City of Campbell River

Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2023. Signed on Aug. 24, 2020.

Wage adjustments:

Effective Jan. 6, 2019: 2%

Effective Jan. 5, 2020: 2%

Effective Jan. 3, 2021: 2%

Effective Jan. 1, 2022: 2.25%

Effective Jan. 1, 2023: 2.25%

Shift premium: Police guards will be paid 50% of straight-time rate for one-half meal break as they are expected to remain in cell area (at duty station) during meal break and will maintain continual monitoring of prisoners during meal break. $1 per hour for all hours worked between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. for employees working minimum 4-hour shift. Double time for hours worked beyond 12 hours for schedule E police guard employees. $0.50 for each hour, minimum 2 hours, to work on asphalt spray truck; hot-mix paving; use of herbicides and pesticides; handling of cold-mix paving; handling of chlorine; road marking (painting); concrete and cement work; collection of outside garbage; clean and sanitize area, exclusive of sinks, toilets and urinals, that is grossly contaminated with blood or other human bodily fluids. $0.75 for each hour, minimum 2 hours, when working with sewage; working in wastewater system facilities and collection systems including all ancillary wastewater equipment and infrastructure, excluding office facilities. $0.75 for each hour, minimum 2 hours, when working in confined space dealing with sewage; working within asbestos work-zone protective boundary; repairing broken sewage line. Double time for all hours worked on full-body disinterments.

Paid holidays: 12 days. In lieu of 12 statutory holidays, police guards, watch clerks, police-records services coordinators, records clerks, airport shift personnel, parks specialists 1 and 2 will be granted annual allotment of hours on Jan. 1 of each year.

Vacations with pay: 15 days or 6% to start, 20 days or 8% after 6 years, 25 days or 10% after 14 years, 30 days or 12% after 21 years, 35 days or 14% after 29 years. Employees will receive 5 supplemental vacation days for each 5 years of consecutive service completed; 10 supplemental vacation days for each 5 years of consecutive service completed after 20 years of service. Employees who have taken minimum 15 days of vacation leave by Dec. 31 may bank 1 week of unused vacation allotment, maximum 26 weeks.

Overtime: Time and one-half for first 3 hours of work beyond regular workdays; double time after 3 hours of overtime. Time and one-half for first 1 hour of work beyond regular workdays; double time thereafter for schedule F airport employees. Double time for hours worked beyond 11 hours for schedule E watch clerk employees; time and one-half for first 2 hours after 9 hours on night shift, double time thereafter. Time and one-half for first hour worked after 10-hour shift, double time thereafter for schedule E police records services coordinator and records clerk employees. Time may be banked and taken as time off in lieu, maximum 15 working days banked at any 1 time.

Meal allowance: $17 if employee is required to work 2 hours beyond scheduled work shift or is called in without 12 hours’ previous notice and who works not on scheduled work shift. Additional $17 for every 4-hour period.

Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums.

Dental: Employer pays 70% of premiums, employee pays 30% of premiums.

Sick leave: 1.25 days per month. On termination or retirement after 2 years of service, employee will be paid one-third of accumulated leave; one-third or 1 month’s pay, whichever is greater, after 5 years of service.

Life insurance: Employer pays 80% of premiums, employee pays 20% of premiums.

Bereavement leave: 5 days for death of spouse, parent, child. 3 days for death of sibling, parent-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparents. Maximum one-half day to attend as pallbearer or mourner at funeral of deceased City of Campbell River employee, provided minimal departmental staff is maintained.

Seniority – recall rights: 18 months for layoffs; 3 months for transfer to position outside bargaining unit.

Call-in pay: Minimum 2 hours’ pay at overtime rates (when employee commences work, employer will pay minimum 3 hours’ pay at overtime rates).

Probationary period: 6 calendar months from date of hire.

Discipline: Sunset clause is 2 years for disciplinary notations.

Safety shoes: $450 every 24 months (previously $200 per year) for approved safety footwear.

Uniforms/clothing: Survey vests will be provided for survey crews. Coveralls will be provided for mechanics, carpenters, sewage-treatment plant operators, waterworks, patching, road marking, cement-finishing crews.

Tool allowance: $0.30 per hour worked for tradesperson who supplies own tools.

Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 11% increase):

Co-op program students: $19.75 rising 5 steps to $21.91

Facility services worker/labourer 1: $27.17 rising 5 steps to $30.14

Administrative assistant: $27.45 rising 5 steps to $30.46

Form-setter/operator-in-training/pipelayer: $27.84 rising 5 steps to $30.89

Cement finisher/equipment operator 1/labourer 2: $28.21 rising 5 steps to $31.30

Equipment operator 2/utility operator 1: $28.71 rising 5 steps to $31.86

Clerk technician/infrastructure maintenance technician/storekeeper: $29.89 rising 5 steps to $33.16

Equipment operator 3/utility operator 2: $30.49 rising 5 steps to rising 5 steps to $33.82

Wastewater utility operator 1/equipment operator 3: $31.01 rising 5 steps to $34.41

Survey technician: $32.15 rising 5 steps to $35.68

Engineering technologist 1/maintenance coordinator: $32.50 rising 5 steps to $36.06

Lead-hand: $33.37 rising 5 steps to $37.02

Utility operator 3: $33.63 rising 5 steps to $37.31

Electrical and instrumentation technician/electrician/engineering technologist 2/foreperson 1/mechanic: $35.12 rising 5 steps to $38.97

Contractor coordinator: $36.64 rising 5 steps to $40.64

Instrumentation and telemetry analyst/fleet-services coordinator/supervisor: $38.16 rising 5 steps to $42.33

Engineering technologist 3: $39.35 rising 5 steps to $43.66

Environmental science officer: $39.35 rising 5 steps to $43.66

Swimming pool employees

Certified instructor 2: $22.01 rising 5 steps to $24.43

Head lifeguard:$22.87 rising 5 steps to $25.39

Pool team-lead $23.79 rising 5 steps to $26.41

Recreation programs employees

Instructor/leader: $19.75 rising 5 steps to $21.91

Certified instructor 1: $20.43 rising 5 steps to $22.68

Certified instructor 2: $22.01 rising 5 steps to $24.43

Fitness crew leader: $22.90 rising 5 steps to $25.42

Assistant programmer: $23.79 rising 5 steps to $26.41

Facility services worker: $27.17 rising 5 steps to $30.14

Facility services worker 2: $29.89 rising 5 steps to $33.16

Apprentices

First-year apprentice: 82.5% of tradesperson’s rate

Second-year apprentice: 83% of tradesperson’s rate

Third-year apprentice: 84% of tradesperson’s rate

Fourth-year apprentice: 85% of tradesperson’s rate

Editor’s notes: Standby pay: $450 per week.