City of Regina

Renewal agreement: Effective Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2021. Signed on May 1, 2019.

Shift premium: Employee will be paid minimum rate for position when employee replaces another employee temporarily in in-scope position for 1 or more consecutive working days. One-half regular rate for layover time for operators operating at special events, such as football games, where they are required to layover. $2 per hour during time instructing and training employees while instructing and training new operators, once they have attained SGI (Saskatchewan Government Insurance) license. $2 per hour for instructing and training new dispatchers into service. $1 per hour to shift employees whose majority of regular hours of work fall between 3 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Paid holidays: 11 days.

Vacations with pay: 0.058 hours per hour of service to start, 0.077 hours per hour of service after 7 years, 0.096 hours per hour of service after 15 years, 0.115 hours per hour of service after 23 years for permanent employees. 0.061 hours per hour of service to start, 0.082 hours per hour of service after 7 years, 0.103 hours per hour of service after 15 years, 0.123 hours per hour of service after 23 years for permanent employees who work 8.5 hour day or 7.83 hour day on 5/5/4 work week.

Overtime: Time and one-half for all work after 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week; double time after 2 hours of overtime. Time and one-half for work after 10 hours (for employees who work 10-hour shifts); double time after 2 hours of overtime. Double time for work after 7 hours and 20 minutes per day or 36 hours and 40 minutes per week for office employees.

Medical benefits: Employer pays 100% of premiums. Employer will provide $300 per year (previously $200 per year) health spending account.

Dental: Employer pays 50% of premiums, employee pays 50% of premiums.

Sick leave: .069 hours for each hour of service, maximum of 1,598 hours for schedule C employees; 1,744 hours for all other employees.

Life insurance: All employees, as condition of employment, will apply for group life insurance.

Bereavement leave: 3 days for death in immediate family (spouse, child, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild. Immediate family will also include someone for whom employee had equivalent step, common-law, in-law relationship). 1 additional day to employees that must travel more than 300 kilometres outside Regina; 2 additional days to employees that must travel out of country. employee may utilize up to 2 of 3 days’ leave — to be taken within 1 calendar year following initial leave — for deferred ceremonies. 1 day when employee is designated executor of estate.

Seniority – recall rights: 12 months if is not employed in union position.

Call-in pay: Minimum 4 hours at regular rate for each call-in; double time for each hour employees works overtime on call-in.

Probationary period: 1 year for new employees; 6 months for existing employees who move into different positions.

Discipline: Sunset clause is 24 months for employee complaint file, including discipline letter and accompanying documentation.

Severance: 2 1/3 days of per for each year of service for all employees, hired prior to Jan. 1, 2014, who have been employed for 10 or more years.

Safety shoes: $150 every year for 1 pair of non-slip (to oils and wet surfaces) black polishable footwear (as per dress code) for schedule A. $225 every year for 1 pair of CSA-approved for schedule B. $100 each year or $200 every 2 years for schedule C.

Uniforms/clothing: Operators will be issued: 2 pair of pants; 3 shirts; 1 shorts; 1 suitable winter hat; 1 pair socks; 1 suitable winter jacket; 1 pair of footwear. Dispatchers will be issued: 2 pair of pants; 4 shirts; 1 suitable winter hat; 1 suitable winter jacket; 1 pair of footwear. Service and information clerks, revenue and service clerks will be issued: 2 pair of pants; 3 shirts; 1 pair of footwear. Employer will supply class 1 high visibility jackets for each journeyperson, apprentices, utility person (will be replaced every 5 years). Employees in following classifications will be supplied with 5 clean rental high visibility coveralls or smocks weekly: journeyperson; journeyperson apprentice; tradesperson; utility person 2. All other employees will be supplied with 1 clean rental coverall or smock weekly.

Sample rates of hourly pay (current):

Supervisor of equipment and maintenance

Step 1: $34.60

Step 2: $36.33

Step 3: $38.15

Electronic technician

Step 1: $28.87

Step 2: $30.28

Step 3: $31.82

Night foreman

Step 1: $28.76

Step 2: $30.21

Step 3: $31.72

Transit fleet parts storekeeper

Step 1: $27.58

Step 2: $29.41

Step 3: $31.26

Tradesperson

Step 1: $27.53

Step 2: $28.92

Step 3: $30.34

Assistant storekeeper

Step 1: $25.98

Step 2: $27.58

Step 3: $29.41

Transit fleet parts person

Step 1: $24.52

Step 2: $25.98

Step 3: $27.58

Maintenance clerk

Step 1: $23.07

Step 2: $24.52

Step 3: $25.98

Utility person 2

$21.23

Step 1: $24.45

Step 2: $25.68

Step 3: $26.95

Journeyperson

Step 1: $31.43

Step 2: $32.76

Step 3: $33.96

Journeyperson apprentice

Step 3: $30.21

Bus operator

Student: $17.94

Probationary: $21.75

Second year: $24.18

Third-year: $26.15

Fourth-year: $28.43

Dispatcher

First-year: $31.28

Second-year: $33.11

Editor’s notes: Transportation allowance: Transit employees will be allowed at all times to ride on department vehicles, free of charge, whether in uniform or not, upon production of pass to operator. Service adjustment: Employees with 5 years of service will receive $0.20 per hour above their current rate of pay. Service pay: Employees hired prior to Jan. 1, 2014, will receive service pay of $5 per month after 5 years of service with department; additional $5 per month service pay for each successive 5-year period. Charter trips: Double time, minimum 4 hours, for each assignment for employees who are assigned to charter trips between midnight and 5 a.m. Spread pay: $0.60 per day for 10.01 to 11 hours; $1.05 per day for 11.01 to 12 hours; $2.55 per day for 12.01 to 13 hours; $3.30 per day for 13.01 to 14 hours; $4.40 per day for 14.01 and over. Payment in lieu of coffee breaks, rest periods: All transit operators will receive — in lieu of coffee breaks and rest periods — 50 hours of straight-time wages on first pay day in December. Operating licenses allowance: On Jan. 1 of each year, employees will receive $25 allowance.