Document:

Unassociated Document

 

 

LEASE AGREEMENT

 

between

 

Gilles Mazoyer 

 

(the "Landlord")

 

and

Bemag Transformer Inc.

(the "Tenant")

 

for certain premises

 

located at

 

33 Racine Street,

City of Farnham, Province of Québec, J2N 3A3

 

 

Lease Agt - Farnham

PIONEER- BEMAG/VERMONT NIS Client ID 543450-3

Document# 1962156v8

Drafted: June 29, 2011

 

  

  

  

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

	
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS, INTENT AND INTERPRETATION

	
1

	  	
1.1

	
Definitions

	
1

	  	
1.2

	
Freely Negotiated

	
4

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE II LEASE

	
4

	  	
2.1

	
Lease of Premises

	
4

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE Ill TERM

	
4

	  	
3.1

	
Term

	
4

	  	
3.2

	
Option to Extend

	
4

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE IV RENT

	
5

	  	
4.1

	
Base Rent

	
5

	  	
4.2

	
Additional Rent

	
 5

	  	
4.3

	
Operating Expense Estimate

	
 5

	  	
4.4

	
Records

	
6

	  	
4.5

	
Business Taxes

	
6

	  	
4.6

	
Sales and Services Tax

	
6

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE V UTILITIES AND HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING

	
6

	  	
5.1

	
Utilities

	
6

	  	
5.2

	
Building Systems

	
7

	  	  	  	  
	
  ARTICLE VI USE OF BUILDING

	
7

	  	
6.1

	
Use of the Premises

	
7

	  	
6.2

	
Environmental Indemnification

	
7

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE VII MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS

	
8

	  	
7.1

	
Maintenance and Repairs by the Tenant

	
8

	  	
7.2

	
Tenant's Major Work

	
8

	  	
7.3

	
Maintenance and Repairs by the Landlord

	
9

	  	
7.4

	
Right of Inspection

	
9

	  	
7.5

	
Surrender of the Premises

	
9

	  	
7.6

	
Standard of Maintenance

	
10

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE VIII INSURANCE AND INDEMNITY

	
10

	  	
8.1

	
Tenant's Insurance

	
10

	  	
8.2

	
Terms and Conditions of the Tenant's Insurance

	
10

	  	
8.3

	
Landlord's Insurance

	
11

 

  

  

  

 

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE IX DAMAGE, DESTRUCTION AND EXPROPRIATION

	
12

	  	
9.1

	
Destruction of Premises

	
12

	  	
9.2

	
Determination of Damage or Destruction

	
12

	  	
9.3

	
Expropriation

	
13

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE X SUB-LET AND ASSIGNMENT

	
13

	  	
10.1

	
Consent to Sub-let or Assign

	
13

	  	
10.2

	
Permitted Transferee

	
13

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE XI DEFAULT AND TERMINATION

	
14

	  	
11.1

	
Events of Default

	
14

	  	
11.2

	
Re-entry

	
14

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE XII NOTICE

	
15

	  	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE XIII MISCELLANEOUS

	
16

	  	
13.1

	
No Tacit Renewal

	
16

	  	
13.2

	
Entire  Agreement

	
16

	  	
13.3

	
Waiver

	
16

	  	
13.4

	
Liability

	
16

	  	
13.5

	
Governing Law and Severability

	
16

	  	
13.6

	
Successors and Assigns

	
17

	  	
13.7

	
Headings  and Numbers

	
17

	  	
13.8

	
Interpretation

	
17

	  	
13.9

	
Registration of the Lease

	
17

	  	
13.10

	
Election of Domicile

	
17

	  	
13.11

	
Language

	
17

	  	  	  	  
	
SCHEDULE "A" PLAN OF THE PREMISES

	
19

	  	  	  	  
	
SCHEDULE "B" INSURANCE CERTIFICATE

	
20

	  	  	  	  
	
SCHEDULE "C" TENANT'S RESOLUTION

	
21

  

-ii-

  

 

 

THIS LEASE made in the City of Montreal, Province of Quebec, as of the 1st day of July, 2011.

	
BETWEEN:

	
GILLES MAZOYER, businessman, domiciled at 423 ch. Priest, in the City of Sutton, Province of Québec, JOE 2KO,

 

(hereinafter referred to as the "Landlord")

 

PARTY OF THE FIRST PART

 

	
AND: 

	

BEMAG TRANSFORMER INC., a corporation duly Incorporated according to law, having its head Office at 33 Racine Street, in the City of Farnham, Province of Québec, J2N 3A3,

 

(hereinafter referred to as the "Tenant")

 

PARTY OF THE SECOND PART

 

 

 

WHEREAS the Landlord is the owner of the Building (as defined below);

 

WHEREAS the Building is situated on lot SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE {629) of the official Cadastre of Ville de Farnham of the Registration Division of Missisquoi (the "Land");

NOW THEREFORE, THE PARTIES HERETO AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

 

ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS, INTENT AND INTERPRETATION

 

1.1           Definitions

 

When used in this Lease, the following words or expressions have the meanings hereinafter set forth:

 

	
1.1.1

	
"Additional Rent" means collectively  the Operating Expenses and the Taxes;

 

	
1.1.2

	
"Bankruptcy Act" means the Bankruptcy  and Insolvency Act, (Canada), as amended  or replaced from time  to time;

 

	
1.1.3

	
"Base Rent" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.1;

 

	
1.1.4

	
"Building Systems" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.2;

 

  

  

  

 

	
1.1.5

	
"Building" means the  building, situated  on the  Land, bearing  civic address 33 Racine Street, in the  City of  Farnham, Province of Quebec, J2N 3A3, with  all improvements, equipment  and facilities thereon erected or situated from time to time;

 

	
1.1.6

	
"Business" means the designing, producing  and selling  of  medium  and high voltage transformers and line reactors and such other business as the Tenant may operate from time to time in the Premises;

