Common use of ARTICLE TERM Clause in Contracts

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall continue in effect until September and shall continue automatically thereafter during annual periods of one (1) year each, unless either party notifies the other in writing, within ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date, that it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement, or completion of the proceedings prescribed under the Ontario Labour Relations Act, and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. OF THE UNION Classification Step -May-09 -May-I Dietary, Laundry Housekeeping Aides Probation Start Year Year Attendant Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Cook Probation Start Year Year Probation Start Year Year Wage Progression: In accordance with Article Health Care Aide: Health Care Aide classification for Health Care Aide Certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide Course. Activity Aide Certified: Activity Aide certified classification for Activity Aides with Health Care Aide Certificate or Recreation Certificate. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. The Employer agrees to use its best efforts to ensure that agency staff will not work full shifts as replacements due to illness, etc., while bargaining unit employees remain on half shifts, provided such employees inform the Employer in advance of their availability. special consideration. F OF THE UNION DATED this day of LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL ICANADA Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if it is practical to schedule staff to be off every other weekend. Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if staff can be scheduled to work ten days in a pay period without any lay-off or reduction in hours of work. Management will endeavour to schedule staff to be off every other weekend, and to work ten days in a pay period if and when the Ministry of Health funds additional staffing subject to the Employers' deployment needs for professional staffing.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall be effective from May and shall continue in effect until September and shall continue automatically thereafter during annual periods of one (1) year each, each unless either party notifies the other in writing, within writing ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date, date that it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to the amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, negotiations an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall be automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement, agreement or completion of the proceedings prescribed under the Ontario The Labour Relations Act, of The Province of Ontario and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. OF THE DATED at Hamilton as of the of UNION Classification Step -May-09 -May-I Dietary, Laundry Housekeeping Aides Probation Start Year Year Attendant Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Cook Probation Start Year Year Probation Start Year Year Wage ProgressionLOCAL IC XXXXX NURSING HOME SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL Note: In accordance with Article Health Care Aide: Health Care Aide classification Premium for Health Care Aide Certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide Course. Certificate or Activity Aide Certified: Activity Aide certified classification for Activity Aides with Health Care Aide Certificate or Recreation Certificateto be fifteen (15) cents per hour. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one (1) annual increment for each one (1) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY AGREEMENT (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix "A" of the Terms of Reference signed by the parties) This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The parties agree that the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirements of the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved. DATED this of INCORPO N The Employer agrees and the Union agree that all provisions of the Collective Agreement to use its best efforts which this addendum is attached, shall be incorporated into the addendum and be applicable to ensure part-time employees as hereinafter defined, unless such provisions are specifically excluded in their application to part-time employees. The Employer and the Union agree that agency staff will not work full shifts the following Articles of the Collective Agreement shall apply to part-time employees: Same as replacements due to illness, etcfull-time Agreement., while bargaining unit employees remain on half shifts, provided such employees inform the Employer in advance of their availability. special consideration. F OF THE UNION DATED this day of LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL ICANADA Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if it is practical to schedule staff to be off every other weekend. Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if staff can be scheduled to work ten days in a pay period without any lay-off or reduction in hours of work. Management will endeavour to schedule staff to be off every other weekend, and to work ten days in a pay period if and when the Ministry of Health funds additional staffing subject to the Employers' deployment needs for professional staffing.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall be effective from October I, O and shall continue in effect until September and shall continue automatically thereafter automaticallythereafter during annual periods of one (1I) year each, each unless either party notifies the other in writing, writing within ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date, date that it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement, Agreement or completion of the proceedings proceeding prescribed under the Ontario The Labour Relations Act, of the Province of Ontario, and the The Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration DisputesArbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. Present parking privileges to be maintained. INWITNESS WHEREOF THE PARTIES THIS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT ON THIS DAY OF THE UNION Classification Step -May-09 -May-I Dietary, Laundry Housekeeping Aides Probation Start Year Year Attendant Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Act. Aide Probation Start Year Year Cook