SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and the Company shall supply adequate transportation to a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting Any dependent contractor who has been on lack of work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he lay-off for six months (6) shall be paid removed the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no further obligation to a hospital such dependent contractor. Section Leave of Absence and/or Bereavement Leave When the requirements of the Company’s services will permit any dependent contractor or doctor and thence his residence. Should hereunder written application to the Company require any employee with a copy of said application to give the Union, may if approved the Company, be granted a surety bond, leave of absence in writing (with a copy to the premium involved shall be paid Union) for a period of thirty (30) calendar days. When considered by the Company. The primary obligation Company approval or rejection is to procure he given in writing with a copy to the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee Union, within thirty (30) calendar days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee and if approved such approval may not be withdrawn except by consent of the bonding requirementdependent contractor and the Company. If Under such leaves the proper notice is given, the employee shall dependent contractor will retain and accrue seniority only. leave may be allowed extended for additional periods of thirty (30) calendar days when approved by both the Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority will during such extensions. Any dependent contractor on leave of absence engaged in gainful employment prior written permission from both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority, and his name will be stricken from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to seniority he will longer be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available considered as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention an dependent contractor of the Company. Shortages Any dependent contractor requesting leave of absence for compassionate or bereavement reasons shall not be unreasonably denied such request. When a dependent contractor within the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement receives leave of absence in excess writing with a copy lo Union, to take a position within the which is beyond the sphere of fifty dollars the bargaining unit, he may retain his seniority for a maximum of ninety ($50.0090) calendar days within the bargaining unit. The starting date of such an appointment shall he posted in the terminal. Notice shall be given to the Union in writing prior to the dependent contractor leaving the bargaining unit for any period of time. During this leave of absence such dependent contractor shall continue to be covered by Health arid as provided in this Dependent contractors who have been granted such a leave of absence must remain a member of the Union and be covered under all benefits of the Collective Agreement shall not perform any duties covered by the bargaining unit. The successful appointee shall not have the right to hire and fire during the ninety (90) day leave of absence. Not later on the ninetieth (90) calendar day of this period, the dependent contractor must exercise his seniority rights returning to his former unit or relinquish all such seniority rights. Should the dependent contractor return or be returned to the bargaining unit for any reason, he must within the unit for a period of one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days prior to such privilege again. The dependent contractor and shall, except by mutual agreement between the parties hereto, take at least continuous period for meals at not less than thirty (30) minutes or more than one (1) hour in any one day. Wherever reasonably possible, meal periods will be thirty (30) minutes. Further, no dependent contractor shall be required to take more than a thirty (30) minute period, except between the hours of a.m. and No dependent contractor shall be compelled to take more than one hour during such period, nor compelled to take any part of such continuous hour, before he been on duty three and one-half (3 hours or after he has been on duty (5) hours. However, any dependent contractor directed by the Company to stay with or operate equipment during his meal period will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving at the service regular rate of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etcpay., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Master Freight Cartage Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he It shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent mandatory that each employee of the Company who is a member of the Union, sign and deliver to the Company, an authorization directing the Company to withhold from such employee's call-’s earnings, Union Dues, Initiation and/or Reinstatement Fees, as hereinafter provided for in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and this Section. Upon receipt thereof, the Company shall supply adequate transportation deduct from such employee’s earnings, on the first pay day in each month, the amount owed to a hospital the Union by each such employee for Union Dues, Initiation and/or Reinstatement Fees. However, should any such employee have no earnings due to him on the first pay day in any month or doctor and thence should such employee’s earnings be less than the amount such employee owes the Union for dues, then in that event, the deduction shall be made from the employee’s earnings on the next succeeding pay day on which his residenceearnings are sufficient to cover the amount of dues owed to the Union by such employee. Should By the sixth (26th) day of the current month, the Company require any employee shall mail to give the Financial Secretary of the Union, a surety bondcheque, made payable to the premium involved Union, for the amount of Dues, Initiation Reinstatement Fees the Company has withheld during such month, which shall be paid accompanied by a list, in duplicate, containing the names of the employee and the amount deducted from each such employee’s earnings. Upon receipt of such cheque and list, said Financial Secretary of the Union shall sign one (1) copy of such list, acknowledging receipt thereof, and promptly return such signed list to the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If Union will notify the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify in writing as to the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee amount of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is givenmonthly Union Dues, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company Initiation and/or Reinstatement Fees as provided for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearrangedLocal Union By-Laws.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he The Company shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent not lease or hire outside equipment to perform city pick-ups and deliveries unless all available and road-worthy equipment of the employee's call-Company is in guarantee providing he use. In the event, the above condition is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day met, and the Company utilizes leased or hired equipment, such equipment shall supply adequate transportation to a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should in all cases, be operated by employees of the Company require any employee provided such employees are available. The Company shall not sub-contract pick-up and delivery operations in Winnipeg until the Local Union has been given the opportunity to give provide extra help. When such work is sub-contracted, work will be given to firms having a surety bondCollective Agreement with the Teamsters Union if such firms have available equipment at the time required. When hired trucks are required in conformity with the above condition they will not be used in the city prior to a.m. unless all qualified employees on shifts starting at a.m. or before are given the opportunity of commencing work before hired trucks. In the event the Company fails to comply with the requirements outlined in Section above, the premium involved shall employees referred to therein will be paid entitled to payment for the time between the commencement of their shift and that of the hired truck in addition to their regular shift. The Company will not utilize the services of owner-operators in the first twelve (12) months following the effective date of this Agreement. After that point, owner-operators will not be utilized by the CompanyCompany except by mutual agreement with the Union. It is agreed that the Company and the Union will meet to establish rules in writing governing any such operation. The primary obligation Company shall provide the "Prairie Teamsters Health and Welfare Plan" to procure all employees or members of the bond shall be Union and eligible dependents coming under the jurisdiction of this Agreement. Any Member of the Union who is in the employ of the Company on a regular full-time basis on the Companyeffective date of the Health and Welfare Plan shall join the Plan from that date. If Any regular employee or member of the Union who is hired by the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within after the effective date of the Health and Welfare Plan, shall join the Plan on the first day of the month immediately following thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) calendar days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by employment with the Company. A standard It will be the responsibility of the Company to ensure that all employees are enrolled in the Health and Welfare Plan and for making premium remittances on their behalf. Failure of the Company to enroll employees, forward completed forms and/or remit premiums on the due date, being the tenth (10th) day of each month, to the Trustees will cause the Company to be liable for any claims arising thereof. It shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable Union's responsibility to supply all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought necessary enrollment forms to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay remit the premiums to employees leaving the service administrator, as designated by the Trustees of the Health and Welfare Plan. It shall be the Trustees responsibility after receipt of the premiums to distribute same to applicable insurance underwriters. Medical, surgical and obstetrical coverage in with the standard plan of service provided by Medicare. The cost of the Health Insurance Plan (currently per month) and the cost of provincial medicare (where applicable). Health insurance premiums will be adjusted based on cost experience necessary to maintain the current level of benefits during the term of this Agreement. Seventy-five percent (75%) by the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation ; and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than Twenty-five percent (25%) by the following pay dayparticipating member. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to The premiums payable by the employee must shall be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearrangedmade by payroll deduction and made once monthly.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If an An employee meets with an accident will lose his seniority rights and his name will be removed from seniority lists for any of the following reasons: the employee voluntarily quits his employment; the employee is discharged and and not reinstated pursuant to the provisions of the Grievance Procedure herein; the employee overstays a leave of absence granted by the Company without reasonable excuse; the employee is laid off and fails to return to work, or to satisfactory reasons for failing to do so, within seven (7) days after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutieshe has been notifiedto do so, he shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of by telephone or registered mail, it being the employee's call-in guarantee providing he responsibilityto keep the Company informed of his current telephone number and mailing address, immediately upon any change of his telephone number or mailing address; the employee is not receiving recalled to work within one (Iy)ear from the Workers' Compensation Board last day of work prior to the lay-off; the employee is absent from work for that day and three (3) consecutive working days without leave, or without supplying the Company shall supply adequate transportation to a hospital justifiable reason for his absence; the employee remains outside of the bargaining unit for a period longer than six (6) months; or doctor and thence his residence. Should the Company require employee accepts other employment during any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid leave of absence granted by the Company. The primary obligation In the event that an employee covered by the terms of this Agreement is transferred to procure a position outside the bond shall bargaining unit, and for any reason is returned to a position within the bargaining unit within the following period of six (6) months, he will retain the seniority he previously acquired and be given credit in his seniority for the period spent outside the bargaining unit. When being returned to the bargaining unit the employee will not be allowed to bump or displace another employee, and will be required to bid for any bulletined vacancy. Where a full-time employee elects to transfer to part-time status by successfully applying for a posted part-time vacancy, upon successful transfer to part-time status, the employee will be given credit in his seniority for his continuous service, and will be entitled to the part-time rate of pay. He will, therefore, for all purposes be treated as a part-time employee. Where two or more full-time employees have entered service on a full-time basis on the Company. If same day, and are listed on the full-time seniority listing with the same seniority date, any preference to be accorded on the basis of seniority be decided with reference to their respective lengths of continuous service with the Company on both full-time and part-time bases, the employee with the longest service being given preference in the decision. Where the