 

	
1.1.7

	
"Civil Code" means the Civil Code of Quebec, as amended from time to time;

 

	
1.1.8

	
"Commencement Date" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1;

 

	
1.1.9

	
"Environment" means soil, land surface or subsurface strata, surface waters (including navigable waters, ocean waters, streams, ponds, drainage basins, and wetlands) ,ground waters, drinking water supply, stream sediments, ambient air (including indoor air), plant and animal life, and any other environmental medium or natural resource, and all sewer systems;

 

	
1.1.10

	
"Environmental Laws" means any and all applicable federal, provincial, municipal, or local laws in force from time to time pertaining to the Environment, Hazardous Substances, pollution or protection of the Environment, and public and occupational health and safety including, without limitation, environmental laws, by-laws, rules, regulations, orders, decrees, codes or policies, rules and guidelines which, although not actually having the force of law, are considered by any competent governmental authorities as requiring compliance as if having the force of law, relating to: (i) on-site or off-site contamination; (ii) chemical substances or products; (iii) Release of Hazardous Substances into the Environment; (iv) the manufacture, processing, use, treatment, storage, transport, packaging, labeling, recycling, disposal destruction, incineration, burial, or handling of Hazardous Substances; and (v) any preventive measures and Remedial Action;

 

	
1.1.11

	
"Event Date" has the meaning ascribed thereto·in Section 9.1;

 

	
1.1.12

	
"Event of Default" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 11.1;

 

	
1.1.13

	
"Extension Period" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.2

 

	
1.1.14

	
"Gross Rentable Area'' means FIFTY-TWO THOUSAND (52,000) square feet comprised of THIRTY THOUSAND (30,000) square feet of ground floor space and TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND {22,000) square feet of mezzanine space;

 

	
1.1.15

	
"GST" means federal Goods and Services Tax;

 

	
1.1.16

	
"Hazardous Substances" means all pollutants, contaminants, chemicals or wastes that pose a risk to human health or the Environment, or any other carcinogenic, mutagenic, ignitable, corrosive, reactive, toxic, infectious, hazardous substances or material (whether solid, liquid or gaseous) including, without limitation, asbestos, petroleum and petroleum based products, urea formaldehyde, polychlorinated biphenyls and bioaerosols;

 

  

-2-

  

 

	
1.1.17

	
"Hypothecary Creditor" means any Person who is the beneficiary of a hypothec affecting the Building or any part thereof;

 

	
1.1.18

	
"Land" means lot number SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE (629) of the official cadastre of the City of Farnham, Division of Missisquoi;

 

	
1.1.19

	
"Lease" means this agreement of lease;

 

	
1.1.20

	
"Lease Year" means, July 1st to June 30th of each year of the Term;

 

	
1.1.21

	
"Operating Expenses" means and includes all costs of cleaning, repairing, maintaining and insuring the Property, the costs for the maintenance, repairs and replacements of capital expenditure nature and of the Structure;

 

	
1.1.22

	
"Option to Extend" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.2;

 

	
1.1.23

	
"Premises" means the Building and the Land;

 

	
1.1.24

	
"QST" means Quebec Sales Tax;

 

	
1.1.25

	
"Release" means any sudden, intermittent or gradual release, spill, leak, pumping, addition, pouring, emission, emptying, discharge, injection, escape, leaching, migrating, disposal, dumping, deposit, spraying, burial, abandonment, incineration or seepage, whether accidental or intentional;

 

	
1.1.26

	
"Remedial Action" means any action required under Environment Laws to (i) clean up, remove, treat or in any other way deal with Hazardous Substances in the Environment; (ii) prevent any Release of Hazardous Substances where such Release would constitute a violation of Environmental Laws; or (iii) perform remedial studies, investigations, restoration and post-remedial studies, investigations and monitoring on, about or in connection with the Property;

 

	
1.1.27

	
"Sales Tax" means GST and QST with respect to any amount payable by the Tenant to the Landlord under this Lease;

 

	
1.1.28

	
"Structural" means relating to the Structure;

 

	
1.1.29

	
"Structure" means, the foundations, structural steel, columns and beams, supports, bearing walls, weather walls, exterior walls and assemblies, cement floors, subfloors and the roof (including membrane and surface covering), and parts of the central, mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems which are in the cement floor, within the concrete, support or cinderblock walls or in the structural or cement ceilings;

 

  

-3-

  

 

	
1.1.30

	
"Taxes" means all real estate, municipal,  school, water  taxes and garbage collection taxes payable in relation to the Premises;

 

	
1.1.31

	
"Term" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1;

 

	
1.1.32

	
"Utilities" means electricity (including, subject to the provisions of Section 5.1, any emergency electricity service), gas, water, fuel, steam, power and all other utilities consumed in any part of the Premises and for any exterior lighting.

 

	
1.2

	
Freely Negotiated

 

Each party  acknowledges  that  it has had  the  opportunity to  consult  with  legal counsel in connection with  the negotiation and execution  of this Lease. Each of them acknowledges that all provisions of this Lease have been freely  and fully  discussed and negotiated  and that  this Lease does not constitute a contract of adhesion.

 

ARTICLE II

 

LEASE

	
2.1

	
Lease of Premises

 

The Landlord hereby leases to the Tenant, and the Tenant hereby leases from the Landlord, the Premises, on a net net basis.

 

ARTICLE III

 

TERM

	
3.1

	
Term

 

Unless sooner terminated or extended pursuant to any other provision hereof the Term shall commence on July 1, 2011 (the "Commencement Date") and shall terminate on June 30, 2014, unless the Tenant exercises its Option to Extend, in which case the Term will expire on June 30, 2016.

