Facilities Collective Agreement 2006-2010 - Labour Relations Board

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2006-2010
Health Services & Support
Facilities Subsector
Collective Agreement
Between
Association of Unions
(HEU, BCGEU, IUOE, CSWU,
IBEW, USWA, BCNU, UBCJA,
UAJAP&P, IUPAT)
And
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2006-2010
Health Services & Support
Facilities Subsector
Collective Agreement
Between
Association of Unions
(HEU, BCGEU, IUOE, CSWU,
IBEW, USWA, BCNU, UBCJA,
UAJAP&P, IUPAT)
And
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Without Prejudice
Errors & Omissions
Excepted
Subsequent to the ratification of the 2001-2004
Facilities Subsector Collective Agreement, the Health
and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act (the
“Act”) and the Health Sector Labour Adjustment
Regulation (the “Regulation”) were enacted.
The Act was passed and became effective on January
28, 2002. The Regulation was enabled and became
effective on March 1, 2002.
The Act and Regulation render certain provisions of
this Collective Agreement void and provide for certain
rights and obligations different from those set out in
this Collective Agreement. Those provisions which are
impacted by the Act and Regulation are identified by
shading.
Identification of or non-identification of any provision
in this Agreement with shading is without prejudice to
any position that HEABC or the Facilities Bargaining
Association may take in any forum regarding the
impact of the Act and Regulation on this Agreement.
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Table of Contents
Page
ARTICLE 1 - PREAMBLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.01 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.02 Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ARTICLE 2 - DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.01 Definition of Employee Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.02 Practical Nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.03 Common-Law Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.04 Employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ARTICLE 3 - GENERALCONDITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.01 Effective and Terminating Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.02 Labour Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.03 Future Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.04 Article Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
ARTICLE 4 - NO DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.01 No Discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.02 Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.03 Complaints Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ARTICLE 5 - UNION RECOGNITION AND RIGHTS . . . 5
5.01 Sole Bargaining Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.02 Union Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.03 Union Check Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.04 Induction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.05 Shop Stewards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.06 Badges and Insignia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.07 Bulletin Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.08 Legal Picket Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.09 Union Advised of Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.10 Notice of Union Representative Visits . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.11 Union/Management Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
ARTICLE 6 - MANAGEMENT RIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.01 Management Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.02 Medical Examination, Vaccination and Inoculation 9
ARTICLE 7 - EMPLOYER PROPERTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.01 Return of Employer Property on Termination . . . . . 9
7.02 Employer to Repair or Indemnify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.03 Reimbursement of Legal Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.04 Employer to Continue to Supply Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.05 Uniforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.05.01 Uniforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.05.02 Joint Committee on Uniforms . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.05.03 Uniform Allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
ARTICLE 8 - UNION/MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE . . . 10
8.01 Committee on Labour Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.02 Union Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.03 Union/Management Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.04 Committee Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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ARTICLE 9 - GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9.01 Union Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9.02 Grievance Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9.03 Right to Grieve Disciplinary Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.03.01 Disciplinary Action Grievable . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.03.02 Employee Notified of File Documentation . 12
9.03.03 Removal of Disciplinary Documents . . . . . . 12
9.03.04 Introduction of Evidence at Hearing . . . . . . 12
9.04 Grievance Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.04.01 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.04.02 Step One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.04.03 Step Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.04.04 Step Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.04.05 Canada Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.05 Policy Grievance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.06 Dismissal/Suspension for Alleged Cause . . . . . . . . . 14
9.07 Reinstatement of Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.08 Technical Objections to Grievances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.09 Industry Troubleshooter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.09.01 Issues Referred to Troubleshooter . . . . . . . . 14
9.09.02 Roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.09.03 Roles/Responsibilities of Troubleshooter . . . 15
9.09.04 Agreed to Statement of Facts . . . . . . . . . . . 15
ARTICLE 10 - EXPEDITED ARBITRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.01 Roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.02 Expedited Arbitrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.01 Issues for Expedited Arbitration . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.02 Expedited Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.03 Location of Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.04 Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.05 Agreed to Statement of Facts . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.06 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.02.07 Mediation Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10.02.08 Issuance of Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10.02.09 Status of Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10.02.10 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10.02.11 Authority of Arbitrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10.02.12 Quarterly Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ARTICLE 11 - ARBITRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11.01 Composition of Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11.02 Dismissal/Suspension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
