Economics and Social Science Services (ES, SI) 208/412 (Archived)

APPENDIX "A"

PAY SCALES AND PAY NOTES
**ES EMPLOYEES
ANNUAL RATES OF PAY

(X) Restructure: Effective June 22, 2000
(A) Effective June 22, 2000
(Y) Restructure: Effective June 22, 2001
(B) Effective June 22, 2001
(C) Effective June 22, 2002

**SI EMPLOYEES

ANNUAL RATES OF PAY

(X) Restructure: Effective June 22, 2000
(A) Effective June 22, 2000
(Y) Restructure: Effective June 22, 2001
(B) Effective June 22, 2001
(C) Effective June 22, 2002

**ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE SERVICES GROUP

ANNUAL RATES OF PAY

(Y) Restructure: Effective June 22, 2001
(B) Effective June 22, 2001
(C) Effective June 22, 2002

PAY NOTES AND PAY INCREMENT ADMINISTRATION

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2. The rate of pay of an employee paid in the ES level 8 scale of rates shall be governed by the Senior Merit Pay Regulations.

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3. All employees for whom a restructuring is effective June 22, 2000 will move to the rate of pay shown immediately below the employees' former rate of pay at the "X" range shown in Appendix A or at the closest rate, but not lower than the employees' former rate of pay.

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4. All employees for whom a restructuring is effective June 22, 2001 will move to the rate of pay shown immediately below the employees' former rate of pay at the "Y" range shown in Appendix A or at the closest rate, but not lower than the employees' former rate of pay. Employees paid in the SI-05 to SI-08 scale of rates who have been at the maximum of their level for at least one (1) year on June 21, 2001 move retroactively to the additional step on June 22, 2001.

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5. Subject to (6), an employee being paid in the ES levels 1 to 7 or SI levels 1 to 8 scale of rates shall, on the relevant effective dates of adjustments to rates of pay, be paid in the (A), (B) and (C) scales of rates shown immediately below the employees former rate of pay. However, an employee being paid in the ES level 1 scale of rates above the minimum on the ($) scale of rates shall, effective 22 June 2000 be paid in the (A) scale of rates at a rate of pay which is two point five percent (2.5%) higher than the employee's former rate of pay rounded to the next multiple of ten dollars ($10).

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6. Subject to (7), notwithstanding the Senior Merit Pay Regulations, an employee being paid in the ES level 8 scale of rates shall, on the relevant effective dates of adjustments to rates of pay, be paid in the (A), (B) and (C) scale of rates of pay, at a rate which is two point five per cent (2.5%) higher than the employee's former rate of pay for each of the relevant dates, rounded to the nearest multiple of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250).

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7. An employee who, during the retroactive period, was appointed to a position in the ES levels 2 to 7 or SI level 1 to 8 scale of rate above the minimum on the ($) scale of rates shall, effective the date of the employees appointment be paid in the (A) scale of rates at the rate shown immediately below the employees former rate of pay.  An employee who, during the retroactive period, was appointed to a position in the ES level 1 scale of rates above the minimum on the ($) scale of rates shall, effective the date of his appointment be paid in the (A) scale of rates at a rate of pay which is two point five percent (2.5%) higher than the employee's former rate of pay rounded to the next multiple of ten dollars ($10).

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8. An employee who, during the retroactive period, was appointed to a position in the ES level 8 scale of rates above the minimum on the ($) scale of rates shall, effective the date of the employees appointment be paid in the (A) scale of rates at a rate that is two point five per cent (2.5%) higher than the employees former rate of pay, rounded to the nearest multiple of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250).

9. Subject to (1), the pay increment date for an employee, appointed on or after May 22, 1981, to a position in the SI bargaining unit or on or after January 15, 1982, in the ES bargaining unit, on promotion, demotion or from outside the Public Service, shall be the anniversary date of such appointment. The anniversary date for an employee who was appointed to a position in the SI bargaining unit prior to May 22, 1981 or in the ES bargaining unit prior to January 15, 1982, shall be the date on which the employee received his or her last pay increment.

10. If an employee dies, the salary due to the employee on the last working day preceding the employees' death shall continue to accrue to the end of the month in which the employee dies. Salary so accrued which has not been paid to the employee as at the date of the employees death shall be paid to the employees' estate.

11. When an employee who is in receipt of a special duty allowance or an extra duty allowance is granted leave with pay, the employee is entitled during the employees period of leave to receive the allowance if the special or extra duties in respect of which the employee is paid the allowance were assigned to the employee on a continuing basis, or for a period of two (2) more months prior to the period of leave.

APPENDIX "B"

PART-TIME EMPLOYEES

Definition

B.01 Part-time employee means an employee whose weekly scheduled hours of work on average are less than those established in Article 28, but not less than those prescribed in the PSSRA.

