HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from the Employer, the Local Union may, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified Journeymen. The Employer shall have the right to select five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from any source provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLE
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HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification The Employer agrees that whenever employees covered by this Agreement are required, the Employer shall call the Union office of the Local having jurisdiction. The Employer shall, where possible, give the Union advance information as to the employment requirements in order that the Union may make its members available. Only Union members having confirmation of dispatch from the EmployerLocal Union, to be given to the Employer by the employee at time of hire, or sent to the Employer by electronic transmission prior to the employee being hired, shall be hired, providing the Local Union may, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified Journeymencan supply same. The Employer shall have the right to select five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from any source provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local Union must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; referred, otherwise such employees member will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided name request one member from the cause out-of-work list of the Local Union in every four employees hired. This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-in-four" basis for such refusal shall not be unreasonablethe duration of the job. The employment of straws shall be determined and agreed upon at the Conference by the Employer and the Local having territorial jurisdiction over the area of the job. Members supplied by the Local Union shall must be given dispatched within forty-eight (48) hourshours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays such notice to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which given during the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. Union's normal office When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers the Employer may be hired obtain employees elsewhere, subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. Article The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start restart any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup breakup, work windows specified by a third party, or prolonged weather or other shutdown beyond the control of the Employer, provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen employees shall be engaged in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. Article ARTICLE
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HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. At the Employer, Conference the may request and the Local Union mayshall Up ten percent (10%)of the Principal Operators excluding mechanics, required for job from other Locals of the Union and each such Principal Operator shall be entitled to perform the work for which he is cleared. Up one-half of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence at the Start of the Right-of-way operations and balance of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment not prior to the Conferenceof the Pipe Gang operations. Up to fifty percent (50%) of the mechanics. utility welders and lubrication and service unit operators required far job who members of another Local of the Union, provide This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-to-one"basis for the Employer with a list duration of available qualified Journeymenthe job. The Employer shall have the right to select five name request by classification up to fifty percent (2550%) of the required Journeymen from any source provided such employees who are members of the Local Union. The Those employees hired under provision of and above shall be included in the percent This ratio shall be maintained on a one-to-one basis far the duration of the job. Thereafter the Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) notify the Local Union of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees all his employee requirements and shall be supplied only hire those who have been cleared for work by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonableUnion having jurisdiction. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, hours exclusive of Saturdays, . Sundays, . and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time lime or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of All employees required by the Employer which shall be in a referral slip from the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify for identification purposes unless the Local Union clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile or other means of written communication. Subject to the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity shall for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have condition the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject is n s of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure any the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLEot
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Samples: negotheque.travail.gc.ca
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. The Employer agrees that whenever employees covered by this Agreement are required, the Employer, Employer shall call the Union office of the Local having jurisdiction. The following definition of Permanent Yard applies to this Article only. Permanent Yard means where the Company establishes and maintains an oftice and yard for a period of at least one (1) year. In those areas where the Employer has a permanent yard the Employer may request and the Local Union may, shall clear previous employees who have worked for the Company for at least six months and who have been employed by the Employer within six (6) months prior to commencementon the Conferencejob, provide the first which shall be the Xxxxxxx, provided such members have maintained membershipin good standingand are registered as unemployed with the Local Union. In those areas where the Employer with does not have a list of available qualified Journeymen. The permanent yard the Employer may request and the Local Union shall have the right clear up to select five twenty percent (2520%) of the required Journeymen his employee requirements from any source provided such previous employees who are members of the Local Union and have been employed by the Employer within six (6) months prior to commencement on the job, provided such members have maintained membership in good standing and are registered as unemployed with the Local Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees shall be Members supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio Union at the start of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local job must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight within (48) hourshours of request; after the job has started within twenty-four (24) hours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays such notice to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which given during the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are availableUnion’s normal oftice hours. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers the Employer may be hired obtain employees elsewhere, subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLE
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Samples: Agreement for Canada
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt of Job Notification from the Employer, the Local Union may, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified Journeymen. The Employer shall have the right to select twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from any source provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by the Local The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within forty-eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of the Union when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, completed a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall be engaged in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLE
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HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. At the Employer, Conferencethe Employer may request and the Local Union mayshall clear: Up to ten percent (10%)of the Principal Operators excluding mechanics, required for the job from other of the Union and each such Principal Operator shall be entitled to perform only the work for which he is cleared. Up to one-half of those Principal Operatorscleared under this provision may commence employment at the start of the Right-of-way operations and the balance of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment not prior to the Conference, provide start of the Employer with a list of available qualified JourneymenPipe Gang operations. The Employer shall have the right Up to select five percent (25%50%)of the mechanics, utility welders and lubrication and serviceunit operators required for the job who have employed in the previous twelve (12) of the required Journeymen from any source provided such employees months and who are members of another Local of the Union. The This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-to-one" basis for the duration of the job. Previousemployees who members of the Local Union and who have been employed by the within twelve (12) months prior to commencement on the job. Thereafter the Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) notify the Local Union of the required Journeymen from the list all of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees his employee requirements and shall be supplied only hire those who have been cleared for work by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonableUnion having jurisdiction. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, hours exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to holidaysto supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within forty-eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion Ail employees shall be in of employees required by the Employer which a referral slip from the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify for identification purposes unless the Local Union otherwise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or other means of written communication. Subject to the names terms and conditions of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified membersAgreement, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start refuse any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and referral provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all cause of such back welding. This condition refusal is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement stated and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLEunreasonable.
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Samples: Operating Engineers
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. At the Employer, Conference the Employer may request and the Local Union mayshall clear: Up to ten percent of the Principal Operators excluding mechanics, required for the job from other Locals of the Union and each such Principal Operator shall be entitled to perform only the work for which he is cleared. Up to one-half of those Principal Operators cleared under this provi- sion may commence employment at the start of the Right-of-way operations and the balance of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment not prior to the Conference, provide start of the Employer with a list of available qualified JourneymenPipe Gang operations. The Employer shall have the right Up to select five fifty percent (2550%) of the mechanics, utility welders and lubrication and service unit operators required Journeymen from any source provided such for the job who have been employed in the previous twelve (12) months and who are members of another Local of the Union. This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-to-one" basis for the duration of the job. Previous employees who are members of the UnionLocal Union and who have been employed by the within twelve months prior to on the job. The Thereafter the Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) notify the Local Union of the required Journeymen from the list all of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees his employee requirements and shall be supplied only hire those who have been cleared for work by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonableUnion having jurisdiction. The Local Union shall be given forty-forty - eight (48) hours, hours exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within forty - eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion All employees shall be in possession of employees required by the Employer which a referral slip from the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify for iden - tification purposes unless the Local Union other - wise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, or other means of written communication. Subject to the names terms and conditions of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified membersAgreement, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start refuse any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and referral provided the laid-off employees are available cause for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It refusal is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement stated and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLEunreasonable.