length of continuous service on full-time and part-time bases of two or more employees is equal, any preference to be accorded on the basis of seniority will be decided with reference to their respective ages, the older man being given preference. Full-time employees are deemed to be senior to part-time employees. Section When reducing forces, senior employees covered by the terms of this Agreement with sufficient qualifications to perform the required work will be retained. In the event of a reduction of the work force, the employee displaced either directly or as a result of "bumping", will be given the opportunity to demonstrate his qualifications (ability) to perform the work of any other job classification in order that his seniority may him to remain working the shift to which he has been regularly posted, the term "shift" being defined in Schedule Iof this Agreement. Where qualifications are disputed by the Company, the employee will be given the opportunity to demonstrate his ability. Company shall exercise its discretion reasonably. Section The Local President and the Local Chairman (Chief ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for ▇▇) will be the last persons laid off and the first persons recalled. In the event of a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee reduction of the bonding requirementwork force within the bargaining unit, the Company will apply the principle of "last on first providing the qualified to perform the available work. If When recalling employees, the proper notice is givenCompany shall recall them in reverse order to that in which they were laid off, providing they have the necessary qualifications to perform the work. Where qualifications are disputed by the Company, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, given the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought opportunity to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducteddemonstrate his ability. The Company shall pay to employees leaving exercise its discretion reasonably There will be no lay-off effected where the service employee and the Union have not been notified three (3) working days in advance of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than lay-off taking effect. A copy of the following pay daylay-off Notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place by the Company at the time of issue. Such Notice shall be posted only in the terminal effected. In all cases where order to allow a laid-off employee to register with the Employment insurance Commission the Company rearranges any items in will issue a completed Record of Employment (▇▇▇) within seven (7) calendar days of the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to day the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearrangedlay-off takes effect.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. The Company will post a Seniority List twice yearly, January and July, setting out the name and date of hiring of each employee. Copies of such lists shall be provided to the Union. Section When an employee's employment is terminated by the Company for proper cause or he leaves by his own choice, he will automatically be struck from the Seniority List. If an employee meets on his own volition obtains a withdrawal card from Local he shall be struck from the Company Seniority In the event that the Company purchases a business or any part thereof, the employees of which are covered by a Collective Agreement with a Local Union of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, the seniority of such employee shall be computed from the date that they respectively first become an accident employee of ?he business aforesaid. Section Any employee who has been on lack of work lay-off for one year or more shall be removed from the Seniority List, and the Company shall be under no further obligation to such employee, except in the case where a lay-off is a direct result of a labour dispute, involving another company, or when the employee has accrued five years or more seniority in which case seniority be carried for eighteen 8) months. Section Leave of Absence When the requirementsof the Company's services will permit, any employee hereunder, upon written application to the Company with a copy of said application to the Union, may, if approved by the Company, be granted a leave of absence, in writing (with a copy to the Union), for a period of thirty (30) calendar days. Upon six (6) months prior notification an employee may request every three years and shall be granted up to thirty (30)days leave of absence in conjunction with his holidays. When considered by the Company, approval or rejection is to be given, in writing (with a copy to the Union), within (30) calendar days, and if approved, such approval may not be withdrawn, except by mutual consent of the employee and the Company. Under such leaves the employee will retain and accrue seniority only. Such leave may be extended for additional periods of thirty (30) calendar days when approved by both the Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority will accrue during such extensions. Any employee hereunder, on leave of absence, engaged ingainful employment, without prior written permission, from both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority, and his name will be stricken from the Seniority List, and he will no longer be considered as an employee of the .Company. Any employee requesting leave of absence for compassionate reasons shall not be unreasonably denied. If a regular employee for certified health reasons is unable to perform the work in his regular job, he will be re-classified according to his seniority and capability to perform work in another classification if it exists within the Company. The employee must provide a valid medical opinion of his physical and/or mental ability to perform the new job in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement as it relates to Company required medical examination. When an employee within the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement receives leave of absence, in writing, with a copy to the Union, to take a position within the Company which is beyond the sphere of the bargaining unit, he may retain his seniority for a maximum of ninety calendar days within the bargaining unit. The starting date of such an appointment shall be posted in the terminal. Notice be given to the Union, in writing, prior to the employee leaving the bargaining unit for any period of time. During this leave of absence such employee shall continue to be covered by the Health and Welfare and Pension Plan as provided in this Agreement. Employees who have been granted such a leave of absence must remain a member of the Union and be covered under all benefits of the Collective Agreement, but shall not perform any duties covered by the bargaining unit. In such appointments seniority shall be a consideration. The successful appointee shall not have the right to hire and fire during the ninety day leave of absence. Not later than on the ninetieth (90th) calendar day of this period, the employee must exercise his seniority rights by returning to his former unit or relinquish all such seniority rights. Should the employee return or be returned to the bargaining unit for any reason, he must remain within the unit for a minimum period of one hundredand twenty (I 20) calendar days prior to exercising such privilege again. Section Meal Period The employee shall, except by mutual agreement between the Parties hereto, take at least one continuous period for meals of not less than thirty (301minutes nor more than one hour in any one day. Wherever reasonably possible, meal periods will be thirty minutes. Further, no employee shall be required to take a thirty (30) minute meal period before he has been on duty four and one-half 1/21 hours or after starting he has been on duty six (6) hours. However, any employee directed by the Company to stay with or operate equipment during his meal period will be paid at the regular rate of Where an employee is requiredto work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutiesin of two (2) hours overtime, he shall be entitled to paid time off for the equivalent purpose of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as eating at the equivalent end of the employee's call-his regular except in guarantee providing he a situation where interruption of work is not receiving from practical, inwhich event the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and the Company shall supply adequate transportation to a hospital period may be staggered or doctor and thence his residencepostponed. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall Said meal periodshall be paid by at the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee applicable overtime rate of pay as provided in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee Article Section of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etcthis Agreement., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he shall Within each terminal the Company will post and maintain Seniority Listings. Such up-to-date listings will be paid posted as of April 1st and October 1st of each year. Copies of current lists will be provided to the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day Local Union and the Company shall supply adequate transportation Labour Relations Department. Any employee wishing to a hospital or doctor protest his seniority date must do so by formally reducing his protest to writing and thence submitting same to his residence. Should supervisor and the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee Union within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee days of the bonding requirement. If posting of the proper notice is givenSeniority List on which his name first appears.
(a) When work available will not support a full-time crew on regular shifts, the junior regular employees not laid off may be placed on a "Call as Required" basis and not subject to the regular shift provision as outlined in Section of this Agreement. The number of employees that may be subject to this "Call as Required"provision shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the employees in the terminal. Any employee who has been on lack of work layoff for twelve (12) months or more shall be allowed thirty (30) days removed from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to Seniority Lists and will be paid by terminated from the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deductedemploy. The Company shall pay be under no further obligation to such employee, except in the case where the layoff is a direct result of a labour dispute involving another company, or when the employee has accrued five (5) years or more seniority in which case seniority will be carried for an additional twelve (12) months and termination of employment will be effective at the expiration of eighteen (18) months for those employees. Employees recalled to work following a layoff shall be informed by Single Registered Mail and will be allowed seven (7) consecutive days from receipt or attempted delivery date to report for work. The Company shall be kept informed in writing of any changes of address or telephone number. Regular employees leaving not on "Call as Required"shall, if they receive less than five (5) shifts in a week due to lack of work, be offered work on additional established shifts, if available, on their sixth (6th) or seventh (7th) day of straight time. Section Termination of Employment Seniority, once established, for an employee shall be forfeited and his employment terminated under the service I conditions;
I. if he voluntarily quits Section Overtime and Work
(a) Shift overtime shall be allocated wherever possible on the basis of seniority in a voluntary manner provided the man is capable of doing the job. However, upon reaching the bottom of the Companylist with respect to seniority, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidaysthe junior employees shall be required to work the overtime. No employee shall be required to work overtime in excess of four (4) hours per week. employees will not be used for the purposeof depriving regular employees of their regular hours of work on their regular shifts. If a regular employee is informed before his quitting time that there is no work available for him on his next shift, etcthere shall be no part-time employee worked on his shift on that day he is laid off. This principal may be advanced on a daily basis. Every effort shall be made to give an employee two (2) hours notice when overtime is required., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an Any employee meets with an accident after starting who has been on lack of work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he lay-off for six months or more shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving removed from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no further obligation to such employee, except in the case where a hospital lay-off is a direct result of a labour dispute involving another company or doctor and thence his residencewhen the employee has accrued five (5) years or more seniority in which case seniority will be carried for twelve 2) months. Should Section Leave of Absence When the requirements of the Company's services will permit any employee hereunder upon written application to the Company require any with a copy of said application to the Union, may if approved by the Company, be granted a leave of absence in writing (with a copy to the Union) for a period of thirty (30) calendar days. Upon six (6) months prior notification an employee may request every three (3) years and may be granted up to give thirty days leave of absence in conjunction with his holidays. When considered by the Company approval or rejection is to be given in writing with a surety bondcopy to the Union, within thirty calendar days, and if approved such approval may not be withdrawn except by mutual consent of the employee and the Company. Under such leaves the employee will retain and accrue seniority only. Such leave may be extended for additional periods of thirty calendar days when approved by both the Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority will accrue during such extensions. Any employee hereunder on leave of absence engaged in gainful employment without prior written permission from both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority and his name will be stricken from the seniority list and he will no longer be considered as an employee of the Company. If an employee, employed in a classification requiring a drivers license, suffers the revocation of his drivers license, he will be re-classified, provided he is capable and work is available and such work will not result in the bumping of regular employees. If such employee cannot be re-classified, the premium involved Company may grant a leave of absence to such an employee who has suffered a revocation of his drivers license of up to nine (9) months duration in writing with a copy to the Union. The employee may only take advantage of this section once while in the employ of the Company. Any employee requesting leave of absence for compassionate reasons shall not be paid by unreasonably denied such request. If a regular employee for certified health reasons is unable to perform the work in his regular job, he will be re-classified according to his seniority and capability to perform work in another classification if it exists within the Company. The primary obligation employee must provide a valid medical opinion of his physical and/or mental ability to procure perform the bond shall be on new job in accordance with the Companyprovisions of this Agreement as it relates to Company required medical examinations. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for When an employee within thirty (30) daysthe bargaining unit covered by this Agreement receives leave of absence in writing with a copy to the Union, they must so notify to take a position within the Company which is beyond the sphere of the bargaining unit, he may retain his seniority for a maximum of ninety calendar days within the bargaining unit. The starting date of such an appointment shall be posted in the terminal. Notice shall be given to the Union in writing prior to the employee leaving the bargaining unit for any period of time. During this leave of absence such employee shall continue to be covered by the Health and Welfare and the Pension Plan as provided in writingthis Agreement. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee Employees who have been granted such a leave of absence must remain a member of the bonding requirementUnion and be covered under all benefits of the Collective Agreement, but shall not perform any duties covered by the bargaining unit. If In such appointments seniority shall be a consideration. The successful appointee shall not have the proper notice is givenright to hire and fire during the ninety day leave of absence. Not later than on the ninetieth calendar day of this period, the employee shall must exercise his seniority rights by returning to his former unit or relinquish all such seniority rights. Should the employee return or be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought returned to the attention bargaining unit for any reason, he must remain within the unit for a minimum period of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay one hundred and twenty calendar days prior to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etcexercising such privilege again., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Master Freight and Cartage Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting Any dependent contractor or company driver who has been on lack of work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he for six months (9or shall be paid removed the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no obligation to a hospital such dependent contractor. Section of When the requirements of the Company's services will permit any dependent contractor or doctor and thence his residence. Should company driver hereunder upon written application to the Company require any employee with a copy of said application to give a surety bondthe Union, the premium involved shall be paid may if approved by the Company, be granted a leave of absence in writing (with a copy to the Union) for a period of (30) calendar days. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If When considered by the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for approval or rejection is to be given in writing with a bond for an employee copy to the Union, within thirty (30) calendar days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee and if approved such approval may not be except by mutual consent of the bonding requirementdependent contractor and the Company. If Under such leaves the proper notice is given, the employee shall dependent contractor will and accrue seniority Such leave may be allowed thirty extended for additional periods of (30) calendar days from when approved by both the date Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority accrue during such extensions. Any dependent contractorand company driver hereunder on leave of such notice to make absence engaged in employment without prior permission both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his own bonding arrangementseniority, standard only on said bond to and his name will be paid by stricken the seniority list, and he will no longer be considered as dependent contractorof the Company. A standard premium shall If a dependent contractor or company driver, employed in a classification requiring a drivers suffers the revocation of his drivers license, he be re-classified, provided he is capableand work is available and such work will not result in the premium paid by bumping of regular dependent contractors and company drivers. If such dependent contractor cannot be re-classified, the Company for bonds applicable may grant a leave of absence to all other such an dependent contractor who has suffered a revocation of its employees his drivers license of up to twelve (12) duration in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If writing with a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought copy to the attention Union. The dependent may only take advantage of this section once while in the employ of the Company. Shortages Any dependent contractor and company driver requesting leave of absence for compassionatereasons shall not be unreasonably denied such request. When an dependent contractor within the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement receives leave of absence in excess writing with a copy to the Union, to take a position within the Company which is beyond the sphere of fifty dollars the bargaining unit, he may retain his seniority for a maximum of ninety ($50.0090) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deductedcalendar days within the bargaining unit. The Company starting date of such an appointment shall pay be posted in the terminal. Notice shall be given to employees the Union in writing prior to the dependent contractor leaving the service bargaining unit for any period of time. During this leave of absence such dependent contractor shall continue to be covered by the Health and Welfare as provided in this Agreement. Dependent contractors and company drivers who have been granted such a leave of must remain a member of Union and be covered under all benefits of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible Collective Agreement but not perform any duties covered by the bargaining The successful shall not have the to and during ninety (90) day leave of absence. Not later than on ninetieth (90) day of this period, the following pay daydependent contractor must exercise his seniority rights by returning to his or relinquish all such seniority rights. In all cases where Should the dependent contractor return or be returned to bargaining unit for any reason, he must remain unit for a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice period of one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days prior to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearrangedexercising such privilege again.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Cartage Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutiesThe Company shall, he twice each calender year (March and September open up all shifts for bid. Such bid shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift by seniority order, and shall be defined as for the equivalent duration of the bid period. Such bids may be betweenthe above dates if the Company suffers a change of operationsor due to a schedule change. Where there is a temporary absence of an employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board , for that day reasons other than vacation, on a regular shift, and the Company shall supply adequate transportation to a hospital is advised in writing by the employee or his doctor and thence his residence. Should that the absence will be in excess of fifteen (15) consecutiveworking days, or whereby fifteen (15) consecutiveworking days of absence have occurred, the Company require any will then post this shift for bid as a temporary absence. There shall be only one movement allowed to fill such temporary vacancy. When the absent employee returns to give a surety bondwork, the premium involved shall be paid employeeswho changed positiondue to the bidding processcreated by the Companywill returnto the position held prior to the bidding process. The primary obligation to procure the bond Vacancies will be posted for seven (7) days for bids. Seniority shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange prevail for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) daysshift preferential, they must so notify new jobs or vacancies provided the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each weekqualified. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday job bumping privileges, except in the case of senior employees being displaced on their shifts by a layoff or Friday is a holidayshift discontinuance, the Employer will issue senior employees may exercise their seniority over junior employees and be placed on a shift of their choice. The senior employees may only exercise this preference once in each case of layoff or shift discontinuance. In the cheque on Wednesdayevent the or shift discontinuance is for a period of less than thirty (30) calendar days, the employees affected must resume their normal shifts as work becomes available. Minor shortages will be paid However, if the following pay layoff or shift discontinuance is for a period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars thirty ($50.0030) will calendar days, the shift openings shall be paid immediatelyconsidered new jobs as they become available, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay and subject to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation posting and General Holidays, etc., bidding as soon as possible but not later than the following pay dayprovided herein. In all cases where a bids referred to in this Section, the Company rearranges any items in will designate the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to successful bidder or bidders except when the employee must is on vacation or on days off or otherwise prevented from bidding, and when he returns he will be given with an explanation as opportunity to why bid. If senior bidders are not assigned, the pay was rearrangedreasons thereto will be given to senior employees. Seniority shall be branch wide for all employees.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an Where a full-time employee meets elects to transfer to part-time status he will be allowed to do so,will be credit in his seniority for his on part-time and full-time bases, and will be to the rate of pay, upongood and proper cause being shown. Where two or morefull-time have entered on a basis the day, and are listed on the full-time seniority the same seniority date, any preferenceto be accorded on the basis of seniority will be with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutiesreference to their respective lengths of continuous with the Company on both full-time and part-timebases, he shall the employee the longest service being preference in the decision. Where the length of on part-time of two or more employees is equal, any preferenceto be paid accorded on the equivalent basis of what he would have earned had he completed normal shiftseniority will be decided with reference to their ages, the older man being given preference. A normal shift shall Full-time deemed to be defined as senior part-timeemployees. When reducingforces, employees covered by the equivalent of this Agreement qualifications to the requiredwork will be retained. In the event of a of the employee's call-in guarantee work force, the employee displaced either directly ofany job or result of "bumping", will given t (ability) the his Inorder that his may allow him to the he has been regularly posted, the term being In Iof Where are bythe Company, the will be given the to demonstrate The Company shall discretion The and the Local will bethe last persons and the persons the event a reduction within the unit, the Company will apply the principle "last on providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and qualified to the available work. When recallingemployees, the Company shall supply adequate transportation recallthem In order tothat in they laid providingthey have the necessary to a hospital or doctor and thence his residencethe work. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid Where qualifications are disputed by the Company, the employee will be given the opportunity to demonstrate his ability. The primary obligation to procure Company shall exercise its discretion reasonably There will be no lay-off effected where the bond employee and the Union have not been notifiedthree (3) working days in advance of the taking effect. A copy of the lay-off Notice shall be on the Company. If posted in a conspicuous place by the Company at the time of issue. Such Notice shall be posted only in the terminal effected. No Notice of lay-off will have force or effect that does not include the wording spelled out in Letter of UnderstandingB attached to this Agreement. order allow a employee to register with the Unemploymentinsurance Commission the Company will issue a completed Record of Employment (▇▇▇) within seven calendar days of the day the lay-off takes effect. the event of a reduction of the work force, the employee displaced either directly or as a result of "bumping",who electsto accept a lay-off, will be returnedto the work force by recall or by a successful bid for a bulletined vacant position. The employee who accepts a lay-off forfeits any bumping rights triggered by the reductions. In the case of staff reductions, regular employees will have the right to employment as part-time employees and such not effect their recall rights under the terms ofthis Agreement. Regular employees electing part-time work will be compensated at regular scheduled rates of pay for time worked, and will be to early and late finish times on a part-time shift. The forty hours of pay guarantee provisionswill not apply during the reduction periodof Section if an employee elects part-timework. Established positions will not be discontinuedfor the purpose of avoiding forty-hour pay guarantee, or to employ regular employees as part-time help. permanent and vacancies in permanent positions, known to be of morethan thirty (30)calendar days duration will be bulletined for seven calendar days. Within the seven (7)days, the senior qualified applicant will be required to fill such position. A copy of each bulletinwill be furnished the Chief ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within ▇▇. Newly-createdtemporary positions, and newly-createdtemporary vacancies in permanent positions, known to be of thirty (3030)or fewer days' duration will be bulletined for three (3) days, they must so notify at the employee end of which period the senior qualified applicant will be awarded the position. The successful applicantwill be given three (3)days' advance notice in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee writing of the bonding requirementabolishment of the temporary position or the end of the temporary vacancy where the bulletin did not specify commencement and termination dates. If At the proper notice is givenend of the Notice periodthe employee will be returned directly to the position he occupied prior to the temporary posting, which position will not be discontinued or bulletined in the employee shall be allowed thirty interim except as a temporary vacancy. A position that remains vacant for longer than (30) days from the date of such notice will be deemed to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid have been discontinued. Where qualifications are disputed by the Company. A standard premium shall be , the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees employee will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, given the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought opportunity to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducteddemonstrate his ability. The Company shall pay exercise its discretion reasonably. The employee who is absent from due to employees leaving an injury or condition for which lost time is compensable under Workplace Safety Insurance (formerly the service of Workers' Compensation Act), or other illness or disability, or is absent on vacation or with leave, will be entitled to bid for any bulletined vacant position. Where he is the Companysenior qualified applicant he will be the position, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in which position will be deemed to be temporarily vacant until the employee's pay cheque a clear notice return to full duties. An employee who temporarily fills the positionwill be returned directly to the position he occupied prior to the temporary posting, which position not be discontinued or bulletined in the Interim, except as a temporary vacancy. An employee must who is absent from work for any reason set above in this Section will be given with an explanation as subject to why bumping and will have bumping rights under staff reductions. The position intowhich the pay was rearrangedemployee bumps will be deemed to be temporarily vacant until he returns to full duties.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an Any employee meets with an accident after starting who has been on lack of work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he lay-off for one (1) year or more shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving removed from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no further obligation to such employee, except in the case where a hospital lay-off is a direct result of a labour dispute involving another company, or doctor and thence his residencewhen the employee has accrued five (5) years or more seniority in which case seniority will be carried for eighteen (18) months. Should Section Leave of Absence When the requirements of the Company's services will permit any employee hereunder upon written application to the Company require any employee with a copy of said application to give a surety bondthe Union, the premium involved shall be paid may if approved by the Company, be granted a leave of absence in writing (with a copy to the Union) for a period of thirty (30) calendar days. The primary obligation Upon six (6) months prior notification an employee may request every three (3) years and may be granted up to procure the bond shall be on the Companythirty (30) days leave of absence in conjunction with his holidays. If When considered by the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for approval or rejection is to be given, in writing, with a bond for an employee copy to the Union, within thirty (30) calendar days, they must so notify and if approved such approval may not be withdrawn, except by mutual consent of the employee in writingand the Company. Failure to so notify shall relieve Under such leaves the employee will retain and accrue seniority only. Such leave may be extended for additional periods of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) calendar days when approved by both the Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority will accrue during such extensions. Any employee hereunder on leave of absence engaged in gainful employment without prior written permission from both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority, and his name will be stricken from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangementseniority list, standard only on said bond to and he will no longer be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available considered as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention an employee of the Company. Shortages If an employee, employed in excess a classification requiring a drivers license, suffers the revocation of fifty dollars ($50.00) his drivers license, he will be paid immediatelyre-classified, provided he is capable and work is available and such work will not result in the bumping of regular employees. If such employee cannot be re-classified, the Company may grant a leave of absence to such an employee who has suffered a revocation of his drivers license of up to twelve (12) months duration, in writing, with proper tax already deducteda copy to the Union. The Company shall pay to employees leaving employee may only take advantage of this section once while in the service employ of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc. Any employee requesting leave of absence for compassionate reasons shall not be unreasonably denied such request., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Memorandum of Agreement
SECTION. If All questions, disputes and controversies arising under this Agreement or any supplement hereto shall be adjusted and settled within the terms and conditions as set forth in this Agreement in the manner provided by this Article, unless expressly provided in this Agreement. The procedure for such adjustment and settlement shall be as follows: Any grievance of an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he shall first be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day taken up between such employee and the Company shall supply adequate transportation Supervisor. However, such employees will be entitled to be accompanied by a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty or Union Representative. Time limit to institute grievance: Termination or layoff Ten (10) days. All others Thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee Failing settlement under Step such grievance shall be allowed thirty taken up between the Company Supervisor and a Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ or Local Union Representative. Step must be completed within ten (3010) calendar days from the date completion of Step Failing settlement under Step such notice grievance and any question, dispute or controversy that is not of a kind that is subject to make Steps and the grieving party shall reduce his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond grievance to writing and it will be paid by referred to and taken up between the Secretary or other Bargaining Representative of the Union and the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid 's Representative authorized by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention an Officer of the Company. Shortages Such written notice and meeting must take place within ten (I0) calendar days from the completion of Step. Failing settlement under Step the grievance shall be taken up in excess a presentation to a Grievance Board, hereinafter referred to as "The Board," consisting of fifty dollars two ($50.002) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Union Representatives selected by the Union and two (2) Company shall pay to employees leaving the service Representatives appointed in writing by an Officer of the Company. All Members of this Board shall have been duly appointed and so authorized, all wages owed them including earned vacation that any settlement arrived at by this Board on a specific grievance shall be final and General Holidaysbinding. Except by written mutual agreement between the Union and the Company providing for an extension of time, etc., as soon as possible but not later than Step must be completed within ten (IO) calendar days from the following pay day. completion of Step In all cases where a Company rearranges any items such Grievance Procedures, the Union Representative shall act in the employee's pay cheque capacity of Chairman of the meetings and the Company Representative shall act in the capacity of Recording Secretary. All copies of all Minutes shall be signed and dated by both the Union and the Company. Section Failing settlement under the Steps of the Grievance Procedure, the matter will be referred to an agreed upon neutral person to act as an arbitrator who will meet with the parties to hear both sides of the case. Failing to agree upon a clear notice neutral person, the Department of Labour will be requested to appoint a neutral arbitrator. The Arbitrator shall be required to hand down his decision within fourteen (14) calendar days following completion of the hearing and his decision shall be final and binding on the two parties to the employee must dispute. The cost of the Arbitrator will be given with an explanation as to why borne equally by the pay was rearrangedUnion and the Company.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets The Company will grant leave of absence to employees who are appointed or elected to Union Office for their term of office. The em who obtains this leave of absence shall return to the Company within thirty (3 ) calendar days after completion of his term of employment with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying the Union. The Company will grant leave of absence to employees who are elected as representatives to attend Union meetings and Union conventions or as members of any negotiating committee of CANADA in order that they may carry out his duties, he shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent their duties on behalf of the employee's callUnion. The Company will grant leave of absence to employees to permit them to improve their education at a recognized educational institution as a full-in guarantee providing he time student for a period not to exceed one (1) year, provided the education is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board job related. The employee who obtains this leave of absence shall report for that day and work to the Company within thirty (30) calendar days of the completion of his educational training. The Company agrees to continue past practice and give consideration to employees requiring extended leaves of absence for special circumstances. Seniority shall supply adequate transportation accumulate during leave of absence under this section. order for the employer to replace the employee with a hospital or doctor competent substitute, it is agreed that before the employee receives his leave of absence, as set forth in clauses a), and thence his residence. Should above, the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, will be given due notice in writing; in the premium involved shall be paid by case of a) twenty (20) calendar days; in the Companycase of five (5) calendar days; and in the case of twenty (20) calendar days. The primary obligation to procure Section Employees who have been in the bond shall be on the Company. If continuous employ of the Company for thirty (30) calendar are eligible for Funeral Leave not exceeding three (3) working days, upon the death of a Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, Son, Daughter, Brother, Sister, Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, Stepfather, Stepmother, Legal Guardian, Grandparent, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days▇▇▇▇▇, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the employee ▇▇▇▇, Brother-in-law, Sister-in-law, Son and Daughter-in-law and Grandparents-in-law Such Funeral Leave shall be allowed thirty (30) days from paid for at the date employee's regular job rate of such notice to make pay for his own bonding arrangementregular daily work schedule. Employees may be granted additional leave of absence, standard only on said bond without pay, if it is necessary to be paid by the Companyaway for more than three (3) working days. A standard premium shall Funeral Leave and any additional leave of absence must be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid approved by the employee's supervisor. If a Company institutes a bonding systemFor the purpose of this section, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques common-law relationships shall be made available treated as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to if married provided the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.has been in a relationship for more than twelve (12) months. !
