UNIFORMS, PROTECTIVE CLOTHING & EQUIPMENT. 22.1 In accordance with the Health and Safety in Employment Act and associated Regulations, the Employer shall ensure that employees are provided with any protective equipment required to ensure the safety of employees while at work. The maintenance and replacement of this equipment is the responsibility of the Employer. 22.2 Suitable protective clothing shall be made available by the Employer where the nature of a particular duty or duties would either continuously or intermittently render an employee’s personal clothing or uniform to excessive soiling or damage or expose the employee’s person to injury or excessive discomfort through biological, chemical or physical hazards. Such protective clothing shall remain the property of the Employer, and, as such, shall be laundered or otherwise cleaned free of charge. 22.3 Where the employer requires an employee to wear a specified uniform, or where the nature of the work requires the wearing of protective or work clothing, sufficient sets of the specified uniforms, protective or work clothing will be supplied to each employee and will subsequently be laundered and maintained by the employer subject to fair wear and tear in the service of the employer. 22.4 An employee may at the Employer’s discretion be compensated for damage to personal clothing worn on duty, or reimbursed dry cleaning charges for excessive soiling to personal clothing worn on duty, provided the damage or soiling did not occur as a result of the employee’s negligence or failure to wear the protective clothing provided. 22.5 Where an employee is required to change from their protective or work clothing prior to leaving the employer’s premises, sufficient time will be allowed on duty at the end of each work day or shift to change clothing.
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Samples: Collective Employment Agreement, Collective Employment Agreement, Collective Employment Agreement