 

	
3.2

	
Option to Extend

 

If not in default under the terms of this Lease, the Tenant shall have the right, exercisable by written notice to the Landlord not less than SIX (6) months before the expiry of the Term (the "Tenant's Notice"), to extend the Term of the Lease (the "Option to Extend") for a further period of TWO (2) years (the "Extension Period"). Should the Tenant exercise said option to extend the Term, this Lease shall be extended to the end of the Extension Period upon the same terms and conditions as contained in this Lease, save and except (i) for the Base Rent which shall be increased by the annual increase in CPI between the third and fourth year of the Term and between the fourth and the fifth year of the Term and (ii) there will be no further right to extend or renew the Extension Period.

 

  

-4-

  

 

ARTICLE IV RENT

 

4.1           Base Rent

 

The Tenant covenants and agrees to pay, without set off or abatement, in advance, on the first (1st) day of each month during the Term, from and after the Commencement Date, to the Landlord at the address mentioned in Article XII, a base rent of four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50) per square foot of the Gross Rentable Area being a total of one hundred thirty-five thousand dollars ($135,000) per annum (the "Base Rent") payable in equal consecutive monthly installments of eleven thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($11,250) plus Sales Tax, without demand, set-off, abatement, deduction or compensation.

 

4.2 Additional Rent

 

In addition to the Base Rent, the Tenant covenants and agrees to pay in advance, on the first (1st) day of each month during the Term, from and after the Commencement Date, to the Landlord, the Additional Rent provided for as follows, without demand, set-off, abatement, deduction or compensation, except as set out elsewhere in this Lease or if the Tenant is deprived of peaceable enjoyment of the Premises:

 

	
4.2.1

	
an amount  equal to  one twelfth (1/12)  of  the Taxes payable  during  each year of the Term; and

 

	
4.2.2

	
an amount  equal to one twelfth (1/12)  of the  estimated  Operating  Expenses for each Lease Year.

 

4.3           Operating Expense Estimate

 

Prior to the commencement of each Lease Year, the Landlord shall estimate the amount of Operating Expenses for such Lease Year and notify the Tenant in writing of such estimate, providing reasonable details as to the breakdown and calculation thereof. The estimate may not exceed the Operating Expenses for the previous year by more than ten percent (10%). As soon as practicable during each Lease Year, the Landlord shall provide the Tenant with reasonable evidence of the amount of Taxes payable by the Tenant and the monthly installments of Additional Rent shall be adjusted accordingly. For the first (1st) Lease Year, the total Operating Expenses are estimated to be ten thousand dollars ($10,000), plus the cost of insuring the Building which is estimated to be fourteen thousand five hundred dollars ($14,500), payable in equal consecutive installments of one thousand two hundred eight dollars and thirty-three cents ($1,208.33). The Landlord warrants that the type of coverage and amounts of the insurance on the Building during the Term will be substantially the same as the type of coverage and amounts of insurance that were in place during the twelve (12) month preceding the Commencement Date. For the first (15t) lease Year, the Taxes are twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000), subject to adjustment once the landlord receives the Tax bills from the City of Farnham for the 2012 calendar year, payable in equal consecutive monthly installments of two thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($2,250).

 

  

-5-

  

 

Within  SIXTY (60) days after the expiration  of each lease  Year, the landlord shall make a final determination of Operating Expenses based on the actual costs incurred, and shall so notify  the Tenant, providing copies of invoices and sufficient  details as to the breakdown  and calculation so that  the Tenant may verify the  landlord's determination. If there has been a shortfall, the Tenant shall pay to the landlord the amount  of such shortfall  within  thirty  (30) days of delivery of the landlord's Notice. Any overpayment may be paid by the landlord, without interest, to the Tenant without interest within THIRTY (30) days after delivery of the landlord's notice.

 

	
4.4

	
Records

 

The landlord shall keep accurate and proper  records of all costs, expenses and disbursements with  regard  to  the  Taxes and operating Expenses for  a period  of three  (3) years and shall provide  copies thereof  to the Tenant, if required  by the Tenant. Payment by the Tenant shall not  prejudice  the Tenant's  right  to  claim and recover  from  the  landlord any amount  paid in excess of the amount actually due to the landlord, or any other right or remedy available to the Tenant.

 

	
4.5

	
Business Taxes

 

The Tenant shall pay to the  competent authority, as and when  due, all business taxes which may be levied or imposed upon the Premises or upon the business carried on therein or which may be payable by the Tenant as tenant or occupant thereof.

 

	
4.6

	
Sales and Services Tax

 

The Tenant shall pay to the landlord all Sales Taxes calculated in accordance with  applicable legislation.

 

ARTICLE V

 

UTILITIES AND HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING

 

	
5.1

	
Utilities

 

During the Term, the Tenant shall pay directly  to  each relevant  Utility  company  all costs of Utilities used or consumed in or with respect to the Property.

 

  

-6-

  

 

5.2         Building Systems

 

The Tenant shall repair and maintain at its cost, when necessary, the systems of the Building, including without limitation the heating, ventilating and air conditioning system and all plumbing, mechanical, electrical and environmental systems (collectively called the “Building Systems") which are not part of the Structure. The Tenant shall maintain the Building Systems so that they continue to conform to specifications determined and approved by the Landlord, acting reasonably, but shall be appropriate for the Tenant's operations and intended use of the Premises and shall be maintained by the Tenant in good working order. The Landlord warrants that at the Commencement Date, all of the Building Systems conform to the Landlord's specifications and are in good working order and do not require any repair or replacement.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

USE OF BUILDING

 

6.1         Use of the Premises

 

The Premises shall be used for manufacturing, assembly, storage, research and development, offices, warehousing, parking spaces and for any ancillary operations  and for any other purpose permitted by applicable law in compliance with law and municipal by-laws.

 

The Landlord hereby declares and warrants  that the Premises can be used for the purpose  for which they  are being used on the Commencement Date and that  they have been used for the purposes of operating the Business for at least the last ten (10) years.