Probation Start Year Year Probation Start Year Year Wage Progression: In accordance with Article Health Care Aide: Health Care Aide classification for Health Care Aide Certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by On Behalf of the Employer. The Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to Union On behalf of the Health Care Aide Course. Activity Aide Certified: Activity Aide certified classification for Activity Aides with Health Care Aide Certificate or Recreation Certificate. Employer The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one ) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix “A” of the Terms of Reference signed by the parties) This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The Employer agrees to use its best efforts to ensure parties agree that agency staff will not work full shifts as replacements due to illness, etc., while the classifications in the collective agreements constitutefemale job classes and the current differentials betweenjob classifications in the bargaining unit employees remain shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiatedon December The parties further agree that the following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on half shifts, provided such employees inform the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of the “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. The parties agree that there was no requirementfor a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirements of the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved. DATED this 2nd day of December,-2004 On Behalf of the Union On behalf of the Employer in advance of their availability. special consideration. F OF THE UNION DATED this day of LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNIONI CANADA WHEREAS the Ontario Labour Relations Board did on the of July, LOCAL ICANADA certify the Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if it is practical to schedule staff to be off every other weekend. Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if staff can be scheduled to work ten days in a pay period without any lay-off or reduction in hours as the bargaining agent for certain employees of work. Management will endeavour to schedule staff to be off every other weekendthe Employer, and whereas the parties hereto have agreed to work ten days in enter into a pay period if and when Collective Agreement upon the Ministry of Health funds additional staffing subject to the Employers' deployment needs for professional staffingterms hereinafter set forth.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall continue in effect until commence on the 1st day of May and end on the September and shall continue automatically thereafter during annual periods of one (1) from year eachto year thereafter, unless either party notifies gives notice in writing to the other in writing, within not less than thirty days nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date, expiry date hereof of that it desires party's intention to amend or terminate this AgreementAgreement or to negotiate revisions thereto. In the event Dated at this day of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement, or completion of the proceedings prescribed under the Ontario Labour Relations Act, and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. OF FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION Classification Step -May-09 -May-I Dietary, Laundry Housekeeping Aides Probation Start Year Year Attendant Act. Cook Start t Nurse Aide Probation Start Year Year Act. Activity Aide Probation Start Year Year Cook Probation Start Year Year Probation Start Year Year Wage Progression: In accordance with Article Health Care Aide: Star Health Care Aide classification Health Care Aide premium for Health Care Aide Certificate certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by the Employer. The premium will be cents per hour above the applicable Nurse Aide classification. The parties agree to recognize the Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide Coursecourse. Activity Aide Certified: Activity Aide certified classification for Activity Aides with Health Care Aide Certificate Lead Hand If a nursing aide or Recreation Certificatehealth care aide is required by the Employer to act as a Lead Hand on the night shift (2300 to 0730) he or she shall receive premium of cents per hour. Maintenance I Is a person who holds at least a Journeyman's certificate status in a skilled trade. A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the above hourly rates. The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one annual increment for each one year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. PAY EQUITY AGREEMENT This Pay Equity Agreement applies to all the employees represented by the Union employed by the Employer. The Employer agrees to use its best efforts to ensure parties agree that agency staff will not work full shifts as replacements due to illness, etc., while the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit employees remain shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on half shifts, provided such employees inform December The parties further agree that the Employer following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the following dates: Any new classifications that may be created in advance the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of their availabilitythe “new classification” clauses of the Collective Agreements. special consideration. F OF THE UNION DATED this day of LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL ICANADA Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if it is practical to schedule staff to be off every other weekend. Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if staff can be scheduled to work ten days in The parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay period without equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of Settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any lay-off or reduction and all requirementsof the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in hours of work. Management the complete will endeavour to schedule staff to be off every other weekend, have been paid and to work ten days in a pay period if and when the Ministry of Health funds additional staffing subject to the Employers' deployment needs for professional staffingPay Equity will have been achieved.