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an Any employee meets with an accident after starting who has been on lack of work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he lay-off for six months or more shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving removed from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no further obligation to such employee, except in the case where a hospital lay-off is a direct result of a dispute involving another company or doctor and thence his residencewhen the employee has accrued five years or more seniority in which case seniority will be carried for twelve 2)months. Should Section Leave of Absence When the requirements of the Company's services will permit any employee hereunder upon written application to the Company require any employee with a copy of said application to give a surety bondthe Union, the premium involved shall be paid may if by the Company, be granted a leave of absence in writing (with a copy to the for a period of thirty calendar days. The primary obligation Upon six months prior notification an employee may request every three (3)years and may be granted up to procure thirty days leave of absence in conjunction his holidays. When considered by the bond Company approval or rejection is to be given in writing with a copy to the Union, within thirty calendar days, and if approved such approval may not be withdrawn except by mutual consent of the employee and the Company. Under such leaves the employee will and accrue seniority only. Such leave may be extended for additional periods of thirty (30) calendar days when approved by both the Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority will accrue during such extensions. Any employee hereunder on leave of absence engaged in gainful employment without prior written permission from both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority and his name will be on stricken from the seniority list and he will no longer be considered as an employee of the Company. If an employee, employed in a classification requiring a drivers license, suffers the revocation of his drivers license, he be re-classified, provided he is capable and work is available and such work will not result in the bumping of regular employees. If such employee cannot be the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for may grant a bond for leave of absence to such an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee who has suffered a revocation of his drivers license of up to nine months duration in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If with a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought copy to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deductedUnion. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service employee may only take advantage of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items this section once while in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.employ of the
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he Each employe covered by the provision of this Agreement shall be paid considered by a carrier to have met the equivalent requirements of what he would have earned had he completed normal shiftthe Agreement unless and such camer is advised to the contrary in writing by the organization. A normal shift The organization will notify the in writing by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, or by personal delivery evidenced by receipt, or any employe who it is alleged has failed to comply with the terms of this Agreement and who the organization therefore claims is not entitled to continue in employment subject to the Rules and Working Conditions Agreement. The form of notice to be used shall be defined as agreed by the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day individual railroad and the Company organization involved and the form shall supply adequate transportation to a hospital or doctor and thence his residencemake provisions for specifying the reasons for the allegation of noncompliance. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bondUpon receipt of such notice, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) dayscamer will, they must ten calendar days of such receipt, so notify the employee employe concerned in writingwriting by Registered or certified mail, Return Receipt Requested, or by personal delivery evidenced by receipt. Failure Copy of such notice to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee employe shall be allowed thirty (30) given the organization. An employe so notified who disputes the fact that he has failed to comply with the terms of this Agreement, shall within a period of ten calendar days from the date of receipt of such notice notice, request carrier in writing by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, or by personal delivery evidenced by receipt, to make his own bonding arrangementaccord him a hearing. Upon receipt of such request the carrier shall set a date for hearing which shall be held within ten calendar days of the date of receipt of request therefor. Notice of the date set for hearing shall be promptly given the employe in writing with copy to the organization, standard only on said bond to be paid by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, or personal delivery evidenced receipt. A representative of the organization shall attend and participate in the hearing. The receipt by the Companycarrier of a request for a hearing shall operate to stay action on the termination of employment until the hearing is held and the decision of the carrier is rendered. A standard premium In the event the employe concerned does not request a hearing as provided herein, the carrier shall proceed to terminate his seniority and employment under the Rules and Working Conditions Agreement not later than thirty calendar days from receipt of the above described notice from the organization, the carrier and the organization agree otherwise in writing. The camer shall determine on the basis of the evidence, produced at the hearing whether or not the employe has complied with the terms of this Agreement and shall render a decision within twenty calendar days from the date that the hearing is closed and the employe and the organization shall be promptly advised thereof in writing by Registered or Certified mail, Return Receipt Requested. If the premium paid decision is that the employe has not complied with the terms of this Agreement, his seniority and employment under the Rules and Working Agreement shall be terminated within twenty calendar days of the date of said decision except as hereinafter provided or unless the carrier and the organization agree otherwise in writing. If the decision is not satisfactory to the employe or to the organization, it may be appealed in writing, by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, directly to the highest officer of the carrier designated to handle appeals under this Agreement. Such appeals must be received by such officer within ten calendar days of the date of decision appealed from and shall operate to stay action on the termination of seniority and employment, until the decision of appeal is rendered. The carrier shall promptly notify the other party in writing of any such appeal, by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested. The decision on such appeal shall be rendered within twenty calendar days of the date the notice of appeal in received, and the employe and the organization shall be properly advised thereof in writing by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested If the decision of such appeal is that the employe bas not complied with the terms of this Agreement, his seniority and employment under the Rules and Working Conditions Agreement shall be terminated within twenty calendar days of the date of said decision unless selection of a neutral is requested as provided below, or unless the carrier and the organization agree other wise in writing. The decision on appeal shall be final and binding unless within ten calendar days from the date of the decision the organization or the employe involved request the selection of a neutral person to decide the dispute as provided in Section below. Any request for the selection of a neutral person as provided in Section below shall operate to stay action on the termination of seniority and employment until not more than ten calendar days from the date decision is rendered by the Company for bonds applicable neutral person. If within ten calendar days after the date of a decision on appeal by the highest officer of the carrier designated to all other handle appeals under this Agreement organization of its employees the employe involved requests such highest officer in similar classificationswriting by Registered or Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested that a neutral be appointed to decide the dispute, a neutral person to act as sole arbitrator to decide the dispute shall be selected by the highest officer of the carrier designated to handle appeals under this Agreement or his designated representative, the Chief Executive of the organization of his designated representative, and the employe involved or his representative. If they are to agree the selection of a neutral person any one of then may request the Chairman of the National Mediation Board in writing to appoint such neutral. The carrier, the organization and the employe involved shall have the right to appear and present evidence at a hearing before such neutral arbitrator. Any excess is to be paid decision by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques such neutral arbitrator shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There within thirty calendar days from the date of receipt of the request for his appointment and shall be no than one week's pay held backfinal and binding upon the parties. When Thursday or Friday is a holidayThe carrier, the Employer will issue employe and the cheque on Wednesdayorganization shall be promptly advised thereof in writing by or Certified mail, Return Receipt Requested. Minor shortages will be paid If the following pay period when brought to the attention position of the Company. Shortages employe is sustained, the fees, salary and expenses of the neutral arbitrator shall be borne in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will equal shares by the carrier and the organization: if the employe’s position is not sustained, such fees, salary and expense shall be paid immediatelyborne in equal shares by the carrier, with proper tax already deductedthe organization and the employe. The Company shall pay to employees leaving time periods specified in this section may be extended in individual cases by written agreement between the service of carrier and the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etcorganization., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting Any dependent contractor who has been on lack of work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he lay-off for six months (6) shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving removed from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no obligation to a hospital such dependent contractor. Section Leave of Absence Bereavement Leave When the requirements of the Company's services will permit any dependent contractor or doctor and thence his residence. Should hereunder upon written application to the Company require any employee to give with a surety bondcopy of said applicationto the Union, the premium involved shall be paid may if approved by the Company, be granted a leave of absence in Writing (with a copy to the Union) for a period of thirty (30) calendar days. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If When considered by the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for approval or rejection is to be given in writing with a bond for an employee copy to the Union, within thirty (30) calendar days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee and if approved such approval may not be withdrawn except by mutual consent of the bonding requirementdependent contractor and the Company. If Under such .leaves the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed dependent contractorwill retain and accrue seniority only. Such leave may beextended for additional periods of thirty (30) calendar days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid when approved by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by both the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees and the Union, in similar classificationswriting, and seniority will accrue during such extensions. Any excess is to dependent contractor on leave of absence engaged in gainful employment without prior written permission both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority, and his name will be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on stricken the seniority list list, and he will not no longer be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available considered as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention an dependent contractor of the Company. Shortages Any dependent contractor requesting leave of absence for compassionate or bereavement reasons shall not be unreasonably denied such request. When a dependent contractor within the bargaining unit covered by this Agreement receives leave of absence in excess writing with a copy to the Union, to a position within the Company which is beyond the sphere of fifty dollars the bargaining unit, he may retain his seniority for a maximum of ninety ($50.0090) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deductedcalendar days within the bargaining unit. The Company starting date of such an appointment shall pay be posted in the terminal. Notice be given to employees the Union in writing prior to the dependent contractor leaving the service bargaining unit for any period of time. During this leave of absence such dependent contractor shall continue to be covered by the Health and Welfare as provided in this Agreement. Dependent contractors who have been granted such a leave of absence must remain a member of the Company, Union and be covered under all wages owed them including earned vacation benefits of the Collective Agreement but shall not perform any duties covered by the bargaining unit. The successful appointee shall not have the right to hire and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not during the ninety (90) day leave of absence. Not later than on the following pay dayninetieth (90) calendar day of this period, the dependent contractor must exercise his seniority rights by returning to his former unit or relinquish all such seniority rights. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in Should the employee's pay cheque a clear notice dependent contractor return or be returned to the employee bargaining unit for any reason, he must be given with an explanation as remain within the unit for a minimum period of one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days prior to why the pay was rearrangedexercising such privilege again.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Master Memorandum of Agreement