 

6.2          Environmental Indemnification

 

	
6.2.1

	
The Tenant shall be responsible for and shall indemnify the Landlord from any and all loss, liability, prosecution, order, claim, demand, notice, action, judgment, damage, fine or expenses (including cost of investigation and defense, legal and other professional fees and expenses, interest and penalties and any failure (collectively, the “Damages") directly resulting from or related to any and all environmental conditions it causes subsequent to the Commencement Date, including without limitation any failure by the Tenant or its officers, directors or employees to comply with applicable Environmental Laws, except those environmental conditions existing in whole or in part on the Commencement Date, whether or not known at such time, and affecting the Property.

 

	
6.2.2

	
Notwithstanding any provision of this Lease to the contrary, including without limitation the obligation of the Tenant to indemnify pursuant to Section 6.2.1 of this Lease, the Landlord acknowledges, agrees and undertakes that, if, as a result of any non­ compliance with Environmental Laws respecting the Premises, the cause of which arose prior to the Commencement Date, the Tenant is or is likely to be required under Environmental Law or by any governmental authority to take any remedial action with respect to such non-compliance, the Landlord shall, with the prior approval of the Tenant (except if required by law), do what is necessary, at its sole cost and expense, to ensure that such remedial action is carried out as soon as is reasonably possible (but in any event within the time limits prescribed by applicable law including without limitation any and all Environmental Laws) and in accordance with all applicable laws, including without limitation any and all Environmental Laws.

  

-7-

  

 

	
6.2.3

	
Notwithstanding any provision of this Lease to the contrary, including without limitation the obligation of the Tenant to indemnify pursuant to Section 6.2.1 of this Lease, the Tenant acknowledges, agrees and undertakes that, if, as a result of any non-compliance with Environmental Laws respecting the Premises, arising after the Commencement Date, the Landlord is or is likely to be required under Environmental Law or by any governmental authority to take any remedial action with respect to such non­ compliance, the Tenant shall, with the prior approval of the Landlord (except if required by law), do what is necessary, at its sole cost and expense, to ensure that such remedial action is carried out as soon as is reasonably possible (but in any event within the time limits prescribed by applicable law including without limitation anyand all Environmental Laws) and in accordance with all applicable laws, including without limitation any and all Environmental Laws.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS

 

7.1         Maintenance and Repairs by the Tenant

 

The Tenant shall also be responsible, at its cost, for the maintenance of the interior of the Building to keep it in a good state of cleanliness, a state similar to what it is at the Commencement Date, reasonable wear and tear excepted.

 

7.2 Tenant's Major Work

 

The Tenant shall not, without obtaining the Landlord's prior written approval, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, make any alteration, replacement, change, improvement or major repair in or to the Premises in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) (collectively, the "Tenant's Major Work") during the Term and any extension or renewal thereof. The Landlord may request detailed plans and specifications from the Tenant if the Tenant's Major Work affects the structure of the Building.

 

The Landlord shall not be liable for the payment of any expenditures, or for work or material related to the Tenant's Major Work. All of the Tenant's Major Work is at the Tenant's expense and the Tenant is solely and fully liable to the contractors for material furnished and for work executed, and for the supplying of services and materials. If a privilege or any other charge is registered against the Premises because of an action or an omission on the part of the Tenant, the Tenant shall at its expense have such privilege or charge discharged and cancelled immediately.

  

-8-

  

 

During the Tenant's Major Work, the Landlord, its employees and agents may enter the Premises during normal business hours upon reasonable prior notice to examine the Tenant's Major Work, the whole provided that such inspections shall not interfere with the Tenant's operations.

 

7.3           Maintenance and Repairs by the Landlord

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Landlord shall be solely responsible, at its sole cost and expense, for all maintenance, repairs and replacements of the Structure, of the Premises and to make all repairs of a capital expenditure nature.

 

The Landlord shall make all necessary maintenance, repairs and replacements to the extent required to keep the Structure in a state of good repair and maintenance in accordance with the standards for a similar industrial buildings in the City of Farnham.

 

Should the Landlord need to effect any repairs or replacement to the Structure, the Landlord shall send to the Tenant a prior written notice of at least fifteen (15) business days, (or at any time during an emergency), and shall proceed with the works diligently and shall minimize interference with the Tenant's operations within the Premises and the Tenant's quiet enjoyment of the Premises.

 

7.4           Right of Inspection

 

During the Term, the Landlord, its employees and agents may enter the Premises provided the Landlord has given to the Tenant prior written notice of at least seven (7) days, during normal business hours, or in the case of emergency, at any time, to examine the state of repair of the Premises and the equipment, fixtures and improvements therein, the whole provided that such inspections or work shall not interfere with the Tenant's operations and to make such alterations or repairs as the Landlord shall deem necessary acting reasonably for the safety or preservation or proper administration or improvement of the Premises. All lack of repair and maintenance found upon such examination and for which the Tenant is responsible pursuant to this Lease shall, within thirty (30) days after written notice to the Tenant, be properly and sufficiently repaired by the Tenant, to the extent possible in the reasonable opinion of the Tenant.

 

7.5           Surrender of the Premises

 

Subject to Section 7.2 hereof, at the expiration of the Term or earlier termination of this Lease, the Tenant will surrender the Premises in a condition and state of repair substantially equivalent to the one existing on the Commencement Date, except for reasonable wear and tear and except for repair which is the responsibility of the Landlord hereunder. The Tenant will surrender all keys for the Premises to the Landlord at the place then fixed for the payment of Rent and will inform the Landlord of all combinations of locks, safes and vaults, if any, in the Premises. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Lease, the Tenant shall be entitled, at its option, at the expiration of the Term or earlier termination of this Lease, to remove from the Premises any of its equipment, machinery, improvements, fixtures or installations (even if same have been permanently affixed to the Building), provided the Tenant repair any damages cause by such removal which shall be to the Landlord's satisfaction (provided that the Tenant not be required to expend more than what is commercially reasonable in the circumstances), normal wear and tear excepted.