ARTICLE TERM. This Agreement shall continue in effect until September April and shall continue automatically thereafter during annual periods of one (1) year Iy)ear each, unless either party notifies the other in writing, writing within ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date, date that it desires to amend or terminate this Agreement. In the event of such notification being given as to amendment of the Agreement, negotiations between the parties shall begin within fifteen (15I5) days following such notification. If, pursuant to such negotiations, an agreement on the renewal or amendment of this Agreement is not reached prior to the current expiration date, this Agreement shall automatically be extended until consummation of a new Agreement, Agreement or completion of the proceedings prescribed under the Ontario Labour Relations Act, of the Province of Ontario, as amended, and the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, as amended, whichever should first occur. OF THE UNION Classification Step -May-09 -May-I Dietary, Laundry Housekeeping Aides Probation Start Year Year Attendant Actfifteen (15) days of receipt of the signed Agreement. Aide Probation Start Year Year ActThe Agreement will be printed and distributed by whomever is responsible within a further thirty (30) days. Aide Probation Start Year Year Cook Probation Start Year Year Probation Start Year Year Wage Progression: In accordance with Article Health Care Aide: Health Care Aide classification for Health Care Aide Certificate or equivalent presently being recognized by DATED this day of LOCAL May May May May May May A Pay Equity adjustment of per hour has been incorporated in the Employerabove hourly rates. The Personal Support Worker education accreditation is recognized as equivalent to the Health Care Aide Course. Activity Aide Certified: Activity Aide certified classification for Employees who work as Activity Aides with and who hold a Health Care Aide Certificate or Recreation CertificateCertificate shall receive the Personal Support Worker rate. Classifications shown on the wage grid are for continuity only. Not all classifications shall be filled. Recosnition of Previous Experience The Employer will recognize recent related experience on the basis of one (1) annual increment for each one (1) year of service up to the maximum of the grid. Part-time service shall be recognized on the basis of eighteen hundred (1800) hours paid in previous employment equals one (1) year of service. It shall be the responsibility of a newly hired employee to provide reasonable proof of recent and related experience in order to be considered for a salary increment, and if she fails to do so she shall not be entitled to recognition. Note: The Employer agrees Parties agree to use its best efforts to ensure abide by the Letter of Understanding RE: Environmental Services dated October (for the Nursing Homes listed in Appendix "A" of the Terms of Reference signed by the parties) The parties agree that agency staff will not work full shifts as replacements due to illness, etc., while the classifications in the collective agreements constitute female job classes and the current differentials between job classifications in the bargaining unit employees remain shall be maintained, except as it may be modified in collective bargaining. The parties agree that the payment in which exceeded the employers minimum obligation by carries forward and captures the obligations up to and including the expiry dates of the prior collective agreements. The adjustments in the Memorandum of Settlement dated December resolve all current outstanding issue of Pay Equity and the obligations under the Proxy Pay Equity plan for and to the expiry of the agreements negotiated on half shifts, provided such employees inform December The parties further agree that the Employer following additional pay equity adjustments resolve the remaining pay equity obligations and will be paid on the foliowing dates: Agreement renewal date in advance cents per hour Agreement renewal date in cents per hour Any new classifications that may be created in the bargaining unit shall be deemed to achieve pay equity through the application of their availabilitythe "new classification" clauses of the Collective Agreements. special considerationThe parties agree that there was no requirement for a pay equity adjustment at times other than those as identified in the Memorandum of settlement The parties agree that this agreement satisfies any and all requirements of the Pay Equity Act and following the final pay equity adjustment in the complete will have been paid and Pay Equity will have been achieved. F ON BEHALF OF THE UNION DATED this day of LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL ICANADA Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if it is practical to schedule staff to be off every other weekend. Union Committee will study time schedule to determine if staff can be scheduled to work ten days in a pay period without any lay-off or reduction in hours of work. Management will endeavour to schedule staff to be off every other weekend, and to work ten days in a pay period if and when the Ministry of Health funds additional staffing subject to the Employers' deployment needs for professional staffing.this