Nanaimo, B.C. (650 municipal employees) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 401
Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2022.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2020: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2021: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2022: 2%
Shift premium: Double time for all time worked on exhumations in public cemetery. 1 pay level increase from employee’s regular rate of pay for lead-hands. $1 per hour for operators who drive equipment involved in sanding and salting or plowing snow.
Paid holidays: 12 days.
Vacations with pay: 3 weeks (pro-rated) or 6% to start, 3 weeks or 6% after 3 years, 4 weeks or 8% after 6 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 14 years, 6 weeks or 12% after 21 years.
Overtime: Time and one-half for work in excess of normal scheduled workday; double time after 3 hours of overtime. Double time for all overtime on Saturdays, Sundays, statutory holidays (exception that overtime performed between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays will be paid at time and one–half). Maximum 80 hours may be accumulated each year and must be taken by May 31 of following year or will be paid out in June.
Meal allowance: $17 when overtime shifts are offered less than 24 hours before start of overtime: 1 meal allowance will apply at 3 hours of overtime worked and each additional 4 hours of overtime worked thereafter.
Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums for Medical Services Plan of B.C. Employer pays 75% of premiums, employee pays 25% of premiums for employee assistance plan.
Dental: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Coverage of orthodontics reimbursed at 50% of approved fee schedule, lifetime maximum of $3,500 for each dependent child.
Vision: Employer pays 100% of premiums. $500 every 2 years (previously $400 every 2 years), exclusive of optometrist fees.
Sick leave: 18 days per year. Maximum 120 days may be accumulated during period of collective agreement. Maximum 3 days per year (previously 5 days per year) for illness of dependent child or member of immediate family.
LTD: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums for coverage of 60% of normal basic earnings, maximum $3,500 per month.
AD&D: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $100,000.
Life insurance: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of $100,000.
Pension: Employees will be covered by terms of municipal pension plan rules made under Municipal Pension Plan Joint Trustee Agreement.
Bereavement leave: 5 days for death in immediate family (father, mother, spouse, common-law spouse (spouse will mean person who continues to and has cohabitated with employee for minimum 1 year and who is publicly represented as spouse), children, stepchildren, brothers, sisters, parents-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, stepparents, grandchildren, grandparents of employee (sister-in-law, brother-in-law, parents-in-law, stepparents include married and common-law relationships).
Seniority – recall rights: 18 months for layoffs.
Call-in pay: 4 hours of pay at regular rates or for actual time worked at applicable overtime rates, whichever is greater.
Probationary period: 60 days worked or 4 calendar months from date of hiring, whichever is lesser.
Safety shoes: $300 every 24 months for purchase or repair of steel-toed safety boots or approved safety footwear.
Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide $125 per year swimsuit /wetsuit allowance for mutually agreeable swimwear. Gloves, coveralls will be supplied to employees who work with hot asphalt, clean plugged sanitary sewers, sewer-truck clean-up.
Tool allowance: $350 per year for employees required by employer to supply own tools, as condition of employment. $50 once every 2 years for raingear.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current, after 6.1% increase):
7-hour day schedule B
Level 1: $25.91 rising 3 steps to $27.50
Level 2: $27.02 rising 3 steps to $28.67
Level 3: $28.13 rising 3 steps to $29.85
Level 4: $29.26 rising 3 steps to $31.06
Level 5: $30.38 rising 3 steps to $32.24
Level 6: $31.50 rising 3 steps to $33.43
Level 7: $32.62 rising 3 steps to $34.62
Level 8: $33.73 rising 3 steps to $35.79
Level 9: $34.87 rising 3 steps to $37.01
Level 10: $35.99 rising 3 steps to $38.19
Level 11: $37.51 rising 3 steps to $39.81
Level 12: $39.88 rising 3 steps to $42.32
Level 13: $42.54 rising 3 steps to $45.15
Level 14: $45.50 rising 3 steps to $48.29
Level 15: $48.83 rising 3 steps to $51.83
Level 16: $52.39 rising 3 steps to $55.60
Level 17: $56.21 rising 3 steps to $59.65
Level 18: $60.30 rising 3 steps to $63.99
Level 19: $64.63 rising 3 steps to $68.58
Classification
Level 7 (police information clerk/police records clerk/police support clerk/public works maintenance/real estate clerk/records management clerk/refuse collector/operator/secretary finance/secretary parks/steno building inspections/steno bylaw/steno engineering services/steno planning switchboard operator permit centre clerk/switchboard operator police user rates clerk/watch clerk: $32.62 rising 3 steps to $34.62
Level 8 (40-hr operator dispatcher/accounting clerk parks/building services technician/clerk dispatcher public works/client support specialist/collections clerk finance/communications clerk/engineering clerk construction/equipment operator public works/exhibit and property clerk/facilities technician parks/logistics clerk/parks equipment operator 3/parks utility worker carpentry/permit centre information clerk/police administration clerk/property clerk: $33.73 rising 3 steps to $35.79
Level 11 7-hr day (assistant accountant capital assets/engineering development technician/engineering traffic technologist/GIS technologist/occupational health and safety coordinator/programmer/network analyst/records/information and privacy coordinator/senior surveyor: $38.04 rising 3 steps to $40.37
Apprenticeship
First 6 mos.: 70% of trades rate
Second 6 mos.: 72.5% of trades rate
Third 6 mos.: 75% of trades rate
Fourth 6 mos.: 77.5% of trades rate
Fifth 6 mos.: 80% of trades rate
Sixth 6 mos.: 82.5% of trades rate
Seventh 6 mos.: 85% of trades rate
Eighth 6 mos.: 90% of trades rate
Editor’s notes: Mandatory training/meetings: Minimum 2 hours of pay for employee who is directed by employer to attend mandatory training or mandatory meetings on scheduled day off. Standby allowance: 2 hours’ wages at regular rate of pay for each regular working day employee is on call; 3 hours’ for each non-working day employee is on call. Training and development: $2,000 (or more) in any 24-month period for employees to attend training and development activities that are not required for performance of their positions.
