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Member Update: Wednesday, December 16, 2004
One month’s retro pay
to be delayed, Calgary Health Region tells AUPE members
CALGARY — Because of technical difficulties with a new
privatized payroll system, AUPE Local 095 members will not receive
one month
of retroactive pay that they are owed on their paycheques tomorrow,
the Calgary Health Region says.
In a letter posted on health facility bulletin boards today, Calgary
Health Region People & Learning Vice-President Margaret Munsch
said that close to 3,500 AUPE General Support Service members would
not receive one month of eight months’ retroactive pay they
are owed on their Dec. 17 paycheques.
The outstanding amount will be paid on Dec. 31, 2004, Munsch said.
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The impact per employee is approximately $50 — $100 gross,” the
letter states.
Retroactive pay is owed to the GSS employees as a result of a wage-reopener
agreement negotiated by AUPE and ratified by Local 095 members
on Nov. 9, 2004.
Under the deal, members in most job classifications were eligible
for a three-per-cent wage increase retroactive to April 1, 2004.
Food services, laundry and housekeeping employees were eligible
for a one-per-cent lump-sum payment.
These wage-reopener pay increases were not part of the ongoing
Bill 27 negotiations for a region-wide agreement for all members
of the new Calgary GSS bargaining unit that was formed as a result
of the legislation and runoff votes in the spring and summer of
2003.
The health region apologized to employees for the problem.
Click here to read Munsch’s
letter.
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