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ARTICLE 59
PART-TIME EMPLOYEES

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59.10 Vacation Leave

A part-time employee shall earn vacation leave credits for each month in which the employee receives pay for at least twice (2) the number of hours in the employee's normal workweek, at the rate for years of service established in clause 35.02 of this Agreement, prorated and calculated as follows:

(a) when the entitlement is ten (10) hours a month, .250 multiplied by the number of the hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(b) when the entitlement is thirteen point thirty-six (13.36) hours a month, .333 multiplied by the number of the hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(c) when the entitlement is fourteen point seventy-two (14.72) hours a month, .367 multiplied by the number of the hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(d) when the entitlement is fifteen point thirty-six (15.36) hours a month, .383 multiplied by the number of the hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(e) when the entitlement is sixteen point seventy-two (16.72) hours a month, .417 multiplied by the number of the hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(f) when the entitlement is eighteen (18) hours a month, .450 multiplied by the number of hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(g) when the entitlement is twenty (20) hours a month, .500 multiplied by the number of the hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(h) however, a part-time employee who has received or is entitled to receive furlough leave shall have his or her vacation leave credits earned reduced by .083 multiplied by the number of hours in the part-time workweek, beginning in the month in which the twentieth (20^th) anniversary of service occurs until the beginning of the month in which his or her twenty-fifth (25^th) anniversary of service occurs.

ARTICLE 61
PAY ADMINISTRATION

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61.11 Pay Notes (Former Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Employees)

(a) Effective date of transfer or appointment to CBSA, the employee's new rate of pay shall be the step or rate in the B line of the new salary grid, which is closest to, but not less than, the rate of pay received on that day.

(b) Should the employee's salary exceed the maximum of the range or the rate for his/her group and level, the employee's salary shall remain unchanged until such time as the maximum rate of pay for the employee's group and level is equal to, or greater than, the employee's salary.

(c) Effective August 5, 2004, should the employee's salary be within the new salary band in the B line, the employee's new rate of pay shall be the step or the rate of pay in the B line which is closest to, but not less than, the rate of pay received on that day. Furthermore the employee shall be entitled to a lump sum in an annualized amount equivalent to the difference between the value of the economic increase (i.e. 2.25%) and the actual salary increase, to be paid bi-weekly.

(d) Effective August 5, 2004, employees, subject to paragraph b), shall receive a lump sum payment in an annualized amount equivalent to two decimal twenty-five per cent (2.25%) of the employee's rate of pay, to be paid bi-weekly, in lieu of the economic increase.

(e) Effective August 5, 2005, should the employee's salary be within the new salary band or lower or equal to the rate in the C line, the employee's new rate of pay shall be the step or rate in the C line which is closest to, but not less than, the rate of pay received on that day. Furthermore the employee shall be entitled to a lump sum in an annualized amount equivalent to the difference between the value of the economic increase (i.e. 2.4%) and the actual salary increase, to be paid bi-weekly.

(f) Effective August 5, 2005, employees subject to paragraph b) shall receive a lump sum payment in an annualized amount equivalent to two decimal four per cent (2.4%) of the employee's rate of pay, to be paid bi-weekly, in lieu of the economic increase.

(g) Effective August 5, 2006, should the employee's salary be within the new salary band or lower or equal to the rate in the he rate in the D line, the employee's new rate of pay shall be the step or rate in the D line which is closest to, but not less than, the rate of pay received on that day. Furthermore the employee shall be entitled to a lump sum payment in an annualized amount equivalent to the difference between the value of the economic increase (i.e. 2.5%) and the actual salary increase, to be paid bi-weekly.

(h) Effective August 5, 2006, employees who continue to be subject to paragraph d) shall receive a lump sum payment in an annualized amount equivalent to two decimal five per cent (2.5%) of the employee's rate of pay, to be paid bi-weekly, in lieu of the economic increase.

(i) All other provisions of the new collective agreement shall apply.