11.03 Authority of Arbitration Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
11.04 Time Limit for Decision of Arbitration Board . . . . . 19
11.05 Employee Called as a Witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
11.06 Arbitration Board Hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.07 Expenses of Arbitration Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.08 Reinstatement of Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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ARTICLE 12 - EVALUATION REPORTS, PERSONNEL
FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
12.01 Evaluation Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
12.02 Personnel File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ARTICLE 13 - PROBATIONARY PERIOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ARTICLE 14 - PROMOTION, TRANSFER, DEMOTION,
RELEASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.01 Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.02 Qualifying Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.03 Temporary Promotion or Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
14.04 Relieving in Higher and Lower-Rated Positions . . . 22
14.05 Promotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
14.06 Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
14.07 Demotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
14.08 Re-employment After Retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14.09 Re-employment After Voluntary Termination or
Dismissal for Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14.10 Supervisory or Military Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14.11 Seniority Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14.12 Portability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14.12.01 Probation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14.12.02 Portable Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14.13 Previous Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14.14 More Favourable Rate or Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14.15 Part-Time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14.15.01 Qualifying Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14.15.02 Increment Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
14.15.03 Seniority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ARTICLE 15 - JOB DESCRIPTIONS, NOTICE OF NEW
AND CHANGED POSITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ARTICLE 16 - JOB POSTINGS AND APPLICATIONS . . . 26
16.01 Job Postings and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
16.02 Change to Start and Stop Times, Days Off and
Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
16.03 Job Posting Process and Regional Postings . . . . . . . 28
16.04 Placement Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
16.05 Special Project Vacancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
16.06 Applications from Absent Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16.07 Temporary Appointments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16.08 Notice to Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16.09 Notice of Successful Applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16.10 Grievance Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16.11 Float Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ARTICLE 17 - TECHNOLOGICAL, AUTOMATION AND
OTHER CHANGES/
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AGREEMENT 31
17.01 Technological Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
17.01.01 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
17.01.02 Employment Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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17.01.03 Enhanced Consultation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
17.02 Joint Health Care Reform/Labour Adjustment
Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
17.03 Job Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
17.04 Process - Reduction and Restructuring . . . . . . . . . . 32
17.05 Definition of Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
17.06 Bumping (Effective May 1, 2006) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
17.07 Notice of Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
17.08 Layoff Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
17.09 Employment Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
17.10 Interim Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
17.11 Transfers and Closures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
17.12 Contracting Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
17.13 Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
ARTICLE 18 - TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT . . . . . 37
18.01 Employer’s Notice of Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
18.02 Employee’s Notice of Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
18.03 Employment Abandoned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ARTICLE 19 - SCHEDULING PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
19.01 Scheduling Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
19.02 Unusual Job Requirements of Short Duration . . . . 39
ARTICLE 20 - HOURS OF WORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
20.01 Continuous Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
20.02 Hours of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
20.03 Rest and Meal Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
20.04 Split Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
20.05 Part Time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
20.06 Daylight Savings Time Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
ARTICLE 21 - OVERTIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
ARTICLE 22 - SHIFT, WEEKEND AND TRADES
QUALIFICATION PREMIUMS . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ARTICLE 23 - CALLBACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ARTICLE 24 - CALL-IN - STATUTORY REQUIREMENT 45
ARTICLE 25 - ON-CALLDIFFERENTIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ARTICLE 26 - TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCE . . . . . . . 45
ARTICLE 27 - STATUTORY HOLIDAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
27.01 Statutory Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
27.02 Super Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
27.10 Part-Time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ARTICLE 28 - VACATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
28.01 Vacation Entitlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
28.02 Supplementary Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
28.03 Vacation Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
28.04 Splitting of Vacation Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
28.05 Vacation Pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
28.06 Vacations Non-Accumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
28.07 Vacation Entitlement Upon Dismissal . . . . . . . . . . . 51
28.08 Reinstatement of Vacation Days - Sick Leave . . . . . 51
28.10 Part-Time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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ARTICLE 29 - COMPASSIONATE LEAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
ARTICLE 30 - SPECIALLEAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
30.02 Part-time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
ARTICLE 31 - SICK LEAVE, WCB, INJURY-ON-DUTY . . 53
31.04 Leave - Workers’Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
31.11 Cash Pay-Out of Unused Sick Leave Credits . . . . . 56