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Samples: negotech.labour.gc.ca
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from The Employer agrees that whenever employees covered by this Agreement are required, the Employer, Employer shall call the Union office of the Local having jurisdiction. The following definition of Permanent Yard applies to this Article only. Yard means where the Company establishes and maintains an office and yard for a period of at least one (I) year. In those areas where the Employer has a permanent yard the Employer may request and the Local Union may, shall clear previous employees who have worked for the Company for at least six months and who have been employed by the Employer within six (6) months prior to commencement on the Conferencejob, provide the first which shall be the Xxxxxxx, provided such members have maintained membership in good standing and are registered as unemployed with the Local Union. In those areas where the Employer with does not have a list of available qualified Journeymen. The permanent yard the Employer may request and the Local Union shall have the right clear up to select five twenty percent (2520%) of the required Journeymen his employee requirements from any source provided such previous employees who are members of the Local Union and have been employed by the Employer within six (6) months prior to commencement on the job, provided such members have maintained membership in good standing and are registered as unemployed with the Local Union. The It is hereby agreed that a request by the Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) for mobility of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees key men shall be discussed at a job conference. Such request shall not be unreasonably denied. Members supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio Union at the start of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local job must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given within forty-eight (48) hourshours of request; after the job has started within twenty-four (24) hours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays such notice to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which given during the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are availableUnion’s normal office hours. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers the Employer may be hired obtain employees elsewhere, subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLE
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Samples: Master Agreement
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification of the Job from the Employer, the Local Union mayshall, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified Journeymenand Helpers. The Employer shall have the right to select twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen employees from any source source, provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five fifty percent (2550%) of the remainder of the required Journeymen from employees the list of qualified members supplied by the Local The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All Prior to commencing employment, all employees shall be in possession of a referral slip from the Local Union for identification purposes unless the Local Union otherwise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or other means of communication. employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to acceptableto the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall Employees suppliedby the LocalUnion must be given dispatched within forty-eight (48) hourshours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, Sundays and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is providedholidays. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of the Union when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to subjectto paragraph The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified membersprovide employees, the Employer will provide every opportunity for employment to any employee person who has successfully completed, completed a welding pipeline training course and is approved by a local joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that and such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with paragraph The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have shallhave the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-laid off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall be engaged in accordance with paragraph ARTICLE WORKING I RULES The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of the pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition It is recognized that because of the specialized nature of distribution pipeline construction work, it is necessary that the Employer have available and qualified employees, and that both Parties shall cooperate to the Welder Xxxxxxxend that all of the employees hired hereunder shall be capable of performing such work in a competent manner. On distribution mains, main extensions, revisions thereto and upon all other work associated with distribution the Welders diameter of the pipe being installed shall not be the governing factor in determining the number of Union personnel involved. Rather the daily rate of progress shall determine the additional personnel to be employed to augment the minimum requirement of one Journeyman. Each base of operations shall employ one and their Helpers, the Employer shall one Helper and a minimum of one Helper for additional three Journeymen. no event will a Welder-Journeyman be required to employ weld steel pipe without a minimum assistant. The Employer shall notify the Local Business Manager havingjurisdiction prior to commencement of five (5) Journeymen the work in his area on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman distribution pipelines. This notice to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are usedwriting, a Welder Helper shall copy of which can be assigned sent to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conferenceinternational Union Representative if so required. There shall be no inequitable minimum inequitableminimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between At the Employer and of the UnionEmployer, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the UnionUnion provided the employee is capable and qualified to perform the work. No employee's hourly rate shall be lowered during the shift under these provisions, and if an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate of pay for the full shift. Subject to the employee being capable and to the work, no employee's rate shall be lowered under these provisions, and if an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate of pay for !he day. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may employermay be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay pay, he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may beginfull day. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall be not later than Thursday of each week, unless the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; under such conditions, pay day may be once every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for chequesfor wages due them at the time of lay-off or discharge must he be delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or dischargeas soon as possible, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less but no later than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) of the Employer's scheduled working days of the date of lay-off or dischargefollowing such termination. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the The Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where camps are not provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions provisions shall he be agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he be negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide shallprovide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be a reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment equipment, or to work or continue to work under unsafe conditions, and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. A copy of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly each month. , The Employer shall provide a safety hatrain suits, gloveswhen required, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, safetyhats at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items same on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months Employees be permitted a minute work break for each worked during working hours provided that this will done in such a manner as will least interfere with the Employer shall supply salt tabletscontinuous performance of the work. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, ,reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, The Employer provideparking at the warehouse marshallingpoint. During cold weather operation the Employer shall will provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that dayvehicle starting. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover provide portable sanitary facilitiesfor all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLEemployees where necessary.