General

B.02 Part-time employees shall be entitled to the benefits provided under this Agreement in the same proportion as their normal scheduled weekly hours of work compare with the normal weekly hours of work of full-time employees unless otherwise specified in this Agreement.

B.03 Part-time employees shall be paid at the straight-time rate of pay for all work performed up to seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours in a day or thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours in a week.

B.04 The days of rest provisions of this agreement apply only in a week when a part-time employee has worked five (5) days and the weekly hours specified by this agreement.

B.05 Leave will only be provided:

(a) during those periods in which employees are scheduled to perform their duties;

or

(b) where it may displace other leave as prescribed by this Agreement.

Designated Holidays

B.06 A part-time employee shall not be paid for the designated holidays but shall, instead be paid four decimal two five (4.25) per cent for all straight-time hours worked.

B.07 When a part-time employee is required to work on a day which is prescribed as a designated paid holiday for a full-time employee in clause 20.01 of this agreement, the employee shall be paid at time and one-half (1 1/2) of the straight-time rate of pay for all hours worked up to the regular daily scheduled hours of work as specified by this agreement and double (2T) thereafter.

B.08 A part-time employee who reports for work as directed on a day which is prescribed as a designated paid holiday for a full-time employee in clause 20.01 of this agreement, shall be paid for the time actually worked in accordance with clause B.07, or a minimum of four (4) hours pay at the straight-time rate, whichever is greater

Overtime

B.09 Overtime means authorized work performed in excess of seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours per day or thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours per week but does not include time worked on a holiday.

B.10 Subject to B.09 a part-time employee who is required to work overtime shall be paid overtime as specified by this agreement.

Call-Back

B.11 When a part-time employee meets the requirements to receive call-back pay in accordance with 31.01 and is entitled to receive the minimum payment rather than pay for actual time worked, the part-time employee shall be paid a minimum payment of four (4) hours pay at the straight-time rate.

Reporting Pay

B.12 Subject to B.04, when a part-time employee meets the requirements to receive reporting pay on a day of rest, in accordance with the reporting pay provision of this Agreement, and is entitled to receive a minimum payment rather than pay for actual time worked, the part-time employee shall be paid a minimum payment of four (4) hours pay at the straight-time rate of pay.

Bereavement Leave

B.13 Notwithstanding clause B.02, there shall be no prorating of a "day" in clause 21.02, Bereavement Leave With Pay.

Vacation Leave

B.14 A part-time employee shall earn vacation leave credits for each month in which the employee receives pay for at least twice (2T) the number of hours in the employee's normal workweek, at the rate for years of service established in the vacation leave entitlement clause specified by this Agreement, prorated and calculated as follows:

(a) when the entitlement is nine decimal three seven five (9.375) hours a month, .250 multiplied by the number of hours in the employee's work week per month;

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(d) when the entitlement is fourteen decimal three seven five (14.375) hours a month, .383 multiplied by the number of hours in the employee's work week per month;

(e) when the entitlement is fifteen decimal six two five (15.625) hours a month, .417 multiplied by the number of hours in employee's work week per month;

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(f) when the entitlement is sixteen decimal eight seven five (16.875) hours a month, .450 multiplied by the number of hours in the employee's workweek per month;

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(g) when the entitlement is seventeen decimal five (17.5) hours a month, .467 multiplied by the number of hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(h) when the entitlement is eighteen decimal seven five (18.75) hours a month, .500 multiplied by the number of hours in the employee's workweek per month;

(i) 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 one-twelfth (1/12) of the 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.

Sick Leave

B.15 A part-time employee shall earn sick leave credits at the rate of one-quarter (1/4) of the number of hours in an employee's normal workweek for each calendar month in which the employee has received pay for at least twice (2T) the number of hours in the employee's normal workweek.

B.16 Vacation and Sick Leave Administration

(a) For the purposes of administration of clauses B.14 and B.15, where an employee does not work the same number of hours each week, the normal workweek shall be the weekly average of the hours worked at the straight-time rate calculated on a monthly basis.

(b) An employee whose employment in any month is a combination of both full-time and part-time employment shall not earn vacation or sick leave credits in excess of the entitlement of a full-time employee.

Severance Pay

B.17 Where the period of continuous employment in respect of which severance benefit is to be paid consists of both full- and part-time employment or varying levels of part-time employment, the benefit shall be calculated as follows: the period of continuous employment eligible for severance pay shall be established and the part-time portions shall be consolidated to equivalent full-time. The equivalent full-time period in years shall be multiplied by the full-time weekly pay rate as described in clause 25.03 to produce the severance pay.

APPENDIX "C"

VARIABLE HOURS OF WORK

The Employer and the Association agree that the following conditions shall apply to employees for whom variable hours of work schedules are approved pursuant to the relevant provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement is modified by these provisions to the extent specified herein.