**ARTICLE 62
COMPENSATORY LEAVE

Exception: This Article does not apply to the SC group.

62.01

(a) All the overtime, travelling time compensated at overtime rates, standby pay, reporting pay, callback pay, and time worked on a designated paid holiday, shall be compensated in cash except where, upon request of an employee and with the approval of the Employer, compensation shall be in equivalent leave with pay.

Notwithstanding the above paragraph, designated paid holidays for FR employees will be compensated in accordance with clause 6.01 of Appendix A.

(b) Compensatory leave may be granted subject to operational requirements and adequate advance notice being provided.

(c) At the request of the employee, and with the approval of the employer, accumulated compensatory leave may be paid out, in whole or in part, once per fiscal year, at the rate in effect at the time of the request.

(d) Compensatory leave earned in a fiscal year, and outstanding as of September 30^th of the next following fiscal year will be paid at the employee's rate of pay on September 30^th.

62.02 Where, in respect of any period of compensatory leave, an employee is granted:

(a) bereavement leave with pay,

or

(b) leave with pay because of illness in the immediate family on production of a medical certificate,

or

(c) sick leave on production of a medical certificate,

the period of compensatory leave so displaced shall either be added to the compensatory leave period, if requested by the employee and approved by the Employer, or reinstated for use at a later date.

**ARTICLE 63
DANGEROUS GOODS

Exception: This does not apply to the GS group.

63.01 An employee certified pursuant to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act and who is assigned the responsibility for packaging and labeling of Dangerous Goods for shipping in accordance with the above Act, shall receive a daily allowance of three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) for each day they are required to package and label Dangerous Goods for shipping, to a maximum of seventy-five dollars ($75) in a month where the employee maintains such certification.

ARTICLE 64
MEDICAL APPOINTMENT FOR PREGNANT EMPLOYEES

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64.01 Up to three decimal seven five (3.75) hours or four (4) hours, where the standard hours of work are forty (40) hours per week, of reasonable time off with pay will be granted to pregnant employees for the purpose of attending routine medical appointments.

ARTICLE 65
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE

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65.04 An employee who intends to request leave or time off under this Article must give notice to the Employer as far in advance as possible but no later than four (4) weeks before the requested period of absence unless, because of unforeseeable circumstances, such notice cannot be given.

**ARTICLE 67
TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES

67.01 If an employee is called back or is required to report to work pursuant to Articles 29, 30, 31, 32, or the Reporting Pay clauses of the appropriate Appendix,

(a) on a designated paid holiday which is not the employee's scheduled day of work,

or

(b) on the employee's day of rest,

or

(c) after the employee has completed his or her work for the day and has left his or her place of work,

or

(d) for overtime worked which is not contiguous to the employee's scheduled hours of work,

and reports for work, the employee shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred as follows:

(e) other than when required by the Employer to use a vehicle of the Employer for transportation to a work location other than the employee's normal place of work, time spent by the employee reporting to work or returning to his or her residence shall not constitute time worked.

**ARTICLE 68
AGREEMENT REOPENER

68.01 This Agreement may be amended by mutual consent.

**ARTICLE 69
DURATION

69.01 The provisions of this Agreement will expire on August 4, 2007.

69.02 Unless otherwise expressly stipulated, the provisions of this Agreement shall become effective on the date it is agreed.

APPENDIX A

FIREFIGHTERS GROUP -
SPECIFIC PROVISIONS AND
RATES OF PAY

General

Interpretation and Definitions:

(c) "With respect to the application of clause 52.02 - Personal Leave and clause 41.01 - Volunteer Leave, for firefighters where the standard work week is forty-two (42) hours, the reference to a single period shall be "up to eight point four (8.4) hours".

Vacation Leave

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1.01 Accumulation of Vacation Leave

(a) An employee whose work schedule requires two thousand one hundred eighty-four (2184) hours per year, and who has earned pay for at least eighty (80) hours for each calendar month of a fiscal year, shall earn vacation leave at the following rates:

(b) Any other employee who has earned pay for at least seventy-five (75) hours for each calendar month of a fiscal year shall earn vacation leave in accordance with clause 35.02.1.