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Samples: Pipeline Agreement for Canada
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt of Job Notification from the Employer, the Local Union may, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified Journeymen. The Employer shall have the right to select twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from any source provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five fifty percent (2550%) of the remainder of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by the Local The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Employees supplied by the Local Union shall must be given dispatched within forty-eight (48) hours, exclusive hours of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is providedrequest. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining 'twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of the Union when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to Art. The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, completed a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with Art. The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall be engaged in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of restArt. ARTICLE
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Samples: negotech.labour.gc.ca
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from At the Employer, Conference the Employer may request and the Local Union mayshall clear: Up to ten percent of the Principal Operators excluding mechanics, required for the job from other Locals of the Union and each such Principal Operator shall be entitled to perform only the work for which he is cleared. Up to one-half of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment at the start of the Right-of-way operations and the balance of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment not prior to the Conference, provide start of the Employer with a list of available qualified JourneymenPipe Gang operations. The Employer shall have the right Up to select five fifty percent (2550%) of the mechanics, utility welders and lubrication and service unit operators required Journeymen from any source provided such for the job who have been employed in the previous twelve (12) months and who are members of another Local of the Union. This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-to-one" basis for the duration of the job. Previous employees who are members of the UnionLocal Union and who have been employed by the Employer within twelve (12) months prior to commencement on the job. The Thereafter the Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) notify the Local Union of the required Journeymen from the list all of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees his employee requirements and shall be supplied only hire those who have been cleared for work by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonableUnion having jurisdiction. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, hours exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within forty-eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion All employees shall be in possession of employees required by the Employer which a referral slip from the Local Union may for identification purposes unless the Local Union otherwise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or other means of written communication. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral provided the cause of such refusal is stated and shall not be unreasonable. If the Local Union is unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. When qualified members of employees in accordance with Article the Union are not availableEmployer may obtain employees elsewhere, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union provisions of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. Article In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified membersprovide employees, the Employer will provide every opportunity for to any employee who has successfully completedcompleted a pipeline Operating Engineers training course, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test andcommittee, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, and the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. Article The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup breakup, provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference Conference, and provided the laid-laid off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen employees shall be engaged in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. Article ARTICLE
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Samples: Master Agreement
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. At the Employer, Re-job Conference the Employer may request and the Local Union mayshall clear. Up to ten percent of the Principal Operators excluding mechanics, required for the job from other Locals of the Union and each such Operator shall be entitled to only the work for he is cleared. Up to one-half of those Principal Operators under this provision may commence employment at the shut of the Right-of-way operations and the balance of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment not prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified Journeymen. The Employer shall have the right to select five percent (25%) start of the Pipe Gang operations. Up to percent of the mechanics, utility welders and lubrication and service unit operators required Journeymen from any source provided such for the job who have employed in the previous twelve (12) and who are members of another Local of the Union. This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-to-one" for the duration of the job. Previous employees who are members of the UnionLocal Union and who have been employed by the Employer within twelve (12) months prior to commencement on the job. The the Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) notify the Local Union of the required Journeymen from the list all of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees his employee requirements and shall be supplied only hire those who have cleared for work by the Local provided that qualified members are availableUnion having jurisdiction. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, hours exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within forty-eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion All shall be in possession of employees required by a slip from the Employer which Union for purposes unless the Local Union may be unable otherwise an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimiletransmission, or other means of written communication. to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members and conditions of when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start refuse any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement stated and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLEunreasonable.
