Electronics (EL) 404 (Archived)

**APPENDIX "B-2"

EL - ELECTRONICS GROUP
WEEKLY RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective September 1, 2001
B) Effective September 1, 2002
C) Effective September 1, 2003

**APPENDIX "B-3"

EL - ELECTRONICS GROUP
DAILY RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective September 1, 2001
B) Effective September 1, 2002
C) Effective September 1, 2003

**APPENDIX "B-4"

EL - ELECTRONICS GROUP
HOURLY RATES OF PAY
(in dollars)

A) Effective September 1, 2001
B) Effective September 1, 2002
C) Effective September 1, 2003

**MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING

The following Memoranda of Understanding shall be effective on the date of signature and shall expire on August 31, 2004.

SIGNED AT OTTAWA this 24^th day of the month of July 2002.

MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING INDEX

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1-01 Level Examinations/Transport Canada/Fisheries and Oceans Canada

2-01 Work Sites/Egress Difficulties

3-01 Isolated Areas/Environment Allowance

4-01 Isolated Posts/Length of Assignment

5-01 Isolated Posts/Hours of Work

6-01 Shipping/Private Automobile

7-01 Vehicle/Liability

8-01 Development of Employees and Examiner Premium (DEEP)

9-01 Punch Clocks

10-01 Professional Development

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11-01 Part-Time Employees

12-01 Electronic Systems Instructors Orientation

13-01 Variable Work Week

14-01 New Employees/Shop Steward

15-01 Leave for Union Business

16-01 Foreign Affairs/Mail Service

17-01 Department of National Defence/Battery Testing

18-01 Shipboard Assignment/Rotation

1-01

**MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Level Examinations/Transport Canada/ 
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

This will confirm the understanding reached in negotiations re the above.

Level examinations in Transport Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada will no longer be mandatory. A moratorium will be applied to such examinations until such time as their status has been determined following discussions in the joint committee provided for in Article 43.

2-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Work Sites/Egress Difficulties

This will confirm the understanding reached between the parties during negotiations of the collective agreement applying to employees in the Electronics Group.

It is recognized that at some isolated and remote work sites a variety of conditions can make egress so difficult that an employee cannot leave the site at the completion of his/her assigned work. Such sites frequently are stocked with emergency food supplies and provision may be made for the employee to sleep overnight. Typical of such sites are certain mountain-top VOR sites, some lighthouse sites and remote sites in arctic regions.

When, as a result of conditions beyond the employee's control, the employee must remain at such a site, he/she will be given equivalent time off for the period he/she is required to remain at the site in an unproductive state beyond his/her normal hours of work. When work assignments are authorized normal overtime conditions will prevail during this period. Examples of sites that are recognized as meeting these requirements are: Whitehorse VOR, Enderby VOR, Landsdowne and Attawapiskat. During the term of this Agreement, it shall be open to the parties to apply the intent of this memorandum to other sites in specific cases by means of consultation between the parties.

The same provisions shall also apply to an employee assigned to perform a specific duty or duties on board a ship with no expectation of sailing with that ship but the ship sails before the employee completes his/her assignment and the employee is prevented from leaving that ship.

In addition, the same provisions shall apply to an employee assigned to perform duties on a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), when, following completion of his/her assignment, the employee is unable to depart as scheduled due to conditions outside of his/her control.

Every reasonable effort will be made to grant equivalent time off at a mutually acceptable time but if at the end of a fiscal year any time off still remains due to the employee, it shall be liquidated by the Employer by payment at the employee's straight-time hourly rate.

3-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Isolated Areas/Environment Allowance

This memorandum applies only to those Electronic Technicians previously covered by the Field Survey Allowance, T.B. 607764 of May 2, 1963.

The Employer recognizes that the payment of an Environment Allowance within the provisions of the Isolated Posts Directive is more appropriate for employees proceeding into isolated areas for temporary periods than the Field Survey Allowance.

Accordingly, the Employer discontinued the Field Survey Allowance effective March 31, 1972. Effective April 1, 1972, the Employer provided a per diem Environment Allowance determined by the utilization of the same criteria used to establish the "Classification of Posts for the Environment Allowance" and the rates for single personnel established in respect of such Environment Allowance.

