Caesars Windsor

Renewal agreement: Effective April 4, 2018 to April 3, 2021. Signed on April 4, 2018.

Shift premium: $1 per hour for committee persons. $4 per hour for crew trainer in tipping classifications; $1 per hour in non-tipping classifications.

Paid holidays: 11 days, plus 3 paid personal holidays (if employee has not scheduled days by last day of first pay period in March in any year, it will be paid out before March 31).

Vacations with pay: 1 day per 200 paid hours or 4% to start, 2 weeks or 4% after 1 year, 3 weeks or 6% after 5 years, 4 weeks or 8% after 10 years, 5 weeks or 10% after 20 years. Under exceptional circumstances, unused vacation may be held over to next vacation year. When transferring out of dealer classification, employee will receive $5.50 vacation top-up for vacation hours earned but not utilized to date of transfer. Top-up is paid at time vacation is taken.

Overtime: Time and one-half for work after 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week.

Dental: Coverage of 100% for diagnostic/preventative, restorative, periodontic, endodontics; 50% for crowns and bridges/dentures, with no deductible, maximum $2,000 per year; 50% for orthodontics ($2,200 lifetime maximum with dependants covered until 18 (dependants who are 18 to 25 and are identified under plan as full-time students will be eligible for coverage under orthodontic benefit).

Vision: Coverage of $250 every 24 months, with no deductible. Eye exams will be covered, maximum $85. $700 for laser eye surgery (if laser eye surgery benefit is utilized, employee is excluded from vision plan for 6 years).

Paramedical: $35 per visit, $750 per year maximum for registered massage therapist; $35 per visit, $900 per year maximum for chiropractor, naturopath, speech therapist; $60 per visit, $1,200 per year maximum for psychologist practitioners (including Master of Social Work who is registered social worker); $35 per visit and $1,000 per year maximum for physiotherapist.

Weekly indemnity: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of 66.67% of employee’s weekly earnings, maximum $1,400 per week.

Sick leave: 1 half-day for each month of employment, maximum 5 days per year. May be accumulated, maximum 20 days total. Employee who has accumulated more than 5 days may elect to be paid out from accumulated credits in excess of 5 days, which will be completed on next pay.

LTD: Employer pays 100% of premiums for coverage of 60% of employee’s weekly earnings, maximum $2,750 per week. Dealers, servers, bartenders, transportation attendants, bell persons, door persons, garage attendants, bar porters, bus persons/food runners, coat-check attendants in classifications designated as tipping will receive benefit of 85% of base earnings.

Life insurance: Coverage of $60,000.

Pension: Employer will contribute first 4% of employee’s wages to DC pension plan. Employer will also match employee’s contribution, maximum further 3%. In total, employer may contribute maximum 7% of employee’s wages, provided employee contributes at least 3% of salary.

Bereavement leave: 5 days for death of death of spouse, common-law partner, parent (including current stepparent), sibling (including current stepsister, stepbrother), child (including current stepchild), child of spouse, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchild. 3 days for death of current spouse’s (or partner’s), siblings or parent (including current stepparent, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law), grandparent of current spouse, partner or grandparent of employee. 1 day for death of aunt, uncle, nephew, niece. 1 day unpaid to attend funeral.

Seniority – recall rights: 36 months for layoffs; 20 days for employee transferred out of bargaining unit.

Call-in pay: 4 hours of pay at straight-time hourly rate of pay or applicable overtime rate of pay for all hours worked, whichever is greater, if called in outside of scheduled hours.

Probationary period: 60 days worked in any 12-month period.

Discipline: Sunset clause is 12 months; 6 months for card-swiping infractions.

Safety shoes: Employer will issue voucher worth $120 to each employee every 12 months, that is redeemable at specified, preferred vendor only for CSA-approved footwear. Employees will be eligible for replacement prior to expiration of 12 months for safety shoes due to significant wear and tear.

Uniforms/clothing: Employer will provide employees with protective equipment, devices and safety clothing as prescribed by Occupational Health and Safety Act. Security officers will be provided with uniform belts, pocket masks. Heavy leather belts will be provided for maintenance staff, slot technicians.

Tool allowance: Cooks will be reimbursed $200 for purchase of knives, as required for daily use: 8” to 10” chef’s knife (French knife); 3” to 4” paring knife; sharpening steel; 10” to 12” bread knife/serrated slicer.

Mileage: $0.40 per kilometre for all kilometres driven by employee in own automobile on employer business, not including transportation to and from work.

Sample rates of hourly pay (current):

Table games

Dealer 1 (1 game): $14

Dealer 6 (6 games): $14

Sr. casino maintenance: $20.70

Casino maintenance: $19.10

Gaming administration clerk: $16.79

Slots department

Slot technician 1 (yr. 3): $25.37

Slot technician 2 (yr. 2): $23.22

Casino finance

Count-room attendant: $16.33

Hard-count attendant: $16.33

Impressment attendant: $16.33

Resort-operations cashier: $15.93

Security

Security officer: $17.16

Kitchen

Chef de partie: $18.44

First cook: $16.79

Banquet

Captain: $13.22

Head-banquet porter: $14.82

Maintenance

Carpenter: $31.08

Millwright: $31.03

Painter: $31.03

Pipefitter/plumber: $31.03

Front office/guest services

Guest-services representative-16.96

Housekeeping

Janitor: $15.68

Men’s washroom cleaner: $16.08

Women’s washroom cleaner: $16.08

IT

Computer technician: $18.71

Audio-visual technician: $20.85

Marketing and promotions

Total-rewards representative: $17.28

Total-rewards clerk: $16.33

Casino marketing co-ord.: $17.63

Full-time union representatives/health and safety instructors: $22.85 rising 1 step to $23.10

Editor’s notes: Lunch interruption: During IT computer technician, engineer, security officer’s meal break, radios will remain on. If called away from meal break, employee will be paid 1/2 hour of overtime and given additional time to complete lunch break. Gratuities/gifts: Employees will be permitted to accept unsolicited gifts from patrons, maximum $250 value. Orthotics/orthopaedic shoes: Maximum $450 every 3 years. Childcare: Employer will provide $2,800 per year to employees utilizing childcare. Daily allocations are $12 for full day, $6 for part day. Employer will reserve 50 spots for latch-key, maximum $6 per day, $800 per year. Paid education leave: Employer will pay $0.03 per hour per employee for all compensated hour into Unifor Paid Education Leave Program.