SECTION. If It shallbe mandatory that each employee Company who is a member of the Union sign and deliverto the Company an authorization directing the Company to withhold from such employee's earnings, Union Dues, as hereinafterprovided for in this Section. Upon receipt thereof, the Company shall deduct from such employee's earnings on the first pay day in each month, the amount owed to the Union by each such employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating for Union dues, however, should any such employee have no earnings due to him from carrying out his dutieson the first pay day in any month or should such employee's earningsbe lessthanthe amount such employee owes the Union for dues, he then, in that event, the deduction shall be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of made from the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from earnings on the Workers' Compensation Board for that next succeeding pay day and on which his earningsare sufficientto cover the amountof dues the Union by such employee. Before the end of each month, the Company shall supply adequate transportation mail to the Financial Secretaryof the Union a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should cheque payable to the Union for the amount of dues the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved has withheld during such month which shall be paid accompanied by a list, in duplicate, containing the names of the employees and the amount deducted from each employee's earnings. Upon receipt of such cheque and list, said Financial Secretaryof the Union shall sign one copy of such list, acknowledging receipt thereof, and promptly return such signedlistto the Company. The primary obligation to procure As of the bond effective date of this agreement, the Union dues are per month. Such dues shall not be on changed except in accordance with the applicableprovisions of the International Constitution By-laws of the Union, and, in such event, the Financial Secretaryof the Union shall notify the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to , and the amount of monthly dues as so notify changed shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall thereafter be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid deducted by the Company from each such employee's earnings. It shall be mandatory that applicants for bonds applicable membership in the Union, as provided for in Section of this agreement,sign and deliver to the Company an authorization directing the Company to withhold from such employee's earnings the amount specified therein for payment of Initiation Reinstatement Fee. Such amount specified in such authorization shall be withheld from the earnings of such employee in accordance with the provisions of such authorization and shall be transmitted to the Financial Secretary of the Union in the same manner as prescribed in Subsection (A) above with respect to Union dues which are withheldby the Company;and when the full amount of such fee has been withheld such employee's earnings and transmitted to the Union, such authorization shall be null and shallthereafterhave no furtherforceor effect. It is expressly understood and agreed that, upon receipt of proper proof, the Union will refund to the Company, or to the employee involved, any Union dues, Initiation Reinstatement Fees erroneously withheld from an employee's earningsby the Companyand paid to the Union. Section is acknowledged is the of Company to its an efficient location productsto schedules of new and changes in kinds and to be and all other the the terms agreement. transfer, promote, (at or under the terms and conditions of its employees the Pension suspend, or for proper or of work or a by of grievance as herein provided. In and of the foregoing an of a grievance therewith may be filed and processed in similar classifications. Any excess is accordance with the Grievance it being that the or lay Section (continued..) employee who has not completed his probationary period as provided for in Section of this agreementshallnot be subject to be paid by the employee. If a GrievanceProcedure set forthin Section The Company institutes a bonding systemshall have the right to establish, present employees who are on the seniority list will maintain and enforcereasonable and regulationsto assure orderlyplant operations, it being understood and agreed that such rules and regulations shall not be discharged because discriminatoryor applied in a manner whereby an employee would be improperly disciplined or discharged, nor shall such and regulationsbe inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of failure to obtain this agreement. The Company shallmaintain on its boards a bond. All employees will be paid weekly copy of all such rules and pay cheques regulations, including amendments thereto or changes therein, copies of which shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each weekfurnished to the Union. There It is further understood and agreed that the Company, prior to posting, will discuss with the Union amendments to or changes in existing tules and regulations which shall be no than one week's pay held backnot become effective until five (5) regular work days after copies have the Company'sbulletinboards. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, The Union agrees that it will co-operate with the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought Companyby calling to the attention of its members the Company. Shortages in excess necessity of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, complying with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation such and General Holidays, etcregulations., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. Within each branch and/or division the Company will post and maintain seniority listings. Such date listings will be posted as of January and July of each year. Copies of current lists will be provided to the Union. Such lists to state starting date of employee. Section When an employee's employment is terminated by the Company for proper cause or he leaves by his own choice, he will automatically be struck from the seniority list. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him on his own volition obtains a withdrawal card from carrying out his duties, Local he shall be paid struck from the equivalent Company seniority list. In the event that the Company purchases a business or any part thereof, the employees of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift which are covered by a collective agreement with a Local Union of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the seniority of such employees shall be defined as computed from the equivalent date that they respectively first become employees of the employee's callbusiness aforesaid. Section Any employee who has been on lack of work lay-in guarantee providing he is not receiving off for one year or more shall be removed from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no further obligation to such employee, except in the case where a hospital layoff is a direct result of a labour dispute involving another company, or doctor and thence his residencewhen the employee has accrued five years or more seniority in which case seniority will be carried for eighteen months. Should of Absence When the requirements of the Company’s services will permit any employee hereunder upon written application to the Company require any with a copy of said application to the Union, may if approved by the Company, be granted a leave of absence in writing (with a copy to the Union) for a period of thirty calendar days. Upon six months prior notification an employee may request every three (3) years and may be granted up to give thirty days leave of absence in conjunction with his holidays. When considered by the Company approval or rejection is to be given, in writing, with a surety bondcopy to the Union, within thirty calendar days, and if approved such approval may not be withdrawn, except by mutual consent of the employee and the Company. Under such leaves the employee will retain and accrue seniority only. Such leave may be extended for additional periods of thirty (30) calendar days when approved by both the Company and the Union, in writing, and seniority will accrue during such extensions. Any employee hereunder on leave of absence engaged in gainful employment without prior written permission from both the Company and the Union shall forfeit his seniority, and his name will be stricken from the seniority list, and he will no longer be considered as an employee of the Company. A regular employee driver will not be discharged as a result of the first loss of his drivers license during his employment with the Company. In such a case, the premium involved employee will be placed at the bottom of the seniority list, as of that point in time, for work preference and layoff and when he regains his license he will resume his former seniority position. Any employee requesting leave of absence for compassionate reasons shall not be paid by unreasonably denied such request. If a regular employee for certified health reasons is unable to perform the work in his regular job, he will be re-classified according to his seniority and capability to perform work in another classification if it exists within the Company. The primary obligation employee must provide a valid medical opinion of his physical and/or mental ability to procure perform the bond shall be on new job in accordance with the Companyprovisions of this Agreement as it relates to Company required medical examinations. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for When an employee within thirty (30) daysthe bargaining unit covered by this Agreement receives leave of absence, they must so notify in writing with a copy to the Union, to take a position within the Company which is beyond the sphere of the bargaining unit, he may retain his seniority for a maximum of ninety calendar days within the bargaining unit. The starting date of such an appointment shall be posted in the terminal. Notice shall be given to the Union, in writing, prior to the employee leaving the bargaining unit for any period of time. During this leave of absence such employee shall continue to be covered by the Health and Welfare and the Pension Plan as provided in writingthis Agreement. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee Employees who have been granted such a leave of absence must remain a member of the bonding requirementUnion and be covered under all benefits of the Collective Agreement, but shall not perform any duties covered by the bargaining unit. If In such appointments seniority shall be a consideration. The successful appointee shall not have the proper notice is givenright to hire and fire during the ninety (90) day leave of absence. Not later than on the ninetieth calendar day of this period, the employee shall must exercise his seniority rights by returning to his former unit or relinquish all such seniority rights. Should the employee return or be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought returned to the attention bargaining unit for any reason, he must remain within the unit for a minimum period of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay one hundred and twenty calendar days prior to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etcexercising such privilege again., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If All questions, disputes and controversies arising under this Agreement or any supplement hereto shall be adjusted and settled within the terms and conditions as set forth in this Agreement in the manner provided by this Article, unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement. The procedure for such adjustment and settlement shall be as follows: Any grievance of an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he shall first be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day taken up between such employee and the Company shall supply adequate transportation Supervisor. However, such employees will be entitled to be by a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty or Union Representative. Time limit to institute grievance: Termination or layoff Ten days. All others Thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee Failing settlement under Step I,such grievance shall be allowed thirty (30taken up between the Company Supervisor and a Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ or Local Union Representative. Step must be completed within ten O) calendar days from the date completion of Step Failing settlement under Step such notice grievance and any question, dispute or controversy that is not of a kind that is subject to make Steps ▇▇▇▇ the grieving party shall reduce his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond grievance to writing and it will be paid by referred to and taken up between the Secretary or other Bargaining Representative of the Union and the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid 's Representative authorized by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention an Officer of the Company. Shortages Such written notice and meeting must take place within ten calendar days from the completion of Step. Failing settlement under Step the grievance shall be taken up in excess a presentation to a Grievance Board, hereinafter referred to as "The Board," consisting of fifty dollars two ($50.002) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Union Representatives selected by the Union and two (2) Company shall pay to employees leaving the service Representatives appointed in writing by an of the Company. All Members of this Board shall have been duly appointed and so authorized, all wages owed them including earned vacation that any settlement arrived at by this Board on a specific grievance shall be final and General Holidaysbinding. Except by written mutual agreement between the Union and the Company providing for an extension of time, etc., as soon as possible but not later than Step must be completed within ten (IO) calendar days from the following pay day. of Step In all cases where a Company rearranges any items such Grievance Procedures, the Union Representative shall act in the employee's pay cheque capacity of Chairman of the meetings and the Company Representative shall act in the capacity of Secretary. All copies of all Minutes shall be signed and dated by both the Union and the Company. Section Failing settlement under the Steps of the Grievance Procedure, the matter will be referred to an agreed upon neutral person to act as an arbitrator who will meet with the parties to hear both sides of the case. Failing to agree upon a clear notice neutral person, the Department of Labour will be requested to appoint a neutral arbitrator. The Arbitrator shall be required to hand down his decision within fourteen (14) calendar days following completion of the hearing and his decision shall be final and binding on the two parties to the employee must dispute. The cost of the Arbitrator will be given with an explanation as to why borne equally by the pay was rearrangedUnion and the Company.