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 May 2 2002: Article 4
Category Issues
Corrections Bargaining Unit
The Corrections Category bargaining team is unanimous in recommending that members in the Category ratify the Category agreement.
General Wage Increases:
General wage improvements for workers in the Corrections Bargaining Unit are:
· an increase totalling 8.45 per cent over three years, plus
· the creation of a new step on the pay grid for all classifications in the Correctional Bargaining Unit, to be paid at a rate five per cent above the existing top rate. This means that if you’ve been at the top of the pay grid for at least one year, you get an immediate five per cent raise over and above
the 8.45 per cent, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2002.
Special case: Probation Officers
Effective Jan. 1, 2002, the employer shall establish a Probation Officer 3 classification, with a top pay rate of $1,111.83 per week. In addition, all rates in the salary range for the Probation Officer 1 and 2 classes and the new Probation Officer 3 will receive a four per cent pay increase.
New job class: Youth Worker
The employer shall establish a new Youth Worker classification. Youth Workers will receive enhanced training and development.
Callback
The Corrections team agreed to the same language as the Unified table on the issue of callback. Where employees are contacted by the Employer prior to their shift, but not required to physically attend work, they are entitled to receive a minimum of four hours’ pay at time-and-a-half. Under the existing
collective agreement (the one that expired Dec. 31, 2001), the employee would be entitled to the four hours’ overtime each time the employer called. The tentative agreement deletes that interpretation. In the tentative agreement, all calls that do not require the employee to physically attend work during the four-hour period are to be treated as a
single call-back for pay purposes.
Ministry Employee Relations Committee
Between rounds of bargaining, the Corrections Ministry Employee Relations Committee has been an effective representative for the vast majority of workers in the Corrections Category. In the tentative agreement, the terms of reference for the Corrections MERC become an appendix to the contract, adding an extra
level of enforceability to the work of this important committee.
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