 

  

-9-

  

7.6         Standard of Maintenance

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Lease, the Tenant shall not be obliged to keep the Premises in a condition better than the condition it was kept prior to the Commencement Date.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

INSURANCE AND INDEMNITY

 

8.1         Tenant's Insurance

 

The Tenant shall, throughout the Term, at its sole cost and expense, take out and keep in full force and affect the following insurance with reputable insurers:

 

	
8.1.1

	
"all-risk" tenant insurance, including the perils of flood and fire, upon property of every kind and description owned by the Tenant, or for which the Tenant is legally liable, or installed by or on behalf of the Tenant and which is located within the Premises, in amounts not less than the full replacement cost, in each case, thereof;

 

	
8.1.2

	
comprehensive general liability insurance including but not limited to personal injury liability, contractual liability, contingent employer's liability, non-owned automobile liability and owners' and contractors' protective insurance coverage with respect to the Premises, to the business carried on, in or from the Premises and to the Tenant's use of the Premises, coverage to include the activities and operations conducted by the Tenant and any other person on the Premises and by the Tenant and any other person performing work on behalf of the Tenant and those for whom the Tenant is in law responsible in any other part of the Building. Such policies shall be issued for the global amount as would a prudent tenant of similar premises in the Farnham real estate market would take out and maintain for each occurrence involving bodily injury, death or property damage.

 

	
8.1.3

	
any other  insurance  which may be required from  time  to time  by the Landlord, acting reasonably,   in  accordance  with   Farnham  real  estate   market   standards  for  similar buildings.

 

8.2          Terms and Conditions of the Tenant's Insurance

 

Each insurance  policy  referred to in Section 8.1 shall name the  Landlord  as additional  named insured  as its interest  may appear  and shall contain  a waiver  of any subrogation  rights which the Tenant's insurers may have against the Landlord.  The Tenant agrees to take all measures necessary in order that  any amount  received as compensation  for a claim under "all risk" and comprehensive  general liability  insurance be preferentially applied to the repair of the damage that the Building or the Landlord may have suffered.  The Tenant agrees that the certificate  of insurance  will  be delivered  to  the  Landlord  as soon as practicable  after  the  issuance of  the required  insurance but no later than on the Commencement Date.

 

  

-10-

  

 

The Tenant agrees that certificates of insurance will be delivered to the Landlord within fifteen (15) days from the Landlord's request.

 

	
8.3

	
Landlord's Insurance

 

	
  

	
The  Landlord  shall, throughout the  Term, take  out  and  keep  in  full  force  and  effect  the following insurance with reputable  insurers reasonably acceptable to the Tenant:

 

	
8.3.1

	
"all-risk" insurance, including the perils of fire, upon the Premises, in amounts not less than the full replacement cost thereof; and

 

	
8.3.2

	
comprehensive general liability insurance including but not limited to personal injury liability, contractual liability, contingent employer's liability, worker's compensation liability, non-owned automobile liability and owners' and contractors' protective insurance coverage with respect to the Premises, to the business carried on, in or from the Premises and to the Landlord's use of the Premises, coverage to include the activities and operations conducted by the Landlord and any other person in, on or other Premises and by the Landlord and any other person performing work on behalf of the Landlord and those for whom the Landlord is in law responsible in any other part of the Property. Such policies shall be issued for the global amount of not less than two million dollars ($2,000,000) for each occurrence involving bodily injury, death or property damage.

 

Each insurance  policy  referred to  in Section 8.3 shall name  the  Tenant  as additional  named insured as its interest  may appear and shall contain  a waiver  of any subrogation  rights which the Landlord's insurers may have against the Tenant, its shareholders, directors and employees. The Landlord agrees to take all measures necessary in order  that  any amount  received as compensation  for a claim under "all risk" and comprehensive general liability  insurance be preferentially applied to the repair of the damage that the Building or that the Tenant may have suffered.   The Landlord agrees that  the certificate  of insurance  will be delivered to the Tenant as soon as practicable  after  the  issuance of the  required  insurance  but  no later  than  on the Commencement Date.

  

-11-

  

 

ARTICLE IX

 

DAMAGE, DESTRUCTION AND EXPROPRIATION

 

9.1         Destruction of Premises

 

Should the Premises be destroyed or damaged:

 

	
9.1.1

	
Damage which cannot be repaired within ninety (90) days - if the Landlord, acting reasonably and taking into consideration the nature of the Business, is of the opinion that the damage or destruction is such as to render the Premises wholly unfit for occupancy, or that their utilization is impossible or hazardous, and if in either case the Landlord acting reasonably is of the opinion that the damage cannot be repaired with reasonable diligence within ninety (90) days following the date of the damage or destruction (the "Event Date"). The Tenant may, within fifteen (15) days following the giving of this notice, terminate this Lease by notice to the Landlord to that effect, in which case this Lease shall terminate on the Event Date and the Rent shall be calculated and paid in full to the Event Date. In the event that the Tenant does not terminate this Lease, the Rent shall abate from the Event Date until thirty (30) days after the date on which the Premises have been repaired by the Landlord to the extent that they are ready for the Tenant to install its fixtures, machinery, equipment and installations;

 

	
9.1.2

	
Damage which can be repaired within ninety (90) days - if the Landlord, acting reasonably and taking into consideration the nature of the Business, is of the opinion that the damage or destruction is such as to render the Premises wholly unfit for occupancy, or that their utilization is impossible or hazardous, and if in either case the Landlord acting reasonably is of the opinion that the damage may be repaired by the Landlord with reasonable diligence within ninety (90) days following the Event Date, the Landlord shall send a written notice to that effect to the Tenant within fifteen (15) days following the Event Date and the Landlord shall carry out the necessary repairs to the Premises and the Rent shall abate from the Event Date until thirty (30) days after the date on which the Premises have been repaired to the extent that they are ready for the Tenant to install its fixtures, machinery, equipment and installations.If the Landlord, acting reasonably and taking into consideration the nature of the Business, is of the opinion that the damage can be repaired as mentioned hereinbefore within ninety (90) days following the Event Date that the nature of the damage is such as to render the Premises only partially unfit for occupancy, the Rent shall, until the damage has been repaired, be reduced in the proportion that the part of the Premises rendered unfit for occupancy bears to the total area of the Premises by the Landlord.