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If In the event of a reduction of the work force, the employee displaced either directly or as a result of "bumping", who elects to accept a lay-off, will be returned to the work force by recall or by a successful bid for a bulletined vacant position. The employee who accepts a lay-off forfeits any bumping rights triggered by the staff reductions. In the case of staff reductions, regular employees will have the right to employment as part-time employees and such status will not effect their recall rights under the terms of this Agreement. Regular employees electing part-time work will be compensated at their regular scheduled rates of pay for time worked, and will be entitled to early start and late finish times on a part-time shift. The forty (40) hours of pay guarantee provisions will not apply during the staff- reduction period of Section if an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutieselects part-timework. Established positions will not be discontinued for the purpose of avoiding the forty-hour pay guarantee, he shall or to employ regular employees as part-time help. Newly-created permanent positions, and newly-createdvacancies in permanent positions, known to be paid of more than thirty (30) calendar days duration will be bulletined for three (3) days. Within the equivalent three (3) days, the senior qualified applicant will be required to fillsuch position. copy of what he would have earned had he completed normal shifteach bulletin will be furnished the Chief ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. A normal Newly-created temporary positions and newly-createdtemporary vacancies in permanent positions, (other than for day shift shall vacation relief), known to be defined as of ▇▇▇▇ than fifteen 5) days but less than thirty-one (31) days' duration will be bulletined for three (3) days, at the equivalent end of which period the senior qualified applicant will be awarded the position. Where practicable, the successful applicant will be given three (3) days' advance notice in writing of the employee's call-abolishment of the temporary position or the end of the temporary vacancy where the bulletin did not specify commencement and termination dates. the end of the Notice period the employee will be returned directly to the position he occupied prior to the temporary posting, which position not be discontinued or bulletined in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and the Company shall supply adequate transportation to interim except as a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Companytemporary vacancy. The primary obligation to procure parties agree that the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company Union ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange and the Company may meet and agree to streamline this process on a case-by- case basis. position that remains vacant for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed longer than thirty (30) days from the date of such notice will be deemed to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid have been discontinued. Where qualifications are disputed by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue employee be given the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought opportunity to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducteddemonstrate his ability. The Company shall pay exercise its discretion bIy The employee who is absent from work due to employees leaving an injury or condition for which lost time is compensable under the service of Workplace Safety Insurance Act (formerly the CompanyWorkers' Compensation Act), all wages owed them including earned or other illness or disability, or is absent on vacation and General Holidaysor with leave, etc.will be entitled to bid for any bulletinedvacant position. Where he is the senior qualified applicant he will be awarded the position, as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in which position will be deemed to be temporarily vacant until the employee's pay cheque a clear notice return to full duties. An employee who temporarily fills the position will be returned directly to the position he occupied prior to the temporary posting, which position will not be discontinued or bulletined in the interim, except as a temporary vacancy. An employee must who is absent from work for any reason set above in this Section will be given with an explanation as to why bumping and will have normal bumping rights under staff reductions. The position into which the pay was rearrangedemployee bumps will be deemed to be temporarily vacant until he returns to full duties.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out In the application of this Union Shop Agreement, any employe in the service on the effective date of this Agreement who was not a of the union representing his dutiescraft or class and will make affidavit he was a member of a bona fide or recognized religious group on the effective date of this Agreement having scruples against joining a union, and any individual thereafter employed who will make affidavit he shall be paid was a member of a bona fide or recognized religious group on the equivalent of what date first employed having scruples against joining a union, will, if he would otherwise he required to join a under the Union Shop Agreement, be deemed to have earned had met the requirements of the Union Shop Agreement if he completed normal shiftagrees to and does pay initiation fees, periodic dues and assessments to the organization representing his craft or class signatory hereto. A normal shift Section This Agreement shall be defined become effective on the same date as the equivalent rules of the employee's call-collective agreement of which it is a part. This Agreement shall remain in guarantee providing he is not receiving effect until modified or changed in accordance with the provisions of the Railway labor Act, as amended. BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYES In accordance with the provisions of Section of the Union Shop Agreement in effect on this property, the following agreement by and between the Burlington Northern Railroad Company, hereinafter referred to as the “Company” and its employes who are represented the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, hereinafterreferred to as the “Brotherhood,” will be made effective January Subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth the Company will deduct from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day wages of employes initiation fees, and assessments (excluding fines and penalties) whenever applicable, and union dues, monthly, all of which may be uniformly required as a condition of the employes acquiring or retaining membership in the Brotherhood; and upon their written and unrevoked individual authorizations. The officer of the Brotherhood designated by the General Chairman will notify in writing the Disbursement Accounting of the Company shall supply adequate transportation of any special assessments or changes in amounts of fees or dues, such notice to a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should be in the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee hands of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed Director-Disbursement Accounting not less than thirty (30) days from prior to the date beginning of the payroll period in which such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess deduction is to be paid made effective. Each individual employe subject to the agreement with the Brotherhood who desires such payroll deduction will fill out and sign two (2) copies of the “wage deduction authorization” which will be furnished by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding systemBrotherhood, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought mail both copies to the attention of General Chairman. The General Chairman shall mail the original to the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc’s Director-Disbursement Accounting., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he The Union shall be paid have the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as the equivalent of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and the Company shall supply adequate transportation right to appoint a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Company. The primary obligation to procure the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company Chief Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange and not more than three additional Shop Stewards from among its members employed by the Company, provided that an additional Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ may be appointed by the Union for each fifty addi- tional employees employed by the Company. The Chief Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and other Shop Stewards shall be selected or appointed so that no more than one of the group shall be from any particular shop department. The Chief Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, together with two of the Shop Stewards as hereinabove provided for, shall con- stitute the Shop Committee. In the absence of a bond Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the Union shall have the right to appoint a tem- porary Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. The Shop Stewards shall not be discriminated against for performing their duties as hereinabove provided. The Union agrees to furnish the Company, in writing, the names of the Shop Stewards and Chief Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, and will notify the Company of any changes made in these offices as they occur from time to time. The Company will not be required to any Union representative where written notification of any such Union representative’s appointment has not first been given to the Company. For the purpose of definition, a grievance is a difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or an employee within thirty (30) daysor group of employees covered by this agreement, they must so notify with respect to the employee meaning, inter- pretation, application or alleged violation of the terms of this agreement. Should a grievance arise between the Union and the Company, the complaining or aggrieved party shall serve notice, in writing. Failure , to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) other not later than five working days from the date the event occurs which gives rise to the grievance and an ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ effort shall be made to settle the differences involved as hereinafter provided for, beginning with Step 3 of this Subsection Should a grievance arise between an employee, or a group of employees, and the Company, the aggriev- ed employee or employees, as the case may be, shall present such grievance or grievances immediately and, except in cases involving an employee or employees returning from an excused absence or vacation, not later than five working days from the date the event oc- curs which gives rise to the grievance. An employee or employees returning from an excused absence or vacation shall present a grievance or grievances involv- ing an event which occurred less than five working days prior to the start of such notice period of absence or dur- ing such absence immediately and, in any event, not later than three work days following the date of their return to make his own bonding arrangementwork. An ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ effort shall be made to set- tle the differences between an employee or group of employees and the Company in the following Step Any grievance or complaint shall be presented for settlement to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, standard only in writing, on said bond ap- propriate forms furnished by the Company and approved by the Union, signed by the aggriev- ed employee or employees, Any employee or group of employees having a grievance may present it to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ either directly or with or through a Shop ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, provided any ad- justment made shall not be inconsistent with the terms of this agreement. If the problem or difference is not settled satisfactorily within working days after being presented to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the grievance shall be presented within two working days thereafter to be paid pro- cessed in Step No settlement made in this step of the procedure shall have any binding effect upon future grievances involving the same subject. Step In case the complaint is not settled satisfac- torily in Step the Shop Committee will then take up the written complaint either with the General ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ or other representative, or representatives, designated by the Company. A standard premium The appropriate Company representative shall investigate and render his decision in writing within three working days after the grievance or dispute is presented in Step If the decision rendered is not satisfactory, or if the appropriate Company representative fails to provide an answer within the time specified, the grievance or dispute shall, within seven working days thereafter, be presented to be processed as provided for in Step Step Complaints or disputes not settled as hereinabove provided shall be taken up by a representative of the premium paid Union and/or the full Shop Committee with the Chief Executive of the Company or his designated represen- tatives and such additional reasonable number of representatives as either party may desire. The appropriate Company representatives shall investigate and report, in writing, the Company decision within five working days following the day on which the grievance is discussed in this step of the grievance pro- cedure. If the written decision in this step of the procedure is not satisfactory, the grievance or dispute shall, upon the written request of the Company or the Union, be submitted to arbitration in accordance with the arbitration provisions hereinafter set forth, provided such request is made within fifteen working days after the Chief Executive of the Company or his designated representatives, as the case may be, renders his written decision as pro- vided for in this step of the procedure. In the event that the Company answer provided for herein shall not be given within the time specified, the fifteen day period referred to for commencing arbitration shall begin as of the day on which the answer became due. Failure by the Union to appeal a grievance deci- sion in accordance with the provisions set forth above will result in the grievance involved being considered dropped or settled in accordance with the last decision rendered by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of or its employees designated represen- tative or representatives. It is understood and agreed that the time limits set forth in similar classificationsSubsection hereof may be extended by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. Any excess is settlement arrived at between the Company and the Union in Steps 2 or 3 of the grievance procedure set forth above shall be reduced to be paid writing in duplicate and signed by the employeeCompany and the Union, and each party shall receive a copy. If a Company institutes a bonding systemThe Shop Stewards provided for and mentioned in this Section shall have and possess power and authority to act for and bind the Union only in connection with those functions, present employees who are on rights, obligations and matters provided for in this agreement. They shall not have, or be deemed to have, any other authority to act for or bind the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bondUnion. All decisions and settlements arrived at between represen- tatives of the Company and representative or representatives of the Union shall be final and binding upon the employee or employees involved. The Company will be paid weekly responsible for scheduling meetings on grievances in Steps 2 and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, 3 of the Employer procedure set forth in Subsection above and representatives of the Union will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought make all requests for meetings to the attention properly designated representative of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) The Shop Stewards will be paid immediately, for time lost from their regular work shift in discussing a specific grievance with the proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service management representatives in their respective steps of the Companygrievance procedure. that the Shop Stewards have regular work to perform for the Company and that their grievance activity should be held to a minimum during their working hours, all wages owed them including earned vacation the Shop Stewards shall notify their respective foremen before leaving their assigned work. It is understood and General Holidaysagreed that this privilege shall not be abused and that Shop Stewards shall respect re- quests by their foremen to remain in their work area to complete a specific job. On resuming their regular work, etcthe Shop Stewards shall report back to their respective foremen., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If It is agreed that upon the written request of the Union a list will be supplied by the Company setting out the name and starting date with the Company of each regular employee. However, such request shall not be granted more than once per calendar quarter. The Company will advise the Union once each month of changes to the said list. In the case where an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutieshas been transferred by the Company to a supervisoryposition, he shall it is hereby agreed that reinstatement can be paid made within the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined as bargaining unit, provided the equivalent employee returns to the bargaining unit within six (6)months of the employee's call-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and the Company shall supply adequate transportation transfer to a hospital or doctor supervisoryposition, and thence provided that the supervisory worker reinstated in the bargaining unit must return to the job held at the time of his residence. Should the Company require any employee promotion to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by the Companysupervisory position. The primary obligation employee will