The Environment Allowance will not be paid where an employee is in receipt of any allowance under the Relocation Policy, Sea Duty Allowance provided in the Electronics Group Collective Agreement, or any allowance associated with the former Field Survey Allowance.

To be eligible for this new Environment Allowance, the employee's temporary period in isolation must be for a period of thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or more.

4-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Isolated Posts/Length of Assignment

This is to advise you of an understanding reached during the negotiation of the collective agreement between the Treasury Board as Employer and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers bargaining on behalf of the Electronics Group.

It was agreed that, operational requirements permitting, the attached guidelines will continue to be implemented relative to the future assignment of employees in the Electronics Group to isolated posts.

ISOLATED POSTS

Guidelines for assignments to isolated posts in the 1 and 2 categories as listed in "Schedule A - Classification of Isolated Posts" in the Isolated Posts Directive.

Single Employee

Maximum Posting - One (1) year with a minimum of two (2) years following completion of such an assignment before re-assignment to a post in the same category.

Married - Accompanied by Family

Maximum Posting - Two (2) years with a minimum of three (3) years following completion of such an assignment before re-assignment to a post in the same category.

Married - Unaccompanied by Family

Maximum Posting - Six (6) months with a minimum of two (2) years following completion of such an assignment before re-assignment to a post in the same category.

Employees may request, in writing, an extension of the limits of the time spent at isolated posts categories 1 and 2 with the understanding that it is not normally the policy of the Employer to assign such employees for more than four (4) consecutive years to isolated posts categories 1 and 2.

Where an employee is on temporary assignment to an isolated post level 1 or 2 for periods in excess of two (2) months, those periods shall be credited to the employee and count towards satisfying the maximum requirements listed above.

5-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Isolated Posts/Hours of Work

This is to confirm the understanding reached in negotiations on behalf of the Electronics Group with respect to excess hours at Isolated Posts, on board ship or on field projects.

It is agreed that when an employee is assigned to an isolated post, on board ship or a field project where the regularly scheduled hours of work are in excess of normal hours of work, such hours of work shall not be reduced during the life of this Agreement.

If the Employer contemplates any reduction in such hours, it will notify the Union and, if requested by the Union within thirty (30) days of such notice shall within thirty (30) days of the receipt of the request provide the Union with an opportunity to consult on the proposed changes at the Regional Headquarters of the area involved.

Changes may be implemented within ninety (90) days after notice has been given to the Union providing thirty (30) days' notice has been given to the employees concerned.

The elimination from the schedule of hours in addition to those specified in paragraph 2 which were made necessary by a seasonal requirement shall not constitute a reduction of hours for the purpose of this memorandum.

6-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Shipping/Private Automobile

This will confirm the understanding reached during negotiations regarding the shipment of the private automobile of an employee who is transferred and who elects to use alternate means of transportation. The employee (excluding one covered by Foreign Service Directives) will be allowed to include in his/her household effects one private car.

7-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Vehicle/Liability

This will confirm that the Employer will, subject to this memorandum, waive its claim against any employee in the bargaining unit for reimbursement of damages paid by it to a third party for bodily injury, death or property damage caused by an accident involving a motor vehicle owned or rented by the Employer and driven by the employee in the normal course of performing his/her duties.

The Employer agrees to indemnify an employee in the bargaining unit against any liability imposed upon him/her by a court of competent jurisdiction to pay any damages arising from bodily injury, death or property damage suffered by a third party and caused by an accident which occurs while the employee is driving a motor vehicle owned or rented by the Employer while in the normal course of performing his/her duties. No employee in the bargaining unit will be eligible for such indemnification unless he/she has, prior to the occurrence of such an accident, executed and delivered to the Employer an instrument in writing in a form acceptable to the Employer having the following effect:

1. constituting and appointing the Employer as irrevocable attorney to appear and defend in any court of competent jurisdiction in which an action is brought against him/her claiming damages allegedly arising out of such an accident,

and

2. authorizing the Employer to conduct all negotiations in respect of such damages and to effect any settlement relating to the payment thereof.

None of the undertakings described in this memorandum will apply where the accident occurred while the employee was driving a vehicle owned or rented by the Employer outside the scope of his/her employment.

