Canadian Labour Reporter

February 12, 2018 6 Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2018 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS (current, after increase): Wage progression for current seniority employees $20 rising 3 steps to $20.50 $19 rising 3 steps to $20.50 $18 rising 3 steps to $20.50 $17 rising 3 steps to $20.25 $16 rising 3 steps to $19 New-hire wage progression $15 rising 5 steps to $20.50 Maintenance wage progression $23.88 rising 3 steps to $24.38 $22.72 rising 3 steps to $23.22 Editor's notes: Training fund: Employer will pay $0.02 per hour to Unifor Paid Education Leave. Justice fund: Em- ployer will pay $0.01 per hour to Unifor Social Justice Fund. EDUCATION Grant MacEwan University Edmonton (1,000 academic staff members) and the Grant MacEwan University Faculty Association (GMUFA) Renewal agreement: Effective July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2019. Signed on Aug. 2, 2017. Paid holidays: 12 days, plus 3 Christmas floater holidays. Vacations with pay: Professori- al faculty, professional resource faculty, science-lab instructors, science lab supervisors with full-time appointments: 44 days per year. English as additional language instructors with full- time appointments: 25 days per year. University preparation instructors with full-time ap- pointments: 30 days per year. Faculty development coordina- tor and faculty school advisors with full-time appointments: 20 days per year during the first 5 years of service, 25 days per year during the sixth through tenth years of service, 30 days per year thereafter. Medical benefits: Employer pays 80% of premiums, employ- ee pays 20% of premiums. Dental: Employer pays 80% of premiums, employee pays 20% of premiums. Sick leave: 18 days per aca- demic year. STD: Employer pays 100% of premiums. AD&D: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Pension: Local Authorities Pension Plan. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death of spouse, parent, guardian, grandparent, child, foster-child, brother or sister of employee or employee's spouse, person residing with employee, family member for whom em- ployee is primary caregiver. Seniority – recall rights: 18 months. Probationary period: 3 years. Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months. Severance: The lesser of em- ployee's annual regular salary for each year of tenure-track or tenured service or employee's regular annual salary. Sample rates of annual pay (current, after increase): Professorial faculty members Assistant professor: $66,788 ris- ing 14 steps to $108,110 Associate professor: $66,788 rising 19 steps to $128,401 Professor: $66,788 rising 24 steps to $152,500 Overload: $7,000 per course (for 45 IH course) Professional resource faculty with rank Counsellor 1/librarian 1: $71,391 rising 9 steps to $97,299 Counsellor 2/librarian 2: $71,391 rising 14 steps to $115,561 Counsellor 3/librarian 3: $71,391 rising 19 steps to $137,250 Faculty development coordina- tor and professional resource faculty without rank Faculty development coordi- nator and PRF without rank: $71,391 rising 19 steps to $115,561 Nurse educators Bachelor: $63,730 rising 7 steps to $ 81,082 Graduate degree: $63,730 rising 10 steps to $89,897 Faculty school advisors/in- structional assistants (IAS) Faculty school advisors/IAS: $53,768 rising 11 steps to $78,500 Lab instructors and lab supervi- sors Lab instructors: $49,634 rising 12 steps to $75,000 Lab supervisors: $69,704 rising 9 steps to $95,000 Overload: $3,600 per lab (for 36 IH lab) English as an additional lan- guage and university prepara- tion instructors: $67,347 rising 10 steps to $95,000 EAL overload: $54 per hour UP overload: $70 per hour Sessional lab instructors: $3,850 per 36 IH lab Sessional English as an addi- tional language instructors and sessional university preparation instructors EAL instructors: $54 per hour UP instructors $ 74 per hour CULTURAL INDUSTRIES National Gallery of Canada Ottawa (230 gallery employees, administrative staff, students) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Renewal agreement: Effective July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2019. Signed on Aug. 22, 2017. Wage adjustments: Effective July 1, 2017: 1.25% Effective July 1, 2018: 1.25% Shift premium: $1.50 per hour for all hours worked, including overtime hours, between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. $1.25 per hour for all regularly scheduled hours at straight-time rates worked on Saturday and Sunday. $800 per year when employee occupies a position — identified by gallery as bilingual — and employee meets language requirements, as confirmed by examination Paid holidays: 11 days. Vacations with pay: 9.375 hours per month to start, 12.5 hours per month after 5 years, 15.625 hours per month after 16 years, 18.75 hours per month after 28 years. Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after regular hours. Double time after 6 hours of overtime. Meal allowance: $12 after 3 hours of overtime. $12 after subsequent 4 hours of overtime. Medical benefits: Public Ser- vice Health Care Plan. Dental: Public Service Dental Care Plan. Sick leave: 9.375 hours per month. Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (father, mother, stepfather, step- mother, foster-parent, brother, sister, spouse, child, child of spouse, stepchild, ward of em- ployee, child adopted through Aboriginal practices, grandpar- ent, grandchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, any relative residing in employee's house- hold). 1 day for death of son-in- law, daughter-in-law, brother- in-law, sister-in-law. Call-in pay: Greater of mini- mum 4 hours' pay at overtime rate of pay for each call back, maximum 8 hours' pay per 8-hour period or compensa- tion at overtime rate for time worked, provided that period worked is not contiguous to

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