Electronics (EL) 404 (Archived)

Agreement - Electronics - List of Changes

ARTICLE 2
INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS

2.01

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(c) "bargaining unit" means the employees of the Employer in the Electronics Group, as described in the certificate issued by the Public Service Staff Relations Board on the 7^th day of March 1969, amended on the 11^th day of May 1999;

ARTICLE 8
RECOGNITION

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8.01 The Employer recognizes the Local Union 2228 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as the exclusive bargaining agent for all employees described in the certificate issued by the Public Service Staff Relations Board on the 7^th day of March 1969, amended on the 11^th day of May 1999.

ARTICLE 14
USE OF EMPLOYER FACILITIES

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14.02

The Employer may provide a private area, if and where available, for the Local's shop steward to be able to conduct his/her duties as a local representative.

ARTICLE 17
VACATION LEAVE

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17.02 Accumulation of Vacation Leave

Effective Date of Signing

An employee who has earned at least ten (10) days' pay for each calendar month of a fiscal year shall earn vacation leave of:

(a) fifteen (15) working days per fiscal year for an employee who has completed up to eight (8) years of service;

(b) twenty (20) working days per fiscal year if he/she has completed eight (8) years of service;

(c) twenty-three (23) working days per fiscal year if he/she has completed seventeen (17) years of service;

(d) twenty-five (25) working days per fiscal year if he/she has completed eighteen (18) years of service except that an employee who has received or is entitled to receive furlough leave shall accumulate twenty (20) working days only per fiscal year in his/her twenty-first (21st), twenty-second (22nd), twenty-third (23rd), twenty-fourth (24th) and twenty-fifth (25th) year of service;

(e) twenty-eight (28) working days per fiscal year if he/she has completed twenty-eight (28) years of service;

(f) thirty (30) working days per fiscal year if he/she has completed twenty-nine (29) years of service;

(g) vacation leave provided under 17.02 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) above, which is in excess of  fifteen (15), twenty (20), twenty-three (23), twenty-five (25) or twenty-eight (28) days per fiscal year respectively shall be granted on a pro rata basis during the fiscal year in which the employee completes the required years of service.

(h)

ARTICLE 18
OTHER LEAVE WITH OR WITHOUT PAY

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18.02 Bereavement Leave With Pay

For the purpose of this clause, immediate family is defined as father, mother, (or alternatively stepfather, stepmother, foster parent or former guardian of the employee), brother, sister, spouse, child or ward of the employee, father-in-law, mother-in-law, step-brother, step-sister, grandchild or a relative permanently residing in the employee's household or with whom the employee permanently resides.

(a) When a member of his/her immediate family dies, and the employee attends the funeral, the employee shall be entitled to bereavement leave with pay for a period of up to three (3) consecutive normally scheduled working days and the period of such leave shall encompass the day of the funeral. In addition, when necessary, the employee may be granted for the purpose of related travel up to three (3) calendar days' leave with no reduction in his/her weekly rate of pay.

(b) An employee is entitled to bereavement leave with pay for up to one (1) day to attend the funeral of his/her grandparent, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or in the event of the death of any member of the immediate family in (a) above when the employee is not attending the funeral.

(c) It is recognized by the parties that the circumstances which call for leave in respect of bereavement are based on individual circumstances. On request, the Deputy Head of a department may, after considering the particular circumstances involved, grant leave with pay for a period greater than that provided for in sub-clause 18.02(a) and (b).

(d) Where in respect of any period of vacation leave or a combination of vacation leave and lieu days, circumstances arise which necessitate bereavement leave in accordance with clause 18.02, the leave taken shall be substituted for vacation leave and/or lieu days.

18.12 Leave With Pay for Family-Related Responsibilities

(b) The Employer shall grant leave with pay under the following circumstances:

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(c) The total leave with pay which may be granted under sub-clause (b)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) shall not exceed five (5) days in a fiscal year.

ARTICLE 19
SICK LEAVE

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19.04 Unless otherwise informed by the Employer, a statement signed by the employee stating that because of illness or injury he/she was unable to perform his/her duties shall, when delivered to the Employer, be considered as meeting the requirements of sub-clause 19.02(b).