31.12 Other Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
31.13 Part-Time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
ARTICLE 32 - EDUCATIONALLEAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
32.01 Employer Requested Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
32.02 In-Service Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
32.03 Employee Requested Long Term Leave . . . . . . . . . . 57
32.04 Paid Education Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
ARTICLE 33 - JURY DUTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
ARTICLE 34 - LEAVE - UNPAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
34.01 Unpaid Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
34.02 Unpaid Leave - After Three Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
34.03 Unpaid Leave - Affecting Seniority and Benefits . . 59
34.04 Unpaid Leave - Union Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
34.05 Unpaid Leave - Public Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
ARTICLE 35 - MATERNITY AND PARENTALLEAVE . . . 61
35.01 Maternity Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
35.02 Maternity Leave Allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
35.03 Parental Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
35.04 Parental Leave Allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
35.05 Benefits Continuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
35.06 Deemed Resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
35.07 Entitlements Upon Return to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
35.08 Maternity and/or Parental Leave Allowance . . . . . . 64
ARTICLE 36 - ADOPTION LEAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ARTICLE 37 - OCCUPATIONALHEALTH AND SAFETY 64
37.01 Occupational Health and Safety Committee . . . . . . 64
37.02 Aggressive Patients/Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
37.03 Vaccination and Inoculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
37.04 Video Display Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
37.05 Transportation of Accident Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
37.06 Working Alone or in Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
37.07 Employee Workload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE 38 - HEALTH CARE PLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
38.01 Medical Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
38.02 Dental Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
38.03 Extended Health Care Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
ARTICLE 39 - LONG-TERM DISABILITY INSURANCE
PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
ARTICLE 40 - GROUPLIFE INSURANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
ARTICLE 41 - MUNICIPALPENSION PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . 69
41.01 Municipal Pension Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
ARTICLE 42 - EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COVERAGE 70
ARTICLE 43 - SEVERANCE ALLOWANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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43.01 Employees Who Qualify Defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
43.02 Definition of Service Related to Calculation of
Severance Allowance Monies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
43.03 Calculation of Severance Allowance Monies . . . . . . 72
ARTICLE 44 - VOLUNTEERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ARTICLE 45 - CHILD CARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ARTICLE 46 - MORGUE SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ARTICLE 47 - PRINTING OF THE AGREEMENT . . . . . . . 73
ARTICLE 48 - WAGE SCHEDULES, ATTACHMENTS
AND ADDENDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
48.03 Wage Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
48.04 General Wage Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
48.05 Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
48.06 Pay Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
48.07 Effective Date of Wages and Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ARTICLE 49 - PAY EQUITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Interim Pay Equity Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Job Value Comparison Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Disputes Pay Equity Arbitrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Framework of Job Evaluation Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Ongoing Pay Equity Implementation Review
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Group Life Insurance Plan
ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Long-term Disability Insurance Plans
ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Casual Employees
ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Maintenance Agreement and Classification Manual
Maintenance Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Classification Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Report and Recommendations of Industrial Inquiry
Commissioner
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
History of the Dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
An Overview of the Ever-Changing Health Care
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Schedule One to the Report and
Recommendations of Industrial Inquiry
Commissioner V.L. Ready Dated May, 1996 . . . . 151
Employment Security and Labour Force
Adjustment Agreement (ESLA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
25 Clarifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
When and to Whom is a Comparable Job Offer
Issued? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Generally Comparable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Policy Dispute Resolution Process - Employment
Security and Labour Force Adjustment
Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Dispute Resolution Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Employment Security and Labour Force
Adjustment Agreement - ESLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Section 8 - ESLAJob Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Memorandum of Understanding Re: Joint Health
Care Reform Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Re: Report of the Royal Commission on Health Care
and Costs - Education and Training of Employees
LETTER OF INTENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Re: Workload and Safety in the Workplace
ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Return to Work Programs
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Re: Return to Work Committee
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Re: LTD Claimants Governed by Plans Other Than
the Former HEU Master
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Re: Employer Specific Variations and Attachments
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Re: Direct Care Staff Positions/Upgrading
LETTER OF INTENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Re: Improvement to LTD Benefits
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Re: Trades Apprenticeship Training in Health Care
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Re: Isolation Allowance
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Re: Schedules with Work Days Greater than 7.5 Hours
and Up To and Including 8 Hours per Day
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Re: Manual Lifting
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Re: Local Discussions Regarding Nursing Shortage
Solutions
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Re: Benefits During the LTD Waiting Period
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