Common use of ARTICLE TERM Clause in Contracts

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall commence on the 1st day of May and end on the September and shall continue from year to year thereafter, unless either party gives notice in writing to the other not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days prior to the expiry date hereof of that party's intention to terminate this Agreement or to negotiate revisions thereto. Dated at this day of FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION Start Cook Start t Nurse Aide Activity Aide Star Health Care Aide Health Care Aide premium for Health Care Aide certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation as equivalent to the Health Care Aide course. Lead Hand If a nursing aide or health care aide is required by the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift (2300 to 0730) he or she shall receive premium of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The parties agree that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirementsof the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall commence on the 1st day of May and end on the September continue in effect until April and shall continue from year to year thereafterautomatically thereafter during annual periods of one (Iy)ear each, unless either party gives notice notifies the other in writing to the other not less than thirty days nor more than within ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date that it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. ion being given as to amendment of the Agreement, shall begin within fifteen (15) days following an agreement on the renewal or amendment of prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement until consummation of a new Agreement or completion of the proceedings prescribed under the Labour Relations Act, of the Province of Ontario, as amended, and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should A draft of the negotiated Agreement will be made available by either party within thirty (30) days of ratification of the Agreement reached. The second party will proofread the Agreement and return it to the first party within twenty (20) days of receipt. The first party will then correct the draft (if necessary) and sign and return the Agreement within fifteen (15) days. The second party will sign and return the agreed number of copies for execution within a further fifteen (15) days of receipt of the signed Agreement. The Agreement will be printed and distributed by whomever is responsible within a further thirty (30) days. following the of the previous agreement, a lump payment applicable to all hours paid during that month period (not to into the wage rates is payment will be paid in two equal increments with a December expiry or earlier, the first days of ratification and the second on or before July For all collective agreements with an expiry date hereof December the first within days after the month period has elapsed following the expiry of that party's intention to terminate this Agreement I the previous agreement and the second on or to negotiate revisions thereto. Dated at this day before July Pay Equity adjustment of FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION Start Cook Start t Nurse Aide Activity Aide Star per hour incorporated in the above hourly Health Care Aide: Health Care Aide Health Care Aide premium classification for Health Care Aide certificate Certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide courseCourse. Lead Hand If who work as Activity Aides and who hold a nursing aide Health Care Aide Certificate or Certificate shall receive the health care aide is required Care Aide rate. Classifications shown on the wage grid are for continuity only. Not all classifications shall be filled. Note: The Parties agree to abide by the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift (2300 to 0730) he or she shall receive premium Letter of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. Understanding RE: Environmental Services dated October PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix "A" of the Terms of Reference signed by the parties) This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union b employed by the Employer. The parties agree that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female cons job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and a including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “"new classification” " clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement Re: or Educational If the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care requires employees to take courses to upgrade or acquire new employment qualifications, the parties shall meet and deal with the issue prior to the implementation of the above. Failing agreement, this matter may be referred to Arbitrator The parties agree that Arbitrator will remain seized of this agreement satisfies any issue. Upon written request to the Administrator, and all requirementsof with reasonable notice, the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment Employer will provide an employee a letter of employment in the complete following format. Employees will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achievednot make such requests more than three times per year.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall commence on the 1st day of May and end on the September continue in effect until April and shall continue from year to year thereafterautomatically thereafter during annual periods of one (Iy)ear each, unless either party gives notice notifies the other in writing to the other not less than thirty days nor more than within ninety (90) days prior to the expiry expiration date hereof of that party's intention it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (I5) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement or to negotiate revisions theretocompletion of the proceedings prescribed under the Labour Relations Act, of the Province of Ontario, as amended, and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. Dated at fifteen (15) days of receipt of the signed Agreement. The Agreement will be printed and distributed by whomever is responsible within a further thirty (30) days. DATED this day of FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION Start Cook Start t Nurse Aide Activity Aide Star Health Care Aide Health Care Aide premium for Health Care Aide certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation as equivalent to the Health Care Aide course. Lead Hand If a nursing aide or health care aide is required by the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift (2300 to 0730) he or she shall receive premium of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. LOCAL May May May May May May A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide Course. Employees who work as Activity Aides and who hold a Health Care Aide Certificate or Recreation Certificate shall receive the Personal Support Worker rate. Classifications shown on the wage grid are for continuity only. Not all classifications shall be filled. Recosnition of Previous Experience The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one (1) annual increment for each one (1) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one (1) year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT This Pay Equity Agreement applies Note: The Parties agree to all the employees represented abide by the Union employed Letter of Understanding RE: Environmental Services dated October (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix "A" of the Terms of Reference signed by the Employer. parties) The parties agree that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following foliowing dates: Agreement renewal date in cents per hour Agreement renewal date in cents per hour Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “"new classification” " clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirementsof requirements of the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved.. ON BEHALF OF THE UNION DATED this