(c) for the purpose of clause 1.01 only, all service within the Public Service, whether continuous or discontinuous, shall count toward vacation leave except where a person who, on leaving the Public Service, takes or has taken severance pay. However, the above exception shall not apply to an employee who receives severance pay on lay-off and is reappointed to the Public Service within one (1) year following the date of lay-off.

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1.02 With respect to the application of clause 35.02.2, for firefighters where the standard work week is forty-two (42) hours the entitlement is forty-two (42) hours of vacation leave with pay.

Sick Leave With Pay

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3.01 Credits

(a) An employee whose work schedule requires two thousand one hundred eighty-four (2184) hours per year shall earn credits at the rate of eleven (11) hours per month for each calendar month for which the employee earns pay for at least eighty (80) hours.

(b) An employee subject to clause 2.01 of this Appendix shall earn additional sick leave credits at the rate of one (1) hour for each calendar month during which he or she works shifts and he or she receives pay for at least the period identified in (a) or (b) above. Such credits shall not be carried over in the next fiscal year and are available only if the employee has already used all earned sick leave credits during the current fiscal year.

(c) Any other employee shall earn credits at the rate of ten (10) hours for each calendar month for which the employee earns pay for at least seventy-five (75) hours.

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FR - FIREFIGHTERS GROUP
ANNUAL RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective August 5, 2003
X) Adjustment Effective August 5, 2003
B) Effective August 5, 2004
C) Effective August 5, 2005
D) Effective August 5, 2006

APPENDIX B

GENERAL LABOUR & TRADES
GROUP SPECIFIC PROVISIONS AND RATES OF PAY

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Vacation Leave

1.01 Furlough Leave

An employee who, on the day that this Agreement is signed, is entitled to receive furlough leave, that is to say, two hundred (200) hours of leave with pay upon completing twenty (20) years of continuous employment, retains his or her entitlement to furlough leave subject to the conditions respecting the granting of such leave that are in force on the day that this Agreement is signed.

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GL - GENERAL LABOUR & TRADES GROUP

Zone 1 - British Columbia, Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
Zone 2 - Atlantic, Quebec and Ontario
Zone 3 - Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta

PAY NOTES

1. Employees working as Painters, Bricklayers, Stonemasons and Plasterers and who, effective August 4, 2003, were paid under the Precision Working (PRW) (Painter, Bricklayer, Stonemason and Plasterer) grid contained in the expired collective agreement, effective August 5, 2003, will be paid under the Painting & Construction Finishing Sub-Group (PCF) grid.

2. Effective August 5, 2003, an employee shall be paid in the "X" line at the rate of pay which is immediately below the employee's rate of pay in the A line as of August 5, 2003, or if there is no such rate, the employee shall be paid in the "X" line in the next level and rate which is closest to but not less than the employee's rate of pay as of August 5, 2003.

AIRCRAFT MAINTAINING SUB-GROUP (AIM)
HOURLY RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective Date: August 5, 2003
X) Adjustment Effective Date: August 5, 2003
B) Effective Date: August 5, 2004
C) Effective Date: August 5, 2005
D) Effective Date: August 5, 2006

AMMUNITION WORKING SUB-GROUP (AMW)
HOURLY RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective Date: August 5, 2003
X) Adjustment Effective Date: August 5, 2003
B) Effective Date: August 5, 2004
C) Effective Date: August 5, 2005
D) Effective Date: August 5, 2006

CONSTRUCTION INSPECTING SUB-GROUP (COI)
(CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR)
HOURLY RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective Date: August 5, 2003
X) Adjustment Effective Date: August 5, 2003
B) Effective Date: August 5, 2004
C) Effective Date: August 5, 2005
D) Effective Date: August 5, 2006