 

9.2          Determination of Damage or Destruction

 

In the event that the Tenant, acting reasonably, disagrees with the opinion of the Landlord under Section 9.1above, the Tenant may, at its own cost and expense, retain a qualified expert to determine whether the opinion of the Landlord is reasonable given the nature of the Business and the damage or destruction that occurred, in which event the determination of such expert shall be final and binding on the Landlord and the Tenant.

 

  

-12-

  

 

9.3         Expropriation

 

In the  case of an expropriation or of a taking of possession (“Expropriation")  by a competent authority which, according to the  Landlord or the Tenant both  acting reasonably, renders  the Building  or the Premises unusable, the Landlord or the Tenant may terminate this Lease from the date of the Expropriation by way of a written notice to the other  party.  The Landlord shall promptly advise the Tenant in writing on becoming aware of any such Expropriation receiving notice thereof.   Both  the  Landlord  and the  Tenant  agree to  co-operate  with  each other  in respect  of any expropriation of all or any part of the Premises, so that  each may receive the maximum  award to which each is entitled  by law.

 

ARTICLE X

 

SUB-LET AND ASSIGNMENT

 

10.1         Consent to Sub-let or Assign

 

The Tenant shall have the  right  to assign or transfer  this Lease or sublet the  Premises or any part  thereof or  allow  the  Premises or  any part  thereof to  be used or  occupied  by  another (individually and collectively,  a "Transfer"), provided  in all cases that  the Tenant obtains  the prior  written consent of the Landlord, which shall not be unreasonably  withheld or delayed.

 

10.2         Permitted Transferee

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Lease, the Tenant will have the right to sublet the whole or any part of the Leased Premises, or to assign the Lease without the Landlord's consent to:

 

	
10.2.1

	
any parent, affiliate (as such term is defined in the  Canada Business Corporations Act) or subsidiary of the Tenant; or

 

	
10.2.2

	
a  corporation  formed    by  the   Tenant   and   another(s)   as  a  result   of   a  merger, amalgamation  or any other bona fide corporate reorganization; or

 

	
10.2.3

	
a company whose shares are listed in a. recognized stock exchange; or

 

	
10.2.4

	
any person  who  acquires  all or substantially all of the  Tenant's  assets situated  in the Premises whether directly or indirectly.

 

Notwithstanding the preceding, with respect to  Sections 10.2.1 and 10.2.2, the Tenant is not discharged from its primary  duty as principal debtor  under the Lease for the rest of the Term.

 

  

-13-

  

 

ARTICLE XI

 

DEFAULT AND TERMINATION

11.1         Events of Default

 

Each of  the  following  events  (hereinafter called  an "Event of Default")  shall be  a  default hereunder  by the Tenant and a breach of this Lease:

 

	
11.1.1

	
if the Tenant fails to pay any rent payable or any amount  due pursuant to this Lease as and when the same become  payable and such default  remains  uncured ten (10) days following receipt by the Tenant of a written notice from the Landlord; or

 

	
11.1.2

	
if the Tenant is in default in fulfilling any other term, condition or obligation  of this Lease and the default is not cured within  thirty (30} days of written notice of such default from the  Landlord or such longer period  being necessary to cure such default  provided  it is being remedied diligently  and expeditiously; or

 

	
11.1.3

	
if  the  Tenant or any person  occupying  the  Premises files  any proposal  or makes any assignment for the benefit  of creditors  or any arrangement or compromise  or becomes bankrupt  or insolvent  or takes the benefit  of or becomes subject to any legislation that may be in force relating to bankrupt  or insolvent debtors; or

 

	
11.1.4

	
if any application  or petition or certificate or order is made or granted for the winding­ up  or  dissolution  or  liquidation of  the  Tenant  or its  assets, voluntarily or  otherwise (other  than a voluntary  liquidation or dissolution in the context  of an internal  corporate reorganization) and remains undischarged after a period of fifteen  (15) days; or

 

	
11.1.5

	
if a writ  of  execution  is issued  against  the  goods  or  property of  the  Tenant  in  the Premises or against this Lease and remains uncontested  within the delay permitted by law and/or the writ is not cancelled within thirty (30} days after its issuance; or

 

	
11.1.6

	
if a receiver or a sequestrator  is appointed  for all or any portion of the Tenant1 S property and such appointment remains undischarged after a period of fifteen (15) days.

 

11.2         Re-entry

 

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Landlord may, without prejudice  to any other right  of  the  Landlord  hereunder or  by  law, as the  case may  be, enter  and  repossess the Premises in accordance with  applicable  law, the whole  without the Landlord being considered guilty of trespassing or become subject to any prosecution.

 

  

-14-

  

 

ARTICLE XII

 

NOTICE

Any notice, consent, approval, demand, request or other instrument which may or is required to be given under this Lease shall be in writing and deemed to have been legally delivered if it is delivered  in person or by e-mail or, in the case of a default hereunder, by bailiff, and shall be addressed:

 

	
  

	
To the Landlord:

 

Mr. Gilles Mazoyer

	
  

	
423 ch. Priest

	
  

	
Sutton, Quebec JOE 2KO

 

Fax: •

 

	
  

	

To the Tenant:

 

Bemag Transformer Inc.