It is agreed that the implementation of any such variation in hours shall not result in any additional expenditure or cost by reason only of such variation.

C.01 General Terms

The scheduled hours of work of any day as set forth in a work schedule, may exceed or be less than the regular workday hours specified by this Agreement; starting and finishing times, meal breaks and rest periods shall be determined according to operational requirements as determined by the Employer and the daily hours of work shall be consecutive.

For shift workers such schedules shall provide that an employee's normal workweek shall average the weekly hours per week specified in this Agreement over the life of the schedule. The maximum life of a schedule shall be six (6) months.

For day workers, such schedules shall provide that an employee's normal workweek shall average the weekly hours per week specified in this Agreement over the life of the schedule. The maximum life of a schedule shall be twenty-eight (28) days.

Whenever an employee changes his or her variable hours or no longer works variable hours, all appropriate adjustments will be made.

C.02 Conversion of Days to Hours

The provisions of this Agreement which specify days shall be converted to hours.

Notwithstanding the above, in clause 21.02, Bereavement Leave with Pay, a "day" will have the same meaning as the provisions of the Collective Agreement.

Where the Agreement specifies a workweek a day shall be converted to seven decimal five (7.5) hours.

C.03 Implementation/Termination

Effective the date on which this article applies to an employee, the accrued leave credits shall be converted from days to hours.

A change to the normal weekly hours of work for an employee will require that the accrued hourly credits be reverted to days and recalculated at the changed conversion rate.

Effective the date on which this article ceases to apply to an employee, the accrued vacation, sick leave and lieu day credits shall be converted from hours to days.

C.04 Leave - General

When leave is granted, it will be granted on an hourly basis and the hours debited for each day of leave shall be the same as the hours the employee would normally have been scheduled to work on that day.

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All leave provisions which specify days in this Agreement shall be converted to hours with one (1) day being equal to seven point five (7.5) hours.

C.05 Specific Application

For greater certainty, the following provisions shall be administered as provided herein:

Interpretation and Definitions

"Daily rate of pay" - shall not apply.

Overtime

Each fifteen (15)-minute period of overtime shall be compensated for at the following rates:

(a) time and one-half (1 1/2), except as provided in (b) below;

(b) double (2) time for all hours of overtime worked in excess of seven and one-half (7 1/2) consecutive hours of overtime in any contiguous period, and for all hours worked on the second or subsequent day of rest provided the employee also worked on the first day of rest. Second or subsequent day of rest means the second or subsequent day in an unbroken series of consecutive and contiguous calendar days of rest.

Travel

Overtime compensation referred to in clause 30.04 of this Agreement shall only be applicable on a normal day for hours in excess of the employee's daily scheduled hours of work.

Designated Paid Holidays

(a) designated paid holiday shall account for the normal daily hours specified by this Agreement.

(b) an employee works on a Designated Paid Holiday, the employee shall be compensated, in addition to the normal daily hours' pay specified by this Agreement, according to Article 20 provisions for compensation on a designated holiday.

Vacation Leave

Employees shall earn vacation at the rates prescribed for their years of service as set forth in the specific article of this Agreement. Leave will be granted on an hourly basis and the hours debited for each day of vacation leave shall be the same as the employee would normally have been scheduled to work on that day.

Sick Leave

Employees shall earn sick leave credits at the rate prescribed in Article 22 of this Agreement. Leave will be granted on an hourly basis and the hours debited for each day of sick leave shall be the same as the employee would normally have been scheduled to work on that day.

Acting Pay

The qualifying period for acting pay as specified in clause 27.07 shall be converted to hours.

Exchange of Shifts

On exchange of shifts between employees, the Employer shall pay as if no exchange had occurred.

Minimum Number of Hours Between Shifts

The provision in this Agreement relating to the minimum period between the termination and commencement of the employee's next shift shall not apply to an employee subject to variable hours of work.

APPENDIX "D"

PENOLOGICAL FACTOR ALLOWANCE

General

D.01 A Penological Factor Allowance shall be payable to incumbents in some positions in the bargaining unit which are in Correctional Service Canada, subject to the following conditions.

D.02 The Penological Factor Allowance is used to provide additional compensation to an incumbent of a position who, by reason of duties being performed in a penitentiary, as defined in the Penitentiary Act as amended from time to time, assumes additional responsibilities for the custody of inmates other than those exercised by the Correctional Group, and is exposed to immediate hazards of physical injury by assault and other disagreeable conditions.

Degrees of Exposure

D.03 The factor recognizes the differences between maximum, medium and minimum security penal institutions, as designated by the Employer, and distinguishes between continual, frequent and limited degrees of exposure, as follows:

Formula

D.04 The payment of the allowance for the Penological Factor is determined by the following formula:

Amount of PFA

D.05 The value of "X" is set at one thousand and six hundred dollars ($1,600) per annum. This allowance shall be paid on the same basis as that for the employee's regular pay.

