Queen Charlotte, B.C. | (100 educational, clerical, maintenance employees) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 2020
Renewal agreement: Effective July 1,2022 to June 30, 2025. Signed on June 16, 2023.
Shift premium: $0.60 per hour for lead-hands who supervise 2 or more employees (but remain under direct supervision of supervisor). $1.57 per hour for employees working in new construction (defined as construction of new building providing new floor space or extension to present building). $1 per hour to operations and IT departments shifts starting between 3 p.m. and midnight. $1 per hour for education assistants, early learning coordinators, strong-start facilitators, with certification.
Paid holidays: 13 days, including National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Vacations with pay: 1.5 days per month, maximum 10 days, to start, 20 days after 1 year, 25 days after 6 years, 30 days after 13 years. 1 additional day for each year of service after 20 years of service. Employee can carry over time into following year, maximum 2 weeks.
Overtime: Time and one-half for first 2 hours worked; double time for balance of time worked. Double time for work on day of rest.
Sick leave: 1.5 days for each month of employment, maximum accumulation of 120 days.
Pension: Employer will match employee contribution to group RRSP, maximum 6%.
Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (employee’s spouse, common-law partner, parent, sibling, child, parent-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, grandparent, grandchild). 1 day for death of any relative or friend not mentioned. 1 day to attend funeral as pallbearer.
Seniority – recall rights: 15 months after layoffs. Employee will not lose accumulated seniority if they are absent from work because of sickness, accident, leave of absence.
Call-in pay: Double time, minimum 2 hours for each call-in request.
Probationary period: 3 months worked from commencement of employment.
Severance: 2% of annual earnings to start; 4% of annual earnings after 6 months of service; 5% of annual earnings, pro-rated for each year’s service, after 1 year of service.
Safety shoes: $200 per year for custodians for appropriate footwear.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 2% increase):
Accounting clerk: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
MyEdBC coordinator level 1: $30.40 rising 1 step to $31
Bus driver: $30.40 rising 1 step to $31
Child care worker: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
Records clerk: $28.73 rising 1 step to $29.31
Confidential administrative assistant: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
Custodian: $28.70 rising 1 step to $29.27
C&Y wellness support worker: $41.13 rising 1 step to $41.95
District resource centre clerk: $28.73 rising 1 step to $29.31
Early learning program coordinator: $34.59 rising 1 step to $35.29
Education assistant 1: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
Education assistant: $33.72 rising 1 step to $34.40
Indigenous resource worker: $33.72 rising 1 step to $34.40
Food coordinator: $30.40 rising 1 step to $31
Haida education admin assistant: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
Home/school coordinator: $30.40 rising 1 step to $31
Information technology tech: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
Library clerk: $30.40 rising 1 step to $31
Maintenance 1: $25.43 rising 1 step to $25.93
Maintenance 1: $30.91 rising 1 step to $31.53
Maintenance 3: $31.96 rising 1 step to $32.60
Noon-hour supervisor: $27.08 rising 1 step to $27.62
Payroll clerk: $33.72 rising 1 step to $34.40
School administrative assistant: $33.72 rising 1 step to $34.40
Secondary school admin assistant: $34.59 rising 1 step to $35.29
Strong-start coordinator: $32.05 rising 1 step to $32.69
Trades worker: $37.45 rising 1 step to $38.20
Editor’s notes: Retirement: 50%) of the accumulated sick leave will be paid out upon retirement of employee with 3 years of service. Career-development program: Employer will contribute $160 per full-time equivalent employee, employee will contribute $40 on pro-rata basis, to career development fund exclusively for use of bargaining unit members.