8-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Development of Employees and
             Examiner Premium (DEEP)

An employee at the EL-3 level and above of the Ministry of Transport Facility Engineering and Systems Development Branch who, in accordance with the current Ministry of Transport Facility Engineering and Systems Development Branch Standards and Procedures 1-1 ELCERT-1-1 Certification Program, is qualified and is required by the Employer

(a) to assess the technical proficiency of employees seeking system or equipment certification authority by acting as Proficiency Examiner,

and/or

(b) to provide development of employees in the achievement of stated Position Technical Qualification Requirements.

shall be entitled to receive an annual premium of seven hundred and eighty dollars ($780) which shall be paid on a monthly basis in the amount of sixty-five dollars ($65) per month for each month in which the employee has earned at least ten (10) days' pay commencing with the month in which the employee becomes qualified to perform such activity.

The Ministry of Transport Facility Engineering and Systems Development Branch Standards and Procedures 1-1 ELCERT-1-1 Certification Program do not form part of this Collective Agreement.

9-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Punch Clocks

This letter will confirm an understanding reached with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers during the recently concluded negotiations. It was agreed that members of the Electronics Bargaining Unit would not be required to register attendance by means of a punch clock.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Professional Development

The purpose of this memorandum is to confirm the understanding reached in negotiations between the parties with respect to working together to study the feasibility of implementing a Professional Development Program for members of Local 2228 working within various departments of the federal Public Service.

The goal of the parties would be the establishment of developmental and progression programs for the purpose of further enhancing the skills, knowledge, abilities, competencies and qualifications of electronic technologists/technicians.

The Program would recognise both departmental and employee objectives and interests related to employee training and skills.

11-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Part-Time Employees

This will confirm the understanding reached between the parties during negotiations of the collective agreement applying to part-time employees in the Electronics Group.

Definition

Part-time employee means an employee whose normal scheduled hours of work on average are less than thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours per week.

General

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.

Part-time employees shall be paid at the hourly 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.

The days of rest provisions of this Collective Agreement apply only in a week when a part-time employee has worked five (5) days and a minimum of thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours in a week at the hourly rate of pay.

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Part-time employees shall receive in lieu of designated holidays a premium of four point two five per cent (4.25%) for all straight-time hours worked during the period of part-time employment.

12-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Electronics Systems Instructors Orientation

This will confirm the understanding reached in negotiations in respect to the Electronic Systems Instructors employed at the Nav Canada Training Institute (Cornwall, Ontario) and at the Canadian Coast Guard College at Sydney (Sydney, Nova Scotia).

The parties agree to the principle that an Electronic Systems Instructor be relatively familiar with the operational environment and current field maintenance methods, practices and procedures.

In this respect, the Employer agrees to:

1. Provide orientation to new instructors of non-DFO background in DFO organizational structures, organizational objectives and relevant administration, documentation and procedures.

2. Allow an instructor to gain or re-gain appreciation of the operational environment and the applicable current field maintenance methods, practices and procedures, by providing the opportunity to visit field facilities away from the institute for a total of 5 days in any 3-year period.

13-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Variable Work Week

This will confirm the understanding reached between the parties during negotiations of the collective agreement regarding the matter under reference.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 23 and 25, employees, with the approval of the Employer, may complete their weekly hours of employment in a period other than five (5) full days provided that over a period, to be determined by the Employer, employees work an average of thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours per week.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Electronics Group collective agreement, the implementation of any variation in hours shall not result in any additional overtime work or additional payment by reason only of such variation, nor shall it be deemed to prohibit the right of the Employer to schedule any hours of work permitted by the terms of this agreement.

Any special arrangement may be at the request of either party and must be mutually agreed between the Employer and the employee(s) affected. Where individual employees' duties or shifts are interdependent, then the majority of the affected must agree to the arrangement and it shall apply to all of these employees.

Annex "A" attached outlines the administrative procedures for variable work week arrangements.

ANNEX "A"

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE TREASURY BOARD
AND
LOCAL 2228 OF
THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF
ELECTRICAL WORKERS
FOR EMPLOYEES IN THE
ELECTRONICS GROUP

The Employer and Local 2228 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) agree that notwithstanding the provisions of the Electronics Group Collective Agreement, the following conditions shall apply to employees on variable hours of work schedules pursuant to Memorandum of Understanding 19-01.

