Canadian Labour Reporter

December 11, 2017 4 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2017 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS Safety shoes: $150 per year. Mileage: $0.51 per kilometre weekly travel allowance for work more than 90 kilometres away from home base of Cal- gary or Edmonton. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 2% increase): Group 1 (journeymen mechan- ic/welder/millwright): $39.79 rising 2 steps to $40.59 Group 2 primary operator: $34.82 rising 2 steps to $35.52 Group 3 plant operator (as- phalt, gravel crushing, screen- ing and/or washing): $34.05 rising 2 steps to $34.73 Group 4 (maintenance techni- cian/excavator-grader/produc- tion loader/sales loader): $33.28 rising 2 steps to $33.95 Group 5 assistant operator (as- phalt/gravel crushing, screen- ing and/or washing/production loader): $30.38 rising 2 steps to $30.99 Group 6 (30-ton-articulating- rock truck/water truck op- erator): $27.85 rising 2 steps to $28.41 Group 7 plant helper (18 months experience or more with Burnco): $27.74 rising 2 steps to $28.29 Group 8 plant helper (0 to 18 months experience with Burnco): $25.60 rising 2 steps to $26.11 Editor's notes: Travel expenses: For work more than 90 kilometres away from home base of Calgary or Edmonton, employer will provide accommodations or $50 for employees who live in own trailers, motor homes, or who make other approved arrangements. $60-per-day food subsidy (previously $56 per day). Training fund: Employer will pay $0.05 per hour (previously $0.04 per hour) for each hour worked by each employee into Operating Engineers Local Union No. 955 Training Trust Fund. SHIPPING Saint John Port Authority Saint John, N.B. (14 students, labourers, operators) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Local 61124 Renewal agreement: Effective June 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2021. Signed on Aug. 29, 2017. Wage adjustments: Effective June 1, 2016: 2.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 2.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 2.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 2.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2020: 2.5% Effective Jan. 1, 2021: 2.5% Paid holidays: 12 days, plus 2 half-days (Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve). Vacations with pay: 1 1/4 days per month to start, 1 2/3 days per month after 10 years, 2 1/12 days per month after 20 years, 2 1/2 days per month after 30 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work in excess of regular hours between Monday and Friday. Double time for all work on Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday between midnight and 8 a.m. May be taken as time off in lieu, maximum 80 hours. Meal allowance: $12.50 when working more than 3 hours of overtime immediately following regular shift or when working 10.5 hours on a Saturday, Sun- day or statutory holiday. Medical benefits: Employer pays 60% of premiums, employ- ee pays 40% of premiums. Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Sick leave: 1 1/4 days per month. Pension: Canada Port Author- ities Pension Plan. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, common-law partner, child or ward of employee, father-in-law, mother-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, grand- parents, grandchild, relative residing in employee's house- hold). 1 day for death of son- in-law, daughter-in-law, broth- er-in-law, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle. 1 day to attend funeral as pallbearer. Seniority – recall rights: 15 months. Call-in pay: The greater of applicable overtime rate, or 4 hours pay at time and one-half normal rate of pay. Probationary period: 6 months. Discipline: Sunset clause is 2 years. Severance: 2 weeks' pay plus 1 week's pay for each year of ser- vice, maximum 28 weeks' pay for first layoff. 1 week's pay for each year of service, maximum 27 weeks' pay for second and subsequent layoff. If employee has 10 or more years of service and was employed before June 1, 2002, employee will receive amount multiplied by half weekly rate of pay by number of years of service, maximum 26 weeks. Safety shoes: $225 every 12 months. Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 16% increase): Level 1 student: $13.74 rising 6 steps to $15.93 Level 2 labourer: $21.87 rising 6 steps to $25.36 Level 3 equipment operator Step 1: $ 23.76 rising 6 steps to $27.55 Step 2: $24.26 rising 6 steps to $28.13 Level 4 senior equipment op- erator Step 1: $26.09 rising 6 steps to $30.26 Step 2: $26.59 rising 6 steps to $30.84 Level 5 senior equipment op- erator with trade Step 1: $27.62 rising 6 steps to $32.03 Step 2: $28.12 rising 6 steps to $32.61 Level 6 team leader Step 1: $29.67 rising 6 steps to $34.41 Step 2: $30.17 rising 6 steps to $34.99 Level 7 licensed trade with spe- cialization: $35.75 rising 6 steps to $41.46 Level 8 event logistics Step 1: $23.76 rising 6 steps to $27.55 Step 2: $24.26 rising 6 steps to $28.13 Sample rates of annual pay (current): Engineering tech 1: $53,993 Engineering tech: $64,461 Editor's notes: Standby pay: When employee is required to be on standby during off-duty hours, employee will be paid $3 for each hour that employee is on standby. Social-justice fund: Employer will contribute $0.01 per regular hour worked by each employee to PSAC Social Justice Fund. Travel expenses: Accommodations or $50 for employees who make other arrangements. Standby pay: $3 for each hour that employee is on standby.

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