	
  

	
33 Racine Street

	
  

	
Farnham, Quebec H2N 3A3

 

	
  

	
Attention: • 

Fax:  •

 

	
  

	

With a copy to:

 

Pioneer Power Solutions Inc.

	
  

	
400 Kelby Street, gth  Floor

	
  

	
Fort Lee, NJ 07024

	
  

	
USA

 

Attention: Mr. Nathan Mazurek

Fax: •

 

or  at such other  place as either  party  may  designate  to  the  other  in the  manner  provided hereinbefore.

 

Any  notice  sent  by  e-mail  shall be  deemed  to  have  been  given  and  received  on  the  day following the date of transmission.   Any notice  given in person or by bailiff  shall be deemed to have been given the day of its delivery.

Any notice  of default  shall be sent on the  same day by bailiff  as well as by e-mail, and such notice of default  shall be deemed to have been given on the date of delivery by bailiff.

  

-15-

  

 

ARTICLE XIII

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

	
13.1

	
No Tacit Renewal

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Civil Code, there shall be no tacit renewal of this Lease. Should the Tenant remain in possession of the Premises after the expiration of the Term or of any renewal thereof without the written consent of the landlord, such occupation shall be on a monthly basis at a monthly rate equal to one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the monthly installment of Rent payable for the last month preceding the expiration of the Term or Extension Period, as applicable, without prejudice to the Landlord's right to re-enter and take possession of the Premises and remove the Tenant therefrom, without notice or indemnity to the Tenant, and without prejudice to the Landlord's other recourses hereunder or by law.

 

	
13.2

	
Entire Agreement

 

This lease together with the schedules referred to herein set forth the entire agreement and understanding between the parties concerning the lease of the Premises, and the Tenant acknowledges that there have been no promises, representations, agreements, conditions or understandings, either oral or written, express or implied, collateral or otherwise, between the Landlord and the Tenant. Except as otherwise expressly provided, no subsequent alteration, amendment, change or addition to this Lease shall be binding upon the Landlord or the Tenant unless in writing and duly signed by the Tenant and the Landlord.

 

	
13.3

	
Waiver

 

The waiver by either party of any breach of any term, obligation or condition herein contained is not deemed to be a waiver of such term, obligations or condition or of a subsequent breach of the same or of any other term, obligation or condition herein contained. No obligation, term or condition of this Lease will be deemed to have been waived by either party unless the waiver is in writing, signed by such party.

 

	
13.4

	
Liability

 

Should more than one person as the Tenant sign this lease, each of them shall be solidarily liable to the Landlord for the payment of Rent and the performance and observance of the terms and conditions of this Lease, without the benefits of division, discussion or subrogation.

 

	
13.5

	
Governing Law and Severability

 

This Lease will be interpreted and governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. If for any reason whatsoever any provision or any part of any provision of this lease, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is to any extent held or rendered invalid, unenforceable or illegal, then such provision or part in question shall be deemed to be independent, severable and divisible from the remainder of the Lease and its invalidity, unenforceability or illegality shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the Lease or any part thereof and such prov1s1on or partial prov1s1on shall continue to be applicable to and enforceable against any other person or circumstance other than those to which it has been held or rendered invalid, unenforceable or illegal.

 

  

-16-

  

 

	
13.6

	
Successors and Assigns

 

All rights and liabilities herein granted to or imposed upon the respective parties hereto extend to and bind the successors and assigns of the Landlord and the permitted successors and assigns of the Tenant, as the case may be.

 

	
13.7

	
Headings and Numbers

 

The headings, captions, section numbers, article numbers and table of contents appearing in this Lease are inserted only as a matter of convenience and in no way define, limit or describe the scope or intent of this Lease or the section of the Lease to which they relate, or otherwise in any way affect this Lease.

 

	
13.8

	
Interpretation

 

The words "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and similar expressions used in any Section or Subsection of this Lease relate to the whole of this Lease and not to that Section or Subsection only, unless the context otherwise requires. Where required by the context hereof the singular shall include the plural and the neuter gender, the masculine or feminine.

 

	
13.9

	
Registration of the Lease

 

The Tenant may register the present Lease by notice pursuant to Article 2999.1 of the Civil Code at the Land Registry Office for the Registration Division of Missisquoi provided the Tenant does not publish any of the financial terms of this Lease.

13.10 Election of Domicile

 

The parties herein hereby elect domicile in the District of Montreal, where any and all legal proceedings by either party against the other shall be instituted.

 

	
13.11

	
Language

 

The parties acknowledge having expressly required that this Lease and all documents relating thereto be drawn in English.

 

Les parties déclarent avoir expressément requis que ce Bail et tous les documents s'y rapportant soient rédigés en anglais.

 

  

-17-

  

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF:

 

The Landlord has executed this Lease at the City of Montréal, Province of Québec, as of the date first written above.

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	
/s/ (not legible)

	 	 	
/s/  Gilles Mazoyer

	 
	
Witness

	 	 	
GILLES MAZOYER

	 

 

 

 

The Tenant has executed this Lease at the City of Montréal, Province of Québec, as of the date first written above.

 

 

 

	 	 	BEMAG TRANSORMER INC.	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	

/s/ (not legible)

	 	per:	
/s/ Nathan Mazurek

	 
	
 

	 	 	
Nathan Mazurek

	 

 

 

  

-18-

  

 

SCHEDULE "A" PLAN OF

THE PREMISES

 

  

  

  

 

SCHEDULE "B"

INSURANCE CERTIFICATE

 

  

  

  

 

SCHEDULE "C"

TENANT’S RESOLUTIONUnassociated Document

 

	 	 	 	 
	
Work

	 	
CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT

	 
	
Quebec::  

	 	 	
15415- 'I

	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	
Subject:

	
Collective agreement (R)

	 
	

W certificate:

	
DQ-2010-3485 N° dossy of accreditation: AM-1003-0159

	
EMPLOYER

 

TRANSFORMER BEMAG INC.

