SAHO/SGEU Memorandum of Agreement Summary
15-Jan-2014
SAHO/SGEU Memorandum of Agreement Summary
A Memorandum of Agreement has been signed between SAHO and SGEU.Highlights of the agreement are as follows:
Wages & Term – April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2017
April 1, 2012 – 2.0%
April 1, 2013 – 1.5%
April 1, 2014 – 1.5%
April 1, 2015 – 1.55%
April 1, 2016 – 1.95%
- Wage increases are applied to the base rate of pay.
- Market Supplements and/or Market Adjustments will be added to base rates of pay after applicable wage increases have been applied.
All employees as of the date of ratification are eligible for retroactive wage adjustments on all paid hours.
Employees who have moved between employers shall apply to previous employers for that portion of the retroactivity.
Employees who have retired shall be eligible for retroactive wage increases based on all paid hours up to and including the date of retirement.
Employees who have been laid off subsequent to April 1, 2012 and are unable to maintain employment and are not on staff upon ratification will be eligible for retroactive wage increases based on all paid hours up to and including the date of lay-off.
Employees who have passed away on or after April 1, 2012 are eligible for retroactivity. The estate of the employee must contact the employer and apply for such retroactivity.
Shift Differential
- The shift differential will increase from two dollars and ten cents ($2.10) per hour to two dollars and forty three cents ($2.43) per hour upon ratification.
- Effective October 1, 2014, the shift differential will increase from two dollars and forty three cents ($2.43) per hour to two dollars and seventy five cents ($2.75) per hour.
- Effective April 1, 2015, there will be an increase to the weekend differential from one dollar and eighty cents ($1.80) per hour to two dollars and twenty five cents ($2.25) per hour.
- Upon ratification all employees assigned to standby shall receive a standby premium as follows:
i) Three dollars and fifteen cents ($3.15) per hour for each hour on standby on a regular working day with a minimum payment for eight (8) hours; (increased from $2.19 per hour)
ii) Four dollars and twenty five cents ($4.25) per hour for each hour on standby on days off and Statutory Holidays with a minimum payment for eight (8) hours (increased from $4.12 per hour)
- Upon ratification, OTFT EMS employees shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for each hour on Standby with a minimum payment of eight (8) hours each day on Standby (increased from $4.12 per hour)
- Effective April 1, 2014, a monthly car allowance will be provided to employees required to use their vehicle for Employer business on a continuing basis, as follows:
(i) Fifty dollars ($50.00) per month for an employee who performs work during the month; plus
(ii) Nine dollars ($9.00) for each day the employee is required to use his or her own vehicle to perform work; to a maximum of one hundred dollars ($100) in a calendar month.
Northern District Allowance
| Location |
June 30, 2013 |
October 6, 2013 |
October 5, 2014 |
October 4, 2015 |
|
| 1 | $216.00 | $ 218.50 | $222.00 | $225.50 | |
| 2 | 134.50 |
136.00 |
138.50 |
141.00 |
|
| 3 | 90.00 |
91.00 |
92.50 |
94.00 |
Retention Strategies
| April 1, 2010 |
April 1, 2013 |
|
| La Loche, Sandy Bay |
$3,500.00 | $3,800.00 |
| Ile a la Crosse |
$3,335.99 | $3,635.00 |
| Buffalo Narrows | $3,064.00 | $3,364.00 |
| Cumberland House | $2,805.00 | $3,005.00 |
| Beauval | $2,082.00 | $2,282.00 |
| Creighton | $1,782.00 | $1,932.00 |
| La Ronge |
$1,750.00 | $1,900.00 |
Letter of Understanding regarding Extended Health and Enhanced Dental Benefits
The Employer assures that the current level of benefits provided, pursuant to the Extended Health and Enhanced Dental Benefits Plan as of April 1, 2012, will continue at no cost to the employee, until March 31, 2017.
Professional Fees- Effective April 1, 2014 the maximum reimbursement will be two hundred dollars ($200) increased from one hundred and seventy-five ($175) or the professional fee established by the professional association required to practice as of April 1, 2012, whichever is greater.
- Reimbursement for Employees working in two (2) or more Geographic Health Regions shall receive entitlement under this provision from a maximum of one (1) Employer only.
- The Employer assures that the current level of benefits provided, pursuant to the Extended Health and Enhanced Dental Benefits Plan as of April 1, 2012, will continue at no cost to the employee, until March 31, 2017.
Employees offered additional shifts in error can have those shifts changed within the posted and confirmed period without triggering overtime provided the Employer makes the change within fourty-eight (48) hours of offering the additional shift(s) in error. In the event that an error is discovered more than fourty-eight (48) hours after it was made, the Employer shall offer the work to the more senior Employee while honoring the commitment made to the more junior employee.
In order for an employee to receive pay for a missed shift they must work the hours associated with that pay. As well, an employee should not lose out on opportunities to work additional hours. Where an error is made in the allocation of relief work at regular rates of pay, the following process will be followed:
- The error must be discovered and reported no later than twenty-one (21) calendar days after the work is performed. If not raised within the twenty-one (21) calendar days, no remedy will be provided.
- If an error is raised and confirmed, the matter will be remedied by the employee selecting and working a replacement supernumerary shift of equivalent value, in the same department and classification, within eight (8) weeks of the missed shift, or within another time period as agreed to by the employee and the employer.
- If the employee would have normally been offered another shift at the same time as the replacement shift, the employee will work the regular shift and be offered another opportunity to select a replacement supernumerary shift of equivalent value, in the same department and classification within the next four (4) week period following the date of the conflicting shifts, or within another time period as agreed to by the employee and the employer.
