POLICE WORKING AGREEMENT Between the BARRIE
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POLICE WORKING AGREEMENT Between THE BARRIE POLICE SERVICES BOARD (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) OF THE FIRST PART And THE BARRIE POLICE ASSOCIATION (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”) OF THE SECOND PART JANUARY 1, 2019 TO DECEMBER 31, 2023 1 Contents 1.0 DEFINITIONS ......................................................................................................................... 4 2.0 ARTICLE 2 – PURPOSE .......................................................................................................... 4 3.0 ARTICLE 3 – RECOGNITION .................................................................................................. 4 4.0 ARTICLE 4 – MANAGEMENT RIGHTS .................................................................................... 4 5.0 ARTICLE 5 – ASSOCIATION RIGHTS ...................................................................................... 5 6.0 ARTICLE 6 – SALARIES .......................................................................................................... 6 7.0 ARTICLE 7 – HOURS OF WORK ............................................................................................. 6 8.0 ARTICLE 8 – OVERTIME ........................................................................................................ 9 9.0 ARTICLE 9 – OUT OF TOWN ASSIGNMENTS ....................................................................... 12 10.0 ARTICLE 10 – JOB POSTINGS, PROMOTIONS AND EVALUATIONS ..................................... 13 11.0 ARTICLE 11 – PLAINCLOTHES DUTY ................................................................................... 13 12.0 ARTICLE 12 – PAID DUTY & VOLUNTARY SERVICE SUPPLEMENT ...................................... 13 13.0 ARTICLE 13 – CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 14 14.0 ARTICLE 14 – ESCORTS ....................................................................................................... 15 15.0 ARTICLE 15 – COURSES, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, ETC .................................................. 15 16.0 ARTICLE 16 – LEGAL FEES AND COSTS ............................................................................... 17 17.0 ARTICLE 17 – ASSOCIATION MEETINGS, CONVENTIONS AND NOTICES ............................ 18 18.0 ARTICLE 18 – VACATIONS .................................................................................................. 19 19.0 ARTICLE 19 – STATUTORY AND PAID HOLIDAYS ................................................................ 20 20.0 ARTICLE 20 – STATUTORY LEAVE ....................................................................................... 21 21.0 ARTICLE 21 – COMPASSIONATE CARE OR CAREGIVER LEAVE ........................................... 21 22.0 ARTICLE 22 – PREGNANCY/MATERNITY AND PARENTAL LEAVE ....................................... 22 23.0 ARTICLE 23 – FAMILY LEAVE/BEREAVEMENT LEAVE ......................................................... 24 24.0 ARTICLE 24 – SICK LEAVE ................................................................................................... 25 25.0 ARTICLE 25 – EDUCATION LEAVE ....................................................................................... 28 26.0 ARTICLE 26 – WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ........................................................................ 29 27.0 ARTICLE 27 – HEALTH AND WELFARE ................................................................................ 29 28.0 ARTICLE 28 – PENSIONS ..................................................................................................... 31 29.0 ARTICLE 29 – LOCKERS AND PERSONNEL FILE ................................................................... 32 30.0 ARTICLE 30 – GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE .............................................................................. 33 31.0 ARTICLE 31 – POLICE MEMBER EXPERIENCE PAY .............................................................. 34 32.0 ARTICLE 32 – RECLASSIFICATION ....................................................................................... 35 2 33.0 ARTICLE 33 – ACTING PAY .................................................................................................. 36 34.0 ARTICLE 34 – SHIFT PREMIUM ........................................................................................... 36 35.0 ARTICLE 35 – FIRST CLASS CONSTABLE SPECIALTY PAY ..................................................... 36 36.0 ARTICLE 36 – SUCCESSION PLANNING ............................................................................... 37 37.0 ARTICLE 37 - INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONTINGENCY BANKS ......................................... 38 38.0 ARTICLE 38 – TERM OF AGREEMENT ................................................................................. 38 APPENDIX “A” ............................................................................................................................... 40 APPENDIX “B” ................................................................................................................................ 41 3 1.0 DEFINITIONS Except where a contrary intention appears, in this Agreement: 1.1 Chief – means the Chief of Police, from time to time, of the Service. 1.2 Service – means the Barrie Police Service. 1.3 Police Member – means any person holding rank or classification as set out in Appendix “A” to this Agreement. 1.4 Length of Service – shall mean a police member’s experience as a sworn police member of police service or military police except where a break or lapse in service of two (2) years or more has occurred. In such cases, ‘length of service’ will be calculated using the police member’s return to sworn policing after the lapse. It is the responsibility of the police member to provide written documentation from past employers which will confirm their length of service. 1.5 Seniority – shall mean length of employment with the Barrie Police Service and include all hours accumulated as a full-time police member. Hours accumulated in permanent part-time positions, or contract periods of employment during which the police member becomes a full-time police member will be credited to the police member for amount of vacation entitlement but not apply to the order of draw for vacations. 1.6 Police Act – means the Police Services Act of Ontario, the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act or the Community Safety and Policing Act 2019. 1.7 Vacation – includes annual leave and statutory holiday leave only. 2.0 ARTICLE 2 – PURPOSE 2.1 The purpose of this Agreement is to establish the salaries, hours of work, and other working conditions of the police members covered by this Agreement. 3.0 ARTICLE 3 – RECOGNITION 3.1 The Board recognizes the Association as the exclusive bargaining agent for the police members covered by this Agreement. 4.0 ARTICLE 4 – MANAGEMENT RIGHTS 4.1 The Association recognizes that, subject to the provisions of the Police Services Act, the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act or the Community Safety and Policing Act 2019 as the case may be and the Regulations made thereunder by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, it is the exclusive function of the Board to: 4 4.1.1 Maintain order, discipline and efficiency; 4.1.2 Hire, discharge, direct, classify, transfer, promote, demote or suspend, or otherwise discipline any police member. 4.2 The Board agrees that no police member will be dealt with adversely without reasonable cause, and that it will exercise the functions outlined in Article 4.1.2 without discrimination and in a manner consistent with this Agreement, the Police Services Act, the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act or the Community Safety and Policing Act 2019 as the case may be and the Regulations made thereunder by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 4.3 If a police member claims that the Board has exercised any of the functions outlined in Article 4.1 in violation of this Agreement, then such a claim may be the subject of a grievance under the provisions of the grievance procedure outlined in this Agreement, or the arbitration procedure set out in the Police Services Act, the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act or the Community Safety and Policing Act 2019 as the case may be, or dealt with under the procedures within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ontario Civilian Police Commission as prescribed in the Police Services Act or the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act, as the case may be. 5.0 ARTICLE 5 – ASSOCIATION RIGHTS 5.1 It shall be a condition of employment that all police members, whose salary rates are set out in this Agreement, whether or not they join the Association shall pay to the Association an amount equal to the monthly dues payable to belong to the Association, but, subject to this provision, no police member shall be required to join the Association nor shall any police member be refused to join the Association. 5.2 The Board agrees to deduct an amount equivalent to Association dues and other amounts duly authorized by the Association from the regular pay of each police member and within one month after making each such deduction, pay the sum so deducted to the Association. The Association will save the Board members harmless against any and all claims against it for the deductions made as set out above. 5.3 The Board shall, when remitting such dues and other amounts, provide the Association with the names of the police members from whose pay such deductions have been made, together with the names of any police members who have since last