CUPE Health Care Workers' Council of Unions

LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING #6

BETWEEN

SASKATCHEWAN ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS

AND

THE CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

Re: Vacation Pay on Termination or Retirement

The parties agree that employees on staff as at date of signing formerly covered by the SGEU/PSC, CUPE Local 600/PSC, CUPE Local 600-0 & 600-6/SAHO and SGEU Wascana Rehabilitation Centre/SAHO shall be entitled to vacation on termination or retirement in accordance with Article 100 Vacation Entitlement in the Year of Retirement, Article 16.09d) Separation Allowance, Article 18.12 Vacation on Superannuation or 35 Year Service or Article 18.10 d) Separation Allowance respectively. The following are the provisions of the respective Collective Agreements:

a) SGEU/PSC

Vacation Entitlement in Year of Retirement

Employees leaving the service on or after age sixty-five (65) or at any time following the completion of thirty-five years' service, shall be entitled in the fiscal year of retirement to fifteen (15), twenty (20), twenty-five (25) or thirty (30) days vacation leave or pay in lieu thereof.

b) CUPE Local 600/PSC

Notwithstanding anything contained in any of the foregoing clauses, employees who are superannuated or retired on account of ill health, or at the age of sixty (60) or more years, or after thirty-five (35) years of continuous service, shall be entitled in the vacation year of retirement to three (3) weeks vacation leave, provided, however, that an employee otherwise entitled under the provisions of this agreement to four (4), five (5) or six (6) weeks of vacation leave shall receive the same in the year of retirement. This entitlement shall be in addition to any earned vacation leave credited at the end of the previous vacation year.

c) CUPE Local 600-01 & 6/SAHO

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing clauses, employees who are superannuated or retired before December 31, 2006, on account of ill health or at the age of sixty (60) or more years, or after thirty-five (35) years' continuous service, shall be entitled in the vacation year of retirement to three (3) weeks' vacation leave, provided, however, that an employee otherwise entitled under the provisions of this agreement to four (4) weeks, five (5) weeks or six (6) weeks of vacation leave, shall receive the same in the year of retirement.

d) SGEU/Wascana/SAHO

An employee leaving the facility on or after superannuation age or at any time following completion of thirty-five (35) years of service, shall be entitled in the fiscal year of retirement to vacation leave subject to Article 18.01 or pay in lieu thereof, in addition to vacation earned and not used in advance.

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CUPE Health Care Workers' Council of Unions
3725E Eastgate Drive
Regina, Sask
S4X 1A5

Phone: 1-306-546-2185
Fax: 306-781-8177
Email: Gordon Campbell, President