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The parties agree that it is in their mutual interest to ensure that the Vancouver Brewery attains the highest level of production required to maximize our ability to meet our customers' needs.
To this end, the following understanding is entered into.
The signing of this Letter of Understanding shall supersede certain provisions of the current collective agreement only as they apply to employees working on the week-end work force. (W.W.F.).
Benefit service employees assigned to WWF will be credited with 40 hours worked for provision of the current collective agreement with respect to:
Benefit service employees assigned to WWF will be credited with 40 hours worked for provision of the current collective agreement with respect to:
The Company will post a notice in each affected department and solicit the names of those benefit service employees who wish to be considered for the W.W.F. Management agrees to backfill the WWF vacant Mechanic and/or Electrician positions in the rotation.
When considering applications, the qualifications of the applicant shall be given primary consideration. If there is any choice between two or more applicants having sufficient qualifications, the most senior applicant shall be given the position on the W.W.F.. If the required skill sets are not present on the W.W.F., the Company can schedule the most junior employee(s) to work the W.W.F. schedule. Employees assigned to the W.W.F. will be replaced on the conventional schedule (5 days eight hour shift schedule) by the appropriate relief individual.
Once selected, all benefit service employees will remain on the W.W.F. for the duration of the period required, up to a maximum of six (6) months.
Notwithstanding the above, any employee may be removed from the W.W.F. for reasons of ill health or cause.
In the event the W.W.F. is discontinued, temporarily or permanently, employees will return to their previous posted jobs and the relief employees will be re-assigned accordingly.
Delete the following wording: Benefit service employees working on the W.W.F. shall be allowed to take vacation during the effective period of the W.W.F. schedule as follows: a maximum of one (1) millwright, one (1) electrician, and one (1) oiler will be allowed on vacation at the same time.
Add the following wording: Benefit service employees working on the W.W.F. shall be allowed to take vacation during the effective period of the W.W.F. schedule, as per the collective agreement nor more than 14 % of the benefit service employees on the W.W.F. will be allowed on vaction at the same time.
An employee who is scheduled off on vacation will have his vacation entitlement reduced by forty (40) hours.
Operations employees on WWF will be paid under the sick leave plan for qualified absence due to illness or non-occupational accident, according to the number of hours missed at 1.54 times the straight time hourly wage. For instance, an employee who is absent for a twelve (12) hour shift will have his sick bank entitlement reduced by 18.5 hours.
Maintenance employees on WWF will be paid under the sick leave plan for qualified absence due to illness or non-occupational accident, according to the number of hours missed at 1.41 times the straight time hourly wage. For instance an employee who is absent for a twelve (12) hour shift will have his sick bank entitlement reduced by 16.9 hours
An eligible employee on the W.W.F. who is absent due to sickness or non-occupational accident will be paid under the weekly indemnity plan after a waiting period of two (2) consecutive scheduled twelve (12) hour shifts.
If an Operations benefit service employee becomes so ill that he cannot complete his shift after reporting for work in good health, he will be sent home and paid for the balance of his shift at 1.54 times his straight time hourly rate. Such time paid will be deducted from his sick leave entitlement.
If a Maintenance benefit service employee becomes so ill that he cannot complete his shift after reporting for work in good health, he will be sent home and paid for the balance of his shift at 1.41 times his straight time hourly rate. Such time paid will be deducted from his sick leave entitlement.
Bereavement leave will be paid at the straight time hourly rate, up to a maximum of twenty-four (24) hours. Employees can draw on their vacation entitlement to ‘top up’ to 37 hours paid for Operations and 45 hours paid for Maintenance.
Eligible employees shall be paid eight (8) hours at straight time in addition to the pay for their week-end work.
Operations Employees working on WWF will be paid at the rate of 1.54 times the straight time hourly wage rate for all scheduled hours worked to a maximum of thirty-seven (37) hours pay per week.
Maintenance Employees working on WWF will be paid at the rate of 1.41 times the straight time hourly wage rate for all scheduled hours worked to a maximum of forty-five (45) hours pay per week.
There shall be three fifteen (15) minute breaks and a thirty (30) minute lunch break in each twelve (12) hour shift. The regular eight (8) hour shift will remain at the normal two fifteen (15) minute breaks and a thirty (30) minute lunch break.
The Company will provide a minimum of three (3) weeks written notice of its intention to work employees on the W.W.F. or to return to a conventional eight (8) hour shift schedule. Employees scheduled to commence work on W.W.F. will have the option to work the week prior or after the completion of the W.W.F. Delete the following: not work the week prior to the first scheduled shift of W.W.F.. Employees will return to their regular shift schedules on the Monday shift after the last scheduled W.W.F. shift.