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Samples: negotech.labour.gc.ca
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt of the Job Notification from the Employer, the Local Union mayshall, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified JourneymenJourneymen and Helpers. The Employer shall have the right to select twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen employees from any source source, provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five fifty percent (25%) 50%)of the remainder of the required Journeymen employees from the list of qualified members supplied by the Local The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. Prior to commencingemployment, all employees shall be in possession of a referral slip from the Local Union for identification purposes unless the Local Union otherwise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or other of communication. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Employees supplied by the Local Union shall must be given dispatched within forty-eight (48) hourshours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, Sundays and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is providedholidays. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of the Union when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to paragraph The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified membersprovide employees, the Employer will provide every opportunity for employment to any employee person who has successfully completed, completed a welding pipeline training course and is approved by a local joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that and such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with paragraph The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLEthis
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Samples: United Association Distribution Pipeline Agreement for Canada
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt of the Job Notification from the Employer, the Local Union mayshall, prior to the Conference, provide the Employer with a list of available qualified JourneymenJourneymen and Helpers. The Employer shall have the right to select twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen employees from any source source, provided such employees are members of the Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five fifty percent (25%) 50%)of the remainder of the required Journeymen employees from the list of qualified members supplied by the Local The remainder of the required employees shall be supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. Prior to commencing employment, all employees shall be in possession of a referral slip the Local Union for identification purposes unless the Local Union otherwise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or other means of communication, All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Employees supplied by the Local Union shall must be given dispatched within forty-eight (48) hours48)hours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, Sundays and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is providedholidays. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of the Union when they are available. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers may be hired subject to paragraph The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified membersprovide employees, the Employer will provide every opportunity for employment to any employee person who has successfully completed, completed a welding pipeline training course and is approved by a local joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that and such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with paragraph The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job interruptedjob with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-laid off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall be engaged in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. paragraph ARTICLE
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Samples: negotech.labour.gc.ca
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. The Employer agrees that whenever employeescovered by this the Employer, Employer shall call the Union office of the Local having jurisdiction. The following definition of Permanent Yard applies to Article only. Permanent Yard means where the Company establishes and maintains an office and yard for a period of at least one (1) year. In those areas where the Employer has a permanent yard the Employer may request and the Local Union may, shall clear previous employees who have worked for the Company for at least six months and who been employed by the Employer within six (6) months prior to commencement on the Conferencejob, provide the first which shall be the Xxxxxxx, provided such members have maintained membership in good standing and are registered as unemployed with the Local Union. In those areas where the Employer with does not have a list of available qualified Journeymen. The permanent yard the Employer may quest and the Local Union shall have the right clear up to select five twenty percent (2520%) of the required Journeymen his employeerequirements from any source provided such previous employees who are members of the Local Union and have been employed by the Employer within (6) months prior to commencement on the job, provided such members have maintained membership in good standing and are registered as unemployed with the Local Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) of the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required employees shall be Members supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are availableUnion at the start of the job must be. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; otherwise such employees will not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given within forty-eight (48) hours48)hours of request; after the job has started within twenty-four (24)hours of request, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays such notice to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which given during the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are availableUnion's normal office hours. When qualified members of the Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers the Employer may be hired obtain employees elsewhere, subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLE
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Samples: Agreement for Canada
