Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut | (14 municipal employees) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), as represented by its agent Nunavut Employees Union (NEU)
Renewal agreement: Effective April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025. Signed on March 16, 2023.
Wage adjustments:
Effective April 1, 2022: 2%
Effective April 1, 2023: 2.5%
Effective April 1, 2024: 3%
Shift premium: Double time for employee who works in emergency under extreme weather conditions.
Paid holidays: 14 days, including Hamlet Day, Nunavut Day, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Sept. 30), plus Christmas Eve (half day); New Year’s Eve (half day).
Vacations with pay: 1 1/2 days per month to start, 1 2/3 days per month after 2 years, 2 1/12 days per month after 10 years, 2 1/2 days per month after 15 years. Employees are not permitted to carry over more vacation leave credits than can be earned in 1 fiscal year. Vacation leave credits exceeding 1-year entitlement will be liquidated in March.
Overtime: Time and one-half, double time after 4 hours of overtime or work on Sunday or day subsequent day of rest.
Medical benefits: Northern Employee Benefits Services (NEBS) group benefit plan.
Sick leave: 1 1/4 days per month.
Pension: Northern Employee Benefits Services (NEBS) pension plan.
Bereavement leave: 6 days for death in immediate family (father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, common-law spouse, child, stepchild, adopted child, grandparent, grandchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in- law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, any relative residing in employee’s household). 1 day for death of aunt, uncle, niece, nephew.
Call-in pay: Greater of compensation at appropriate overtime rate or compensation equivalent to 4 hours’ pay at straight-time rate.
Probationary period: Probation is 9 months (except for foreman and recreation leader which will have be 12 months) and periods may be extended by 30 days.
Safety shoes: $200 for summer CSA-approved work boots. $300 for winter CSA-approved work boots.
Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide and replace summer leather gloves and winter insulated gloves. Employer will reimburse employees, up to indicated maximum, for following items: $100 for summer coveralls; $450 for winter coveralls.
Tool allowance: $0.25 per hour ($10 per week) for mechanic, assistant mechanic, hamlet maintenance man.
Sample rates of hourly pay (current):
Step 1
Administration staff (37.5 hours per week)
Hamlet clerk typist: $28.74
Lands officer: $28.03
Economic development officer: $28.03
Maintenance staff (40 hours per week)
Hamlet foreman A: $40.08
With trade certificate B: $43.78
Maintenance person: $36.63
Lead mechanic: $45.05
Assistant mechanic: $33.04
Heavy equipment operator: $35.67
Municipal-services driver: $28.78
Fire chief/bylaw officer: $29.60
Janitor: $28.14
Recreation leader: $34.42
Recreation facility maintainer: $25.42
Casual labourer: $25.11
Casual municipal truck driver: $26.11
Casual heavy-equipment operator: $27.12
Water and sewer helper: $25.11
Building foreman A: $40.08
With trade certificate B: $43.78
Editor’s notes: Special leave: 1 half-day for each month in which employee received pay for at least 10 days as special leave credits, maximum 22 days. Medical travel leave: 6 days per year for employee who is going to medical centre or escorting dependant, spouse, immediate family member or other community member. Traditional harvesting leave: 3 days with pay, 1 day without pay per fiscal year to employee.