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.

1. General Terms

The scheduled hours of work on any day, as set forth in the variable work week arrangement, may exceed seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours per day; starting and finishing times, meal breaks and rest periods shall be determined according to operational requirements as defined by departmental policy and guidelines, and the daily hours of work shall be consecutive.

Such a work schedule shall provide that an employee's normal work week shall average thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours per week over the life of the cycle or variable work week arrangement.

2. Conversion of Days to Hours

The provisions of the Collective Agreement which specify days shall be converted to hours. Where the Collective Agreement refers to a "day", it shall be converted to seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours.

When an employee ceases to be subject to this Memorandum of Agreement, his/her credits will be converted to days by dividing the number of hours by seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours per day.

3. Adjustments

Any required adjustment between seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours per day and the employee's actual scheduled hours may take the form of make up time or deduction from accumulated compensatory leave or vacation leave, to be determined in advance of the implementation of the variable work week arrangement.

4. Designated Paid Holiday

(a) A designated paid holiday or a lieu day is equivalent to seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours.

(b) When a designated paid holiday falls on an employee's scheduled day off which results from the application of the variable work week, the holiday shall be moved to a later date following consultation with the employee. If mutual agreement can not be reached, management will determine the day to which the holiday is moved.

(c) When an employee to whom sub-clause 26.04(d) applies works on a designated holiday or the day to which the holiday is moved, the employee shall be paid at the straight-time hourly rate for all regularly scheduled hours worked under the variable work week arrangement. Hours worked in excess of these scheduled hours will be compensated in accordance with Article 25. This principle shall also apply to non-operating employees.

5. Sick Leave

Employees shall earn sick leave credits at the rate prescribed in Article 19 of the Collective Agreement but shall be converted to hours by multiplying the number of days by seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours. Leave will be granted on an hourly basis with the hours debited for each day of sick leave being the same as the hours the employee would have been scheduled to work on that day.

6. Vacation Leave

Employees shall earn vacation leave credits at the rates prescribed for their years of service, as set forth in Article 17 of the Collective Agreement, but shall be converted to hours on the basis of one (1) day equals seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours. Leave will be granted on an hourly basis with the hours debited for each day of vacation leave being the same as the hours the employee would have been scheduled to work on that day.

7. Other Types of Leave

The days available where specified in the Collective Agreement shall be converted to hours by multiplying the number of days by seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours.

Leave will be granted on an hourly basis with the hours debited for each day of leave being the same as the hours the employee would have been scheduled to work on that day.

8. Overtime

All employees will be paid at their straight-time hourly rate for all work performed during their regularly scheduled hours of work under the variable work week arrangement. Hours worked in excess of these scheduled hours will be compensated in accordance with Article 25.

Compensation for all work performed on a day of rest will be paid in accordance with Article 24.

Work performed on an "earned day off" (EDO) resulting from the application of the variable work week arrangement will be paid at time and one-half (1 1/2) for all hours worked provided the EDO cannot be re-scheduled and an EDO shall not be considered as a day of rest for the purposes of Article 24.

9. Training and Travel

Where training and/or travel is involved, an employee may be taken off the variable work week schedule.

10. Minimum Number of Hours Between Shifts

The provision in the collective 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.

11. Termination

Either local management or authorized local representatives of the Union may terminate a variable work week arrangement following thirty (30) days' written notice from either party to the other, providing that prior discussions on the termination have been held.

12. The foregoing is not intended to cover all terms and conditions and/or variable work week arrangement. It should be emphasized that the implementation of any variation in hours shall not result in any additional expenditure or cost by reason only of such variation.

14-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: New Employees/Shop Steward

This memorandum refers to discussions that the parties had with respect to information meetings between a shop steward and new employees.

It is agreed that when there is a regional orientation program for new employees who will be initially assigned to a remote area which does not have a union representative, an opportunity will be provided for a shop steward to meet such new employees during the orientation program. The scheduling and duration of such a meeting shall be as determined by the Employer.

15-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Leave for Union Business

This is to confirm the arrangement for time off required by Local 2228 members, granted under clause 15.04, 15.05, 15.07 and/or 15.08 of the Electronics Group Agreement.