not accumulate seniority while a member of management. Employees who have been transferred to procure a supervisory position prior to the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee date of ratification of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee Memorandum of Agreement shall be allowed thirty have six (306) days months from the date of such notice ratification to make return to the bargaining unit, provided that the supervisory worker reinstated in the bargaining unit must return to the job held at the time of his own bonding arrangementpromotion to a supervisory position. The employee will not accumulate seniority while a member of management. When increasing the work force, standard only on said bond laid-off employees shall be recalled in the reverse order to which they were laid off, that is, the last person laid off will be paid the recalled, provided they are capable of performing the work required. Notification of recall of those who cannot be contacted directly, shall be by registeredmail to the last address which the employee shall have registered with the Company and the employee shall return or respond within ten (10) days, otherwise seniority shall be lost. Employees requested to work during a shutdown shall be determined by the Companymost senior qualified employee capable of performing the work amongst the employees who sign up to work. A standard premium In selecting employees any job modifications work restrictions shall be considered. to the premium paid by shutdown the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by shall meet with the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees Union Committee and review what work will be paid weekly done during the shutdown and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention names of the Companyemployees selected to work. Shortages in excess Employees must be capable of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving performing the service physical demands of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation work required during shutdown and General Holidays, etcmust have a valid certificate for any equipment that they may be required to operate., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. The Company will post and maintain seniority Such up-to date listings be posted as and July of each year. Copies of current lists will be provided to the Union. Such to state date of employee. When an employee's is by Company for proper cause or he leaves by his own choice, he will automatically be struck from the seniority list. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, on own volition obtains a withdrawal card Local he shall be paid struck From the equivalent Company seniority list. Section in the event that the Company purchases a or any part thereof, the employees of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift which are covered by a Collective Agreement with a Local Union of the International of the seniority of such employees shall be defined as computed the equivalent date that they respectively first become employees of the employee's callbusiness aforesaid. Any employee who has been on lack of work lay-in guarantee providing he is not receiving from off for one year or more shall be removed the Workers' Compensation Board for that day seniority list and the Company shall supply adequate transportation be under no further obligation to such employee except in the case where a hospital lay-off is a direct result of a labour dispute involving another company or doctor when laid-off employee has accrued five (5) years or more seniority in which case seniority will be carried for eighteen 8) months. bargaining unit. In such appointments shall be a consideration. The appointee shall not have the right to hire and thence his residenceduring ninety (90) day leave of absence. Should Not later than on the Company require any employee to give a surety bondninetieth (90) day of this period, the premium involved shall employee must exercise his seniority rights by returning to his former unit or relinquish all such seniority rights. the employee or be paid by returned to the Companybargaining unit for any reason, he must remain within the unit for a period of one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days prior to exercising privilege again. The primary obligation to procure employee shall, except by agreement between the bond shall be on the Company. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange parties hereto, take at least one (I) continuous period for a bond for an employee within at not less than thirty (30) daysminutes or than one hour in any one day. Wherever reasonably possible, they must so notify the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall meal periods will be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangementminutes. Further, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium no employee shall be required to take more than a thirty (30) minute period, except between the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other hours of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly a.m. and pay cheques No employee shall be made available as soon as possible but no later compelled to take more than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.one
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets Persons moving under the conditions of Article Sections or will dovetail their seniority with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his duties, he shall be paid persons already employed at the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shiftterminal to which they moved. A normal shift shall be defined as In the equivalent of event the employee's call-Company establishes a new Terminal or Operation at a different location within a town or city in guarantee providing he is not receiving from which the Workers' Compensation Board for that day already has a Terminal or the Company and the Company shall supply adequate transportation will meet and establish procedures which will the seniority of employees at the original and new terminals. Such procedures will be reduced to a hospital or doctor and thence his residence. Should If the Company require acquires by way of purchase or in any employee to give a surety bondother manner the business or undertaking of any other employer and such operations merged, the premium involved shall seniority of active employees will be paid by the Company. The primary obligation including employees who are off work due to procure the bond shall be on the Companysickness or injury. If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) daysacquiring the business or does not require the employees the merger, they must so notify layoff will commence at the employee in writing. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee bottom of the bonding requirementdovetailed active seniority list, and such employees will remain on the active seniority list for the purpose of recall. In the event that any of the Companies by the merger have off employees to the merger, the seniority of those employees on layoff will be dovetailed. Such employees will be on the inactive list. If the proper notice is merged Company subsequently additional employees will be given, subject to recall provisions of Article to those laid off employees on the active seniority list, then to those employees on the inactive seniority list in with their seniority and qualifications. If and when an employee who is on the inactive list is and reports for work in with this Article his seniority will with the seniority of the active employees. In the event that the Sections in the opinion of either party fail to provide adequate of seniority at the time of purchase and merger, then the of the employees in the shall be allowed thirty (30) days from by agreement between the date of such notice successor Company and the Local Union or Unions If mutual is not the conditions outlined in Article Section and will apply. The Company agrees to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond to be paid by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid by the Company for bonds applicable to all other of its employees in similar classifications. Any excess is to be paid by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding system, present employees who are on leave of absence and all future employees of the Union an indefinite leave of absence to work for the Teamsters Union and accumulating seniority list with the Company. Such leave of absence revocable upon (72) hours notice by the employee, It is to the mutual advantage of the Company and the employee that employees shall not operate which not in a safe operating condition and not equipped with the safety appliances required by It shall be the duty of employees to promptly in writing to the Company all defects in equipment. It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Company to maintain all vehicles in a safe operating in accordance with the Department of Transport’sRegulations. The maintenance of equipment in sound operating condition is not only a function, but a responsibility of Management. The determination in respect to the condition of equipment shall rest with the senior qualified supervisor. It shall not be a violation of this Agreement where employees refuse to equipment which is not in a safe operating condition or is not equipped with the safety appliances required by law. for a will not be discharged because of failure held for damage while towing or a vehicle if instructed to obtain a bonddo by Management, employee is negligent. power units will be weatherproof and have windshield wipers, Windshield and installed and kept in condition. In extreme temperatures where heaters do not adequately heat the cab, the Company will the necessary alteration to retainadequate heat. All employees new power unitswill have hand braking control valves installed at time of delivery. The Company must keep speedometers in proper order and accurate. Equipment shall be supplied for the driver on which to report defects in equipment with sufficient that one will be paid weekly retained by the driver and pay cheques so that the office of the Company have a of this on file. the Service Report is made out by the driver it shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is by the driver and a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention representative of the Company. Shortages in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) Maintenance personnel will be paid immediately, with proper tax already deducted. The Company shall pay to employees leaving the service of the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etcsign this report when repair work is completed., as soon as possible but not later than the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SECTION. If an employee meets with an accident after starting work incapacitating him from carrying out his dutiesLeaves of absence, he shall without pay, without loss of seniority, will be paid the equivalent of what he would have earned had he completed normal shift. A normal shift shall be defined granted to employees appointed as the equivalent delegates to attend conventions of the employee's call-Union, upon written request the Union for such leaves, which leaves will be limited to two (2) employees on no more than two (2) occasions in guarantee providing he is not receiving from a twelve (12) month period. Such notices must be provided by the Workers' Compensation Board for that day and National Head Office two weeks prior to the Company shall supply adequate transportation date of the event. Leaves of absence, without pay, without loss of seniority, to attend labour schools will be granted to a hospital or doctor limited number of employees upon sufficient prior notice being given to the Company, and thence his residence. Should provided that such leaves do not unreasonably interfere with the Company require any employee to give a surety bond, the premium involved shall be paid by operation of the Company. The primary obligation T e Company agrees to procure pay into a special fund three and a half cents ($0.035) hour per employee for all compensated hours for the bond shall be on the Companypurpose of providing paid education leave (PEL). If the Company ▇▇▇▇▇▇ arrange paid education will be for a bond for an employee within thirty (30) days, they must so notify the purpose of upgrading the employee skills in writingall aspects of trade union functions. Failure to so notify shall relieve the employee of the bonding requirement. If the proper notice is given, the employee shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to make his own bonding arrangement, standard only on said bond Such monies are to be paid on a quarterly basis into a trust fund established by the Company. A standard premium shall be the premium paid National Union CAW, and sent by the Company to the following address: Paid Education Leave Program Placer Court Willowdale, Ontario the The Company will provide the Union Local with a statement of contributions at the times of remittance in which it will set out the number of hours by each employee in the bargaining unit in each week of the contribution base period. The Company further agrees that members of the bargaining unit, selected by the Union to attend such courses, will be granted leaves of absence without pay for bonds applicable twenty (20) days' class time, plus travel time where necessary, said leaves of absence to be intermittent over a twelve (12) month period from the first day of an employee’s initial leave. An employee on said leaves of absence will continue to accrue seniority and be entitled to all other benefits during such leaves. Leaves of its employees absence provided for in similar classifications. Any excess is this Section are in addition to the leaves of absence for the purpose of attending labor schools provided for in Section Leaves of absence, without pay, without loss of seniority, will be paid granted Union Local Officers and representatives for the conduct of Union business, upon sufficient prior notice being given to the Company, by the employee. If a Company institutes a bonding systemUnion Local President, present employees who are on and provided that such leaves do not unreasonably interfere with the seniority list will not be discharged because of failure to obtain a bond. All employees will be paid weekly and pay cheques shall be made available as soon as possible but no later than Thursday noon each week. There shall be no than one week's pay held back. When Thursday or Friday is a holiday, the Employer will issue the cheque on Wednesday. Minor shortages will be paid the following pay period when brought to the attention operations of the Company. Shortages It is agreed that the absence of three (3) employees from the Toronto terminal, and the absence of one (1) employee from each of the remaining terminals, do not unreasonably interfere with the operations of the Company. It is further agreed that one (1) week’s notice is sufficient, but that the notice period may be shorter, at the sole discretion of the Company. Employees will not be dismissed, disciplined or penalized for absenting themselves from the work place in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be paid immediately, accordance with proper tax already deductedthis Section. The Company shall agrees to pay into a special fund one cent ($0.01) per hour per employee for all compensated hours for the purpose of contributing to employees leaving the service Social Justice Fund. The fund is a registered non-profit charity that contributes to Canadian and international non-partisan, non-governmental relief and development organizations, Such monies are to be paid on a quarterly basis into the fund established by its Board of Directors and sent by the Company, all wages owed them including earned vacation and General Holidays, etc., as soon as possible but not later than Company to the following pay day. In all cases where a Company rearranges any items in the employee's pay cheque a clear notice to the employee must be given with an explanation as to why the pay was rearranged.address: Social Justice Fund Placer Court Willowdale, Ontario
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Agreement