 

33, STREET RACINE 

FARNHAM OC J2N 3A3

 

 

Branch of industry: Deprived

 

 

	
ASSOCIATION

 

QUÉBÉCOIS TRADE UNION OF THE 

EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEES OF SERVICE, 

LOCAL SECTION 298 (FTQ)

 

565, BOULEVARD CRÉMAZIE IS, OFFICE 4300

MONTREAL QC H2M 2V6

 

 

Affiliation:   Federation of the Workers and Workers of Quebec

	

	
Date signature: 2010-06-03

Date deposit:    2010-06-07

	
Number of

Paid employees : 55

	
Date beginning: 2010-06-03

Expiration date: 2013-03-15

	
Remarque :

	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	
Guy Layerdière

	
(418} 646-6365 2010-06-10

	 	 	
Employee (E) with the emission

	
Telephone Date

	 	 	 	 

 

 

Person in charge of documents in labor relations

Direction of information on work

Ministry of Labor

200, way Holy-Foy, is staged

Quebec (Quebec), G1R 5S1

Telephone: (418) 643-4907

Fax: (418) 644-6969

 

  

  

  

 

 

COLLECTIVE 

AGREEMENT

 

 

	 	
Between: 

	
TRANSFORMER BEMAG INC.

33, street Root

Farnham (Quebec) J2N 3A3

 

Called hereafter: The employer

 

 

	
  

	
And:

	
QUÉBÉCOIS TRADE UNION OF THE EMPLOYEES 

AND EMPLOYEES OF SERVICE, LOCAL SECTION 

298 (FTQ)

565, boul. Crémazie Is, office 4300

Montreal (Quebec) H2M 2V6

 

Called hereafter: The trade union

 

2010

-

2013

 

  

  

  

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

	
1

	
PURPOSE OF AGREEMENT

	

5

	
2

	
DEFINITIONS

	
5

	
3

	
TRADE-UNION RECOGNITION

	
7

	
4

	
MANAGEMENT RIGHTS

	
7

	
5

	
DISCRIMINATION

	
8

	
6

	

TRADE-UNION MEMBERSHIP

	
8

	
7

	

TRADE-UNION MEETINGS

	
9

	
8

	
UNION ACTIVITIES AND FREEDOM OF ACTION

	
9

	
9

	
ABSENCE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

	
11

	
10

	
UNPAID LEAVE

	
12

	
11

	
SENIORITY

	
12

	
12

	
VOLUNTARY CHANGE

	
15

	
13

	
DISCIPLINARY MEASURES

	
18

	
14

	
GRIEVANCES

	

19

	
15

	
WORK HOURS

	
21

	
16

	
OVERTIME

	
22

	
17

	
PAID LEAVES

	
23

	
18

	
HOLIDAYS

	
25

	
19

	
VACATIONS

	
26

	
20

	
SAFETY AND HEALTH

	
27

	
21

	
PAYMENT OF WAGES

	
29

	
22

	
TRAINING

	
31

	
23

	
LAY-OFF NOTICES

	
32

	
24

	
RESTROOMS

	
32

	
25

	
PARKING

	
32

	
26

	
PERSONAL VEHICLE

	
 33

	
27

	
APPENDICES AND LETTERS OF AGREEMENT

	
33

	
28

	
SUBCONTRACTING

	
 33

	
29

	
ACQUIRED PRIVILEGES

	
34

	
30

	
SOLIDARITY FUNDS FTQ

	
34

	
31

	
INSURANCES

	
 34

	
32

	
SICK PAY

	
35

	
33

	
TERM OF AGREEMENT

	
 36

	  	
APPENDIX A - TITLES OF EMPLOYMENT, RATE AND SCALES OF WAGES

	
 38

	  	
APPENDIX B - SHIFT PREMIUMS

	
 41

	  	
LETTER OF AGREEMENT

	
43

 

  

  

  

 

ARTICLE 1

PURPOSE OF AGREEMENT

	
1.01

	
The goals of this agreement are to promote and maintain relations harmonious between the employer, the employees and the trade union, to establish right work conditions for the employees and a mechanism facilitating the regulation of objections which can occur throughout agreement.

 

ARTICLE 2

DEFINITIONS

	
2.01

	
For the ends of interpretation and application of the provisions of the agreement, unless the context is opposed to it, the following terms mean:

	
2.02

	
Agreement

The present collective agreement of work.

	
2.03

	
Paid employee

Any employee with the employment of the employer and subjugated to the collective agreement.

	
2.04

	
Paid regular wage-earner

Nominate any employee who supplemented the period of probation. This employee holds a station.

	
2.05

	
Nobody part-time wage-earner

Nominate any employee engaged or affected to replace all absences or to counter a temporary addition of work one duration maximum six (6) months.

	
2.06

	
As soon as a new employee finishes the period of probation, the employer must inform the person  in writing of the statute (wage-earner regular or part-time) who is granted to him, with copy with the local trade union.  The same procedure applies when the employee changes statute.

 

 

  

4

  

	
2.07

	
Nobody paid in probation

Nominate any employee who did not supplement the period of probation envisaged in paragraph 11.02.

	
2.08

	
Promotion

Assignment of a employee of a title of employment, envisaging a standard of higher wages.

	
2.09

	
Demotion

Assigning an employee from one job title, providing for a wage at a lower rate .

	
2.10

	
Transfer

Indicate the assignment of a employee of a station with another, with or without change of title of employment, and comprising a rate or a scale of wages of which the maximum is identical.

	
2.11

	
Supplantation

Action of an employee who by virtue of his seniority rights, is ousted from his post by another