The arrangement for leave without pay granted under clauses 15.04, 15.05, 15.07 and/or 15.08 is that this leave will be paid for by the Employer, pursuant to this Memorandum of Understanding. The Bargaining Agent shall then compensate the Employer by remitting an amount equivalent to the actual gross salary paid for each person-day, in addition to which shall also be paid the Employer by the Bargaining Agent an amount equal to 15.5% of the actual gross salary paid for each person-day, which represents the Employer's contribution to Superannuation, Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance, Medicare and such other benefits accrued to employees by virtue of their working.

As soon as possible after the signing date of the new Collective Agreement, the Employer will invoice the Bargaining Agent for the amount owed the Employer by virtue of this understanding. The amount of the gross salaries and the number of days involved for each employee will be included in the statement; the calculation of the 15.5% as above will also be figured in the said statement.

The Bargaining Agent agrees to compensate the Employer for the full amount of the invoice within ninety (90) days of the date of the invoice.

16-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Foreign Affairs/Mail Service

This is to confirm the understanding reached in negotiations on behalf of the Electronics Group with respect to the balloting of employees in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and to the use of that Department's mail services in certain circumstances.

When agreement on all terms and conditions of employment has been reached as a result of the current negotiations between the Treasury Board and Local 2228 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the latter will provide to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade a draft of a telegram summarizing the terms of the agreement. The telegram (which is not to exceed 750 words) will be transmitted to posts at which technicians are stationed. The telegram will be sent "unclassified-routing" with the comment by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade that communicators at posts are to work no overtime in handling the telegram. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will also authorize heads of post to report by telegram to the Department the results of the balloting. Copies of these incoming telegrams will be made available to a representative appointed by the Union.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will provide the use of its diplomatic mail services to posts abroad having special mailing privileges to assist the Union in conducting union elections and referenda. Posts abroad having special privileges are defined in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Manual of Procedures. They are posts at which local mailing service is considered to be inadequate or insecure. The Employer agrees to this arrangement on the understanding that each Union election ballot kit will weigh no more than three (3) ounces.

The Union is expected to make separate arrangements for mailing ballot kits and referenda ballots to posts where mailing services are considered satisfactory by the Employer.

17-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Department of National Defence/Battery Testing

This is to confirm the understanding reached in negotiations on behalf of the Electronics Group in respect to the application of clause 23.14 at certain Department of National Defence establishments.

It is understood that at certain Department of National Defence establishments, component and battery testing will require the application of the above clause when the military specifications call for a test of over seven hundred and twenty (720) hours. However, the Employer is to be held blameless should the components or batteries being tested fail thereby shortening the test to less than thirty (30) days.

18-01

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

SUBJECT: Shipboard Assignment/Rotation

This is to confirm the understanding reached in negotiations with respect to ship board assignment during Arctic and other ice-breaking voyages.

To ensure a consistent approach to extended tours of duty and to reduce possible adverse effects on employees while ensuring that operational needs are met, the following guidelines have been issued to managers:

1. The replacement of Technicians should occur coincident with the planned replacement of the ship's crew. Crew changes are scheduled prior to Arctic operations at roughly the mid-point of the voyages. Crew changes may occur after six (6) weeks, but are not likely to be later than eight (8) weeks after the beginning of the assignment. If operationally feasible, a T&E manager may effect the replacement of a Technician during the helicopter's crew change.

2. A Technician should not leave his/her assigned duty on board a specific ship until his/her replacement is on board and briefed.

3. Employees should be advised that because of operational requirements and weather conditions, the intended crew change at the mid-point of the voyage may vary, but such occurrences would be exceptional.

4. Technicians who wish to extend their period of assignment aboard ship to the next foreseen change date or to the termination of the voyage should make a written request to the Supervisor through normal channels. This request should be made prior to departure or be received by the supervisor at least 15 days prior to the scheduled change, in order to avoid any inconvenience to replacement Technicians.

5. Situations where the rotation after eight (8) weeks has not been effected, together with the surrounding circumstances should be recorded for use in possible future surveys.

These guidelines are not intended to deny any of the benefits accruing to the Electronic Technicians under their collective agreement.