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APPENDIX A
UPSTATE/WEST NEW YORK DISTRICTS
WAGE SCHEDULE
All wage schedules will be adjusted to reflect the 2013 National Bargaining Agreement.
Appendix A
Upstate/West New York Districts
Section 1 New Part-Time Cover Driver
A) Seniority part-time employees can work as Temporary Cover
drivers as coverage for seniority full-time package and feeder drivers.
B) The rate of pay for part-time employees working as Temporary
Cover drivers shall be the greater of their part-time rate or the following
rates:
Start: 60% of the prevailing top rate for package or feeder classification.
After one (1) year: 65% of the prevailing top rate for package or
feeder classification.
After two (2) years: 75% of the prevailing top rate for package or
feeder classification.
Part-time employees who are working as Temporary Cover drivers
as of the effective date of this agreement shall keep their current
cover rate or be slotted in this new progression, whichever is higher.
Casuals still remaining on the payroll who have job opportunity
dates shall be paid 65% of the top rate of package drivers.
C) Part-time employees working as Temporary Cover drivers will
do so for a minimum of one week at a time and will be guaranteed
a minimum of two days planned coverage per week that they are
working as a Temporary Cover driver. All part-time cover drivers
working in the package or feeder classification shall be guaranteed
eight (8) hours per day.
D) Part-time employees working as Temporary Cover drivers shall
maintain their part-time benefits and entitlements.
E) Part-time employees who successfully complete a thirty (30) day
qualification period working as a Temporary Cover driver will not
have to complete another probationary period as a successful bidder
on a regular full-time package or feeder driver job in their classification.
friend) Part-time employees working as Temporary Cover drivers who
successfully bid a regular full-time delivery or feeder driver job
shall maintain their rate of pay until the progression as detailed in
Article 41 surpasses this rate.
G) 1) As of the date of ratification, all existing preferred casuals
who do not have a part-time seniority date shall be assigned a fulltime
job opportunity date to be thirty (30) days from their date of
hire. For these affected employees, this date will be used solely for
the attainment of full-time job opportunities.
2) Casual employees will earn one roving holiday for every fifty
(50) days worked in the current year.
3) Casual employees who accept a full-time seniority position shall
be paid the appropriate part-time rate of pay based on their job
opportunity date and remain at that rate until the progression as
detailed in Article 41 surpasses that rate.
4) If a casual employee is injured on the job, the Employer will
make Health and Welfare contributions until the employee returns
to work, not to exceed four (4) weeks.
H) Once an employee qualifies as a coverage driver, they will be
assigned to a specific center for coverage opportunities. Vacations
will be picked on that center’s vacation list. No part-time cover
driver shall have the right to pick vacation ahead of a package driver
in that center.
I) If an employee disqualifies him/her self during the 30-day qualifying
period, he will be prohibited from re-qualifying for two years.
If the Company disqualifies him, he will be prohibited from qualifying
for one year. No employee will receive more than two opportunities
to qualify.
Employees that have previously qualified as part-time cover drivers
who no longer wish to be part-time cover drivers and return to their
status as inside part-time employees shall provide their immediate
manager with proper written notice sixty (60) days in advance of the
date they wish to remove themselves as a part-time cover driver. Any
employee that removes themselves as a part time cover driver shall do
so for a period of three (3) years and lose all wage progression credits
and will have to requalify prior to assuming any future driving position.
No more than 10% of a center’s part time cover drivers shall be
allowed to disqualify themselves in a 12 month period.
J) The Company maintains the right to hire Temporary Cover drivers
from the outside after exhausting qualified inside part-timers.
Such employees shall be hired when there is a need for part time
cover drivers but no need for inside part time employees.
Employees hired under this provision shall work as PT cover drivers
as outlined above in Appendix A, however, the company is
under no obligation to provide them with inside work opportunity.
Outside Temporary Cover Drivers shall gain seniority pursuant to
Article 57 section 1 (b) of the Upstate West New York Supplemental
Agreement. Should Part time inside positions become available
such positions will be offered to outside Temporary Cover drivers
in seniority order prior to hiring from the outside. This opportunity
will be extended to each employee on a one-time basis. Should the
employee decline the opportunity the employee will have no future
right to work as an inside PT employee.