HIRING PROCEDURE. I Upon receipt Notification from A. With the Employerexception of those regular employees of the Employer who are members in good standing of the Union, as identified at the Re-job Conference and cleared by the Local Union mayfor work the Jurisdictional Boundary of that Local Union, prior the Employer shall hire all employees through the Local Union dispatch In all cases the Local Union dispatch office will be given forty-eight (48) hours Monday through Friday to complete the Conference, provide dispatch and all employees must be in possession of a Union referral slip or Local Union must have provided the Employer with a list confirmation of available qualified Journeymendispatch by electronic transmission prior to his commencement of work which includes equipment move out. The Employer shall have the right to select five percent (25%) of hire the required Journeymen employees from any source provided such employees are among the qualified members of the Local Union. The Employer shall select a further twenty-five percent (25%) of Where the required Journeymen from the list of qualified members supplied by The remainder of the required Local Union has dispatch procedures established such employees shall be provided with a dispatch slip by the Local Union office. All members supplied by the Local provided that qualified members are available. The ratio of employees selected from and supplied by the Local Union shall be maintained throughout the project. All employees supplied by the Local must have had previous pipeline experience and be qualified to perform the work for which they have been requested; , otherwise such employees will shall not be dispatched unless acceptable to the Employer. The Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral prior to dispatch provided the cause for such refusal is stated and shall not be unreasonable. The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided. The portion of employees required by the Employer which the Local Union may be unable to supply as well as the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) required will be members of when they are available. When qualified members of the Local Union are not available, other qualified Journeymen and Helpers employees may be hired elsewhere, subject to The Employer shall, upon request, notify the Local Union of the names of all Journeymen hired under this provision. In the event the Local Union is unable to supply qualified members, the Employer will provide every opportunity for any employee who has successfully completed, a welding training course and is approved by a joint training committee to take a qualification test and, in the event that such employee completes the qualification test, the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union accordance with The Foremen and Job Xxxxxxx are excluded from the provisions of this Article. The Employer shall have the right to retain the original crew once established throughout the territory covered by the job for which the Conference was held. The International Representative will designate the Local Union which will have jurisdiction. The Employer shall have the right to re-start any interrupted job with the same crew laid off for Christmas or Spring breakup provided such shutdown extends no longer than a twenty-one (21) calendar day period or has been a subject of the Conference and provided the laid-off employees are available for such re-start. Any additional and/or replacement Journeymen shall in accordance with WORKING I The Employer shall be the sole judge as to the number of employees required. It is recognized that the work of handling clamps, lining up of pipe and the making of joints is the work of the Union. In addition to the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders and their Helpers, the Employer shall be required to employ a minimum of five (5) Journeymen on jobs pipe is greater than in diameter, four (4) of whom shall used in pipe gang, and the fifth Journeyman to be used either in the pipe gang, bevelling ahead of the pipe gang, in the bending crew, in the tie-in crew, in stress relieving, or in preheating with torches; pipe 14" in diameter or less the Employer shall be to employ two (2) Journeymen other than the Welder Xxxxxxx, the Welders, and their Helpers; provided however, that in the event an inside clamp is being used on pipe in diameter and less, the Employer shall also be required to employ one (1) Helper. If outside clamps are used, a Welder Helper shall be assigned to handle such clamps. On pipelines of 14" in diameter or less, the operation of the bending mandrel and the handling of clamps shall be performed by a Helper. On pipelines of greater than 14" in diameter the handling of clamps and the operation of bending mandrels shall be performed by Journeymen. If any additional employees are needed, they shall be employed as Journeymen or Helpers depending on what work is involved. All tie-in crews shall employ one (1) Non-Welder Journeyman. On small jobs when less than five (5) Welders are employed, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools, at the discretion of the Employer. At the beginning and end of where more than five (5)Welders will be or have been employed, at any given time, the Welder Xxxxxxx will be allowed to work with the tools where it is not a full-time work day task. These provisions may be modified at the Pre- job conference. There shall be no inequitable minimum or maximum amount of work which an employee may be required to perform during the working day and there shall be no restrictions imposed against the use of any type of machinery, tools, or labour saving devices. As mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union, employees may be changed from one classification to another within the jurisdiction of the Union. During emergencies, any employee of the Employer may be assigned to any work, provided, however, that no employee's hourly rate shall be lowered under this provision, and provided further that in the event an employee is assigned to work calling for a higher rate of pay he shall receive such higher rate. Xxxxxxxx bead and hot-pass welders and helpers can be required to weld back on incompleted welds, as long as their wage rate not lowered. Such welders and helpers will paid for the hours received by the pipe gang plus the hours engaged in welding back and there shall be no restriction as to the location where such "welding back" may begin. In back welding weld is performed inside the pipe as a regular procedure, one welder will be selected each day to perform all of such back welding. This condition is not intended to apply to occasional back performed by pipe gang to repair a bead, rectify a "hi-lo'' condition