Application of PFA

D.06 Penological Factor Allowance shall only be payable to the incumbent of a position on the establishment of, or loaned to, Correctional Staff Colleges, Regional Headquarters, and National Headquarters, when the conditions described in clause D.02 above are applicable.

D.07 The applicability of PFA to a position and the position's degree of PFA entitlement, shall be determined by the Employer following consultation with the bargaining agent.

D.08 Except as prescribed in clause D.11 below, an employee shall be entitled to receive PFA for any month in which he or she receives a minimum of ten (10) days' pay in a position(s) to which PFA applies.

D.09 Except as provided in clause D.10 below, PFA shall be adjusted when the incumbent of a position to which PFA applies, is appointed or assigned duties in another position to which a different degree of PFA applies, regardless of whether such appointment or assignment is temporary or permanent, and for each month in which an employee performs duties in more than one position to which PFA applies, the employee shall receive the higher allowance, provided he or she has performed duties for at least ten (10) days as the incumbent of the position to which the higher allowance applies.

D.10 When the incumbent of a position to which PFA applies, is temporarily assigned a position to which a different degree of PFA, or no PFA, applies, and when the employee's basic monthly pay entitlement in the position to which he or she is temporarily assigned, plus PFA, if applicable, would be less than his or her basic monthly pay entitlement plus PFA in his or her regular position, the employee shall receive the PFA applicable to his or her regular position.

D.11 An employee will be entitled to receive PFA, in accordance with the PFA applicable to his or her regular position:

D.12 PFA shall not form part of an employee's salary except for the purposes of the following benefit plans:

Public Service Superannuation Act
Public Service Disability Insurance Plan
Canada Pension Plan
Quebec Pension Plan
Employment Insurance
Government Employees Compensation Act
Flying Accident Compensation Regulations

D.13 If, in any month, an employee is disabled or dies prior to establishing an entitlement to PFA, the PFA benefits accruing to the employee or the employee's estate shall be determined in accordance with the PFA entitlement for the month preceding such disablement or death.

APPENDIX "E"

LEAVE FOR SHIFT WORKERS

E.01 It is recognized that certain full-time indeterminate employees whose hours of work are regularly scheduled on a shift basis in accordance with clause 28.03 of this Agreement and who receive Shift Premiums (clause 33.01) in accordance with Article 33, hereinafter referred to as a shift work employee, are required to attend certain proceedings, under this collective agreement as identified in clause E.01(a) and certain other proceedings identified in clause E.01(b) which normally take place between the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays inclusive.

When a shift work employee who is scheduled to work on the day of that proceeding and when the proceeding is not scheduled during the employee's scheduled shift for that day and when the majority of the hours of his scheduled shift on that day do not fall between the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., upon written application by the employee, the Employer shall endeavour, where possible, to change the shift work employee's shift on the day of the proceeding so that the majority of the hours fall between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. provided that operational requirements are met, there is no increase in cost to the Employer and sufficient advance notice is given by the employee.

(a) Certain Proceedings Under This Agreement

(b) Certain Other Proceedings

**APPENDIX "F"

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN
THE TREASURY BOARD OF CANADA
(HEREINAFTER CALLED THE EMPLOYER)
AND
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
(HEREINAFTER CALLED THE ASSOCIATION)
IN RESPECT OF TRAVELLING TIME

The purpose of this memorandum of understanding is to establish a joint committee comprising equal representation from the Employer and the Association to review the issue of travelling time.

The committee will meet within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the signing of the collective agreement for the Economics and Social Science Services Bargaining Unit.

The committee will report its findings and, if applicable, its recommendations to the parties.

SIGNED AT OTTAWA, this 27^th day of the month of June 2001.

**APPENDIX "G"

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN
THE TREASURY BOARD OF CANADA
(HEREINAFTER CALLED THE EMPLOYER)
AND
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
(HEREINAFTER CALLED THE ASSOCIATION)
IN RESPECT OF
INFORMATION PROVIDED TO EMPLOYEES JOINING
THE BARGAINING UNIT

This memorandum is to give effect to the understanding reached by the Employer and the Association in negotiating for the renewal of this agreement.

The parties agree they will established a joint committee comprising equal representation to meet within ninety (90) days of the signing of this collective agreement for the Economics and Social Science Services Bargaining Unit.

The committee will address the issue of providing employees newly appointed to the bargaining unit with information regarding the Association.

The committee will set up a pilot to:

1. determine the mechanisms to be used to provide the above-mentioned information;

2. implement these mechanisms;

3. assess the effectiveness of these mechanisms once the agreement has expired and report back to the parties prior to the signing of a new agreement.

The committee will endeavour to be ready to implement the pilot project within 90 days from its first meeting.

SIGNED AT OTTAWA, this 27^th day of the month of June 2001.