205 Benefits and Sick Leave |
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| 205.01 | The Employer shall contribute on a fifty percent (50%) employer/fifty percent (50%) employee cost sharing basis with regular full-time, part-time employees working thirty-seven-and-a-half (37½) hours bi-weekly or more, and Employees with terms of one year or more towards the total cost of premiums of: Alberta Health Care Insurance, Extended Health Care Plan, Group Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Short Term Sickness Plan, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and a Dental Plan. With specified exceptions, participation in all benefit plans is compulsory for all eligible employees. |
| 205.02 | The Employer will contribute a matching of up to five percent (5%) gross earnings for each regular full-time and regular part-time employee and employees with terms of one year or more, to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan held in the Employer's name. Employee contributions will be made by bi-weekly payroll deduction. |
| 205.03 | Where the Employees will be engaged for periods in excess of three (3) months, to a maximum of twelve (12) months, the Employer shall contribute on a fifty percent (50%) employer/fifty percent (50%) employee cost sharing basis with Term Employees towards the total cost of premiums of: Alberta Health Care Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, and limited Short Term Sickness Plan. |
| 205.04 | Occupational Disablement
Any Employee who develops or experiences a physical or medical condition causing persistent distress or discomfort may seek an alternative work assignment in an alternate available position with the Employer. |
| 205.05 | Occupational Illness or Injury
Any Employee who, due to exposure to chemicals or materials regularly used or handled during the course of his regular duties, develops an adverse health effect as a result may seek an alternate assignment or position with the Employer. In no event shall the implementation of this Article displace a Regular Employee, however, the Union agrees to waive posting requirements. |
| 205.06 | Short Term Sickness Plan
Sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) pay shall be accumulated at the rate of one-and-one-quarter (1 ¼) working days for each full month of employment to an allowance of fifteen (15) working days per year. Sick leave exceeding the accumulated days, up to a maximum of one hundred and five (105) days will be paid at the rate of eighty percent (80%) of the regular pay. A medical certificate may be required with respect to any sickness-related absence exceeding three (3) working days. |
| 205.06.01 | One third (1/3) of sick leave unused in the previous calendar year can be carried over to the current calendar year up to a maximum of five (5) days per year. This will enable an Employee to have a maximum allowance of twenty (20) sick days per year. |
| 205.07 | The Employer recognizes that an employee may use his or her own accumulated short term sick leave to attend to the sickness of a family member. |
| 205.08 | Long Term Disability
All Regular Employees shall be entitled to sixty-five (65%) percent of their regular pay subject to the conditions of the carrier following one hundred and five (105) days elimination under the Short Term Sickness Plan. |
| 205.09 | This Article does not apply to Casual Employees. |
| 205.10 | The Employer and the Union agree to maintain a joint committee to review benefit plans at Glenbow.
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