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall commence on the 1st day of May and end on the continue in effect until September and shall continue from automatically thereafter during annual periods of one (1) year to year thereaftereach, unless either party gives notice in writing to notifies the other not less than thirty days nor more than in writing, within ninety (90) days prior to the expiry date hereof of expiration date, that party's intention it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement, or to negotiate revisions theretocompletion of the proceedings prescribed under the Ontario Labour Relations Act, and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. Dated at this day of FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR OF THE UNION Classification Step -May-09 -May-I Dietary, Laundry Housekeeping Aides Probation Start Year Year Attendant Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Cook Probation Start t Nurse Aide Activity Aide Star Year Year Probation Start Year Year Wage Progression: In accordance with Article Health Care Aide: Health Care Aide Health Care Aide premium classification for Health Care Aide certificate Certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide courseCourse. Lead Hand If a nursing aide Activity Aide Certified: Activity Aide certified classification for Activity Aides with Health Care Aide Certificate or health care aide is required by the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift (2300 to 0730) he or she shall receive premium of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly ratesRecreation Certificate. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT This Pay Equity Agreement applies The Employer agrees to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The parties agree use its best efforts to ensure that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the agency staff will not work full shifts as replacements due to illness, etc., while bargaining unit shall employees remain on half shifts, provided such employees inform the Employer in advance of their availability. special consideration. F OF THE UNION DATED this day of LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL ICANADA Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if it is practical to schedule staff to be maintainedoff every other weekend. Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if staff can be scheduled to work ten days in a pay period without any lay-off or reduction in hours of work. Management will endeavour to schedule staff to be off every other weekend, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created work ten days in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in period if and when the Memorandum Ministry of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirementsof Health funds additional staffing subject to the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achievedEmployers' deployment needs for professional staffing.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall commence on the 1st day of May be effective from October I, O and end on the shall continue in effect until September and shall continue from automaticallythereafter during annual periods of one (I) year to year thereafter, each unless either party gives notice notifies the other in writing to the other not less than thirty days nor more than within ninety (90) days prior to the expiry expiration date hereof of that party's intention it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement or completion of the proceeding prescribed under The Labour Relations Act, of the Province of Ontario, and The Hospital Labour DisputesArbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. Present parking privileges to negotiate revisions theretobe maintained. Dated at this day INWITNESS WHEREOF THE PARTIES THIS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT ON THIS DAY OF On Behalf of FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION Start Cook Start t Nurse Aide Activity Aide Star Health Care Aide Health Care Aide premium for Health Care Aide certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation as equivalent to the Health Care Aide course. Lead Hand If a nursing aide or health care aide is required by Union On behalf of the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift (2300 to 0730) he or she shall receive premium of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one ) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix “A” of the Terms of Reference signed by the parties) This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The parties agree that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female constitutefemale job classes and the current differentials between job betweenjob classifications in the bargaining unit shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on negotiatedon December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for requirementfor a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirementsof requirements of the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved. DATED this 2nd day of December,-2004 On Behalf of the Union On behalf of the Employer SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL I CANADA WHEREAS the Ontario Labour Relations Board did on the of July, certify the Union as the bargaining agent for certain employees of the Employer, and whereas the parties hereto have agreed to enter into a Collective Agreement upon the terms hereinafter set forth.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall commence on the 1st day of be effective from May and end on the shall continue in effect until September and shall continue from automatically thereafter during annual periods of one (1) year to year thereafter, each unless either party gives notice notifies the other in writing to the other not less than thirty days nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the expiry expiration date hereof of that party's intention it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to the amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations an agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall be automatically extended until consummation of a new agreement or to negotiate revisions theretocompletion of the proceedings prescribed under The Labour Relations Act, of The Province of Ontario and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. Dated DATED at this day Hamilton as of FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE the of UNION Start Cook Start t Nurse Aide Activity Aide Star Health Care Aide Health Care Aide premium LOCAL IC ▇▇▇▇▇ NURSING HOME SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL Note: Premium for Health Care Aide certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation as equivalent Certificate or Activity Aide Certificate to the Health Care Aide course. Lead Hand If a nursing aide or health care aide is required by the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift be fifteen (2300 to 073015) he or she shall receive premium of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one (1) annual increment for each one (1) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix "A" of the Terms of Reference signed by the parties) This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The parties agree that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirementsof requirements of the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved. DATED this of INCORPO N The Employer and the Union agree that all provisions of the Collective Agreement to which this addendum is attached, shall be incorporated into the addendum and be applicable to part-time employees as hereinafter defined, unless such provisions are specifically excluded in their application to part-time employees. The Employer and the Union agree that the following Articles of the Collective Agreement shall apply to part-time employees: Same as full-time Agreement.