or wall thickness change, The regular payday shall not later than Thursday of each week, the Employer agrees to allow employees to draw on money earned; such conditions, day may be every two weeks. Insofar as job conditions permit, employees shall receive their pay cheques during their regular shift and in any event not later than within twenty (20) minutes of their return to the warehouse following said shift. When employees are laid off or discharged their cheques for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge must he delivered on the same date. If the cheques due to the employee at time of lay- off or discharge are not delivered the date of lay-off or discharge, the employee shall be entitled to waiting time or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, where applicable, for each day up to and including the date upon which the cheques are delivered. The Employer and the Local Union may agree at the Conference that, on jobs with less than one hundred (100) employees, if Employer is unable to deliver the employee's cheque for wages due at the time of lay-off or discharge, the employee will not be eligible for further waiting or reporting time, subsistence allowance, or camp privileges, however, this final cheque must he mailed to the employee's home address two (2) working days of the date of lay-off or discharge. Unless otherwise agreed by the Employer and the Local Union at the Conference, the Employer shall make arrangements in each locality where employees are employed to enable such employees to cash their pay cheques or, where it is impracticable to do so, will provide any employee within twenty-four (24) hours written request with a cheque in the equivalent of subsistence allowance payable. Where are provided in remote areas devoid of normal banking facilities, the Employer shall make reasonable effort to provide cheque cashing facilities, it being understood that where it is impracticable to do so, suitable substitute provi- sions shall he agreed at the Conference. All cheques to he negotiable at par. The Employer shall provide a copy of the "Approved Safety Manual for Pipeline Construction in Canada" issued by the Association to the Job Xxxxxxx and, upon request, to any other employee. The parties hereto shall comply with any governmental occupational health and safety regulations applicable to the work. Any refusal by the employee to work in contravention of such regulations shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and shall not be reason for discharge. After due warning, any refusal by an employee to abide by any applicable regulation of a governmental body having jurisdiction shall be cause for discharge. The parties hereto recognize that employees covered by this Agreement may be exposed to hazardous fumes in the workplace and undertake to make every effort to minimize such exposure. Safety equipment supplied by the Employer must be worn by the employees who are exposed to hazardous fumes. The Employer shall not require any employee to operate unsafe or improperly loaded equipment and an employee may refuse, for valid reasons, to operate such equipment until defects have been remedied. The Job Xxxxxxx shall represent the Union as a member of any Job Safety Committee and he, or another committee member representing one of the Unions, depending upon the nature of the inspection, shall be made freely available by the Employer to accompany any authorized governmental representative on project inspection. of the Minutes of all Job Safety Committee meetings shall be forwarded to the Local Union promptly month. The Employer shall provide a safety hat, gloves, and special protectiveclothing or special safety equipment required by the Workers’ Compensation the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the owner’s requirements, except safety footwear, at no cost to the employee provided the employee returns these items on termination of employment. The Employer shall provide drinking water in approved sanitary containers and paper cups where no running tap water is available. During summer months the Employer shall supply salt tablets. Where the nature and location of the work, as determined at the Conference, are such as to require special clothing for protection from adverse weather elements and such clothing is not normally in the possession of the employee, the Employer shall provide or, at his option, reimburse the cost of such clothing. In the event that any employee does not return the foregoing items supplied to him by the Employer, the Employer shall charge the cost of same to the employee and deduct this cost from any money owing to the employee. In Ontario, the Employer shall provide water flush toilets and wash-up facilities at the yard and, where right-of- way conditions make it practicable and feasible, on the right- of-way near the main pipe gang for the employees' use. Where employees are required to work at locations away from the main pipe gang, the minimum facility will consist of chemical flush toilets. Effective May I, these requirements will apply to all areas covered by this Agreement. On jobs where camps are provided, the Employer shall insure the personal effects of each employee against loss by fire in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) provided an inventory of such personal effects is filed with the Employer. On any day a is used by the Employer to employees to and from their place of work on the or the and/or marshalling point of the Employer, each employee so transported shall receive one hours pay for day. hour is in addition to his regular pay for that day. The Employer shall that each employee required to travel by will be covered by a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)accidental death insurance. In the event that an employee is sued in conjunction with the Employer for any action taken or omitted at the express direction of the Employer, then Employer shall have the right to select legal counsel and shall cover all reasonable expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of a statement of defence on behalf of the employee. The Employer will provide parking at warehouse and/or marshalling point. During cold operation, will provide for vehicle The Employer shall not require any employee to work for periods that do not allow the employee eight consecutive hours of rest in any period of hours. In the event an employee does not receive eight consecutive hours of rest prior to the commencement of his next shift, he shall be paid at the applicable overtime rate until receives at least eight consecutive hours of rest. ARTICLE
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