ARTICLE 20
NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL AGREEMENTS

20.03

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(30) Public Service Health Care Plan Directive.

ARTICLE 22
SEVERANCE PAY

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22.02 Lay-Off

An employee who has one (1) year or more of continuous employment and who is laid off is entitled to be paid severance pay at the time of lay-off.

(a) On the first lay-off, two (2) weeks' pay for the first completed year of continuous employment and one (1) week's pay for each additional complete year of continuous employment and, in the case of a partial year of continuous employment, one (1) week's pay multiplied by the number of days of continuous employment divided by 365.

(b) On second or subsequent lay-off, one (1) week's pay for each complete year of continuous employment and, in the case of a partial year of continuous employment, one (1) week's pay multiplied by the number of days of continuous employment divided by 365, less any period in respect of which the employee was granted severance pay under sub-paragraph (a) above.

ARTICLE 25
OVERTIME

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25.05 Except for employees serving abroad with Foreign Affairs and International Trade where current local conditions for payment of meals will continue, employees working overtime will be granted meal breaks and compensated for meals as follows:

(a) An employee who works three (3) or more hours of overtime immediately before his/her scheduled hours of work shall be provided a paid meal break of up to one-half (1/2) hour duration and be reimbursed his/her expenses for one (1) meal in the amount of nine dollars ($9).

(b) An employee who works three (3) or more hours of overtime immediately following his/her scheduled hours of work shall be provided a paid meal break of up to one-half (1/2) hour duration and be reimbursed his/her expenses for one (1) meal in the amount of nine dollars ($9).

(c) For each four (4) hours an employee works overtime continuously extending beyond the period provided in (a) or (b) above, he/she shall be provided a paid meal break of up to one-half (1/2) hour and be reimbursed at the rate of nine dollars ($9) for each meal.

(d) When, at the request of the employee, a meal period of more than one-half (1/2) hour can be arranged and taken prior to the beginning of an overtime assignment such meal period shall be unpaid time and no reimbursement for expenses will be made. Utilization of this option shall not serve to deny an employee entitlement under (c) above.

ARTICLE 27
TRAVEL

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27.09

(a) Upon request by the employee and with the approval of the Employer, compensation at the applicable overtime rate earned under this Article may be granted in compensatory leave with pay. Such time off will be liquidated at a mutually acceptable time.

(b) If any time off in lieu of overtime earned in accordance with 27.09(a) cannot be liquidated by the end of the fiscal year, then payment in cash will be made at the employee's hourly rate of pay as of March 31^st.

ARTICLE 28
CALL-BACK

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28.04 When an employee is called back to work in accordance with clause 28.01 for a period of overtime, the duration of which cannot be pre-determined, and works four (4) hours or more of overtime he/she shall be provided a paid meal break of up to one-half (1/2) hour and a meal allowance of nine dollars ($9). If the employee continues to work for four (4) hours or more of overtime he/she shall be provided further paid meal breaks of up to one-half (1/2) hour and allowances of nine dollars ($9) at the completion of this second and subsequent four (4)-hour periods.

ARTICLE 29
STANDBY

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29.01 When an employee is notified in writing that he/she will be required to be available for work during his/her off-duty hours the employee shall be entitled to a standby payment of one (1) hour's pay at the straight-time rate for each consecutive eight (8) hours or portion thereof that he/she is required to remain available.

ARTICLE 30
SHIFT AND WEEKEND PREMIUMS

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30.01 An employee will receive a shift premium of eleven dollars ($11) for each shift worked on the 16:00 to 24:00 evening shift and for each shift worked on the 00:00 to 08:00 night shift.

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30.03 Where an operating employee's assigned work place has shift cycles which have scheduled shifts on Saturdays and Sundays and it is evident that these weekend shifts will be on a continuing basis and are not affected by seasonal operations, the employee shall receive a weekend premium of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per hour for all regular hours worked on Saturday and/or Sunday at his/her straight-time hourly rate in addition to the above shift premiums.

ARTICLE 31
SEA DUTY

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31.01 Except for employees of the Department of National Defence when covered by Article 32, (Sea Trials' Allowance), any employee assigned to work aboard a ship shall be paid a Sea Duty Allowance of fifteen dollars ($15) for each such night he/she is at sea.

