2 weeks' va- cation per year for permanent employees. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after regular hours or on Saturday or Sunday. Meal allowance: When working more than 2 hours of overtime, hot meal or $15 will be provided, and for each sub- sequent 4-hour period. Pension: Employer will pay $3.60 per hour per employee into Labourer's Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada. $5.10 per hour will be paid for all overtime hours. Bereavement leave: 4 days for death of wife, child, moth- er, father. 3 days for death of brother, sister. 1 day for death of grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew. Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours' pay. Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide rain suits, rubber boots, when required. Tool allowance: When tools are damaged or destroyed by fire or lost by theft when in place of storage and under em- ployers' lock and key, liability will not exceed value of tools or $150 whichever is less. Mileage: $0.45 per kilometre for all work outside 35-kilo- metre radius of Saint John, Sussex, St. Andrews, Gage- town. $100 per worked room and board for all work outside 80-kilometre radius, plus trav- elling time, maximum 8 hours at start and finish of employ- ment. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after increase): Labourers: $18.74 rising 2 steps to $20.15 Mason helper (tender): $22.72 rising 2 steps to $23.58 Editor's notes: Shelter: Employer — on any job where 5 or more employees work — will provide sanitary and sepa- rate place of shelter where employees may change clothes and eat lunch. Tables and benches will be provided and shelter will be heated during cold weather. Standby allowance: $37.70 for normal day, $98.46 for day of rest or holiday.

• Cover