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31.02 Except for employees of the Department of National Defence when covered by Article 32 (Sea Trials' Allowance), any employee assigned to work aboard a ship shall be paid a Sea Duty Allowance, in addition to 31.01 above, of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each night beyond forty-four (44) consecutive nights that he/she is at sea.

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31.04 When an employee is required to proceed to a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) or to board a vessel or submarine at sea by helicopter or vessel and is required to transfer from that helicopter or vessel to the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), vessel or submarine, he/she shall be paid a transfer allowance of ten dollars ($10). If the employee leaves the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), vessel or submarine by similar transfer he/she shall be paid a further ten dollars ($10).

ARTICLE 32
SEA TRIALS' ALLOWANCE

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32.01

(a) When an employee is required to be in a submarine during trials under the following conditions:

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(b) when an employee is required to proceed to sea beyond the harbour limits aboard a HMC Ship, Auxiliary Vessel or Yardcraft for the purpose of conducting trials, repairing defects or dumping ammunition;

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(c) when an employee is required to work in a shore-based work site in direct support of an ongoing sea trial;

he/she shall be compensated in accordance with clause 32.03.

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32.02 Article 23.13 (Encroachment) shall be applied at the termination of the sea trial only.

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32.03

(a) He/she shall be paid at the employee's straight-time rate for all hours during his/her regularly scheduled hours of work and for all unworked hours aboard the vessel or at the shore-based work site.

(b) He/she shall be paid overtime at time and one-half (1 1/2) the employee's straight-time hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of the regularly scheduled hours of work up to twelve (12) hours.

(c) After this period of work, the employee shall be paid twice (2) his/her straight-time hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of twelve (12) hours.

(d) After this period of work, the employee shall be paid three (3) times his/her straight-time hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of sixteen (16) hours.

(e) Where an employee is entitled to triple (3) time in accordance with (d) above, the employee shall continue to be compensated for all hours worked at triple (3) time until he/she is given a period of rest of at least ten (10) consecutive hours.

(f) Upon return from the sea trial, an employee who qualified under 32.03(d) shall not be required to report for work on his/her regularly scheduled shift until a period of ten (10) hours has elapsed from the end of the period of work that exceeded fifteen (15) hours.

ARTICLE 43
TRAINING

Off-Location Training

43.06

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(c) Clause (b) above shall apply to employees in Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) only when they are required to attend courses outside their headquarters' area.

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(d) The Employer will make every reasonable effort to ensure that training courses do not require employees to be away from their headquarters area between December 15^th and January 5^th.

ARTICLE 46
FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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46.01 Foreign Technicians

Foreign Technicians and Engineers shall not be permitted to work on Canadian-owned electronics equipment installed or maintained by the Infrastructure Technology Division without the approval of the Regional Technical Manager (RTM) or if he/she is not available, the Head of Mission (HOM) or delegate after consultation with the Infrastructure Technology Division (SXT) Ottawa. The RTM or HOM shall only give permission in emergency situations and the work performed shall be inspected by a DFAIT employee in the Electronics group at the next possible opportunity.

ARTICLE 54
PAY ADMINISTRATION

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54.08 Acting Pay

An employee who is required by the Employer to perform on an acting basis the duties of a higher position to which a higher rate of pay would apply, if appointed for a period of at least three (3) consecutive scheduled working days for a non-operating employee or at least three (3) consecutive scheduled working days for an operating employee, shall be paid acting pay, from the date on which he/she commenced to act, equal to the difference between the employee's current rate of pay and the rate of pay to which he/she would be entitled if he/she were appointed to the position.

Acting pay will be recalculated as the result of any pay increment or any change to the range of rates in the employee's substantive position or any change to the range of rates in the higher position.

ARTICLE 59
DURATION AND RENEWAL

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59.02 This Agreement shall expire on August 31, 2001.

**APPENDIX "B-1"

EL - ELECTRONICS GROUP

Levels 1 to 9, inclusive
Annual, weekly, daily and hourly rates of pay

The rates of pay shown become effective September 1, 1999.

The weekly rates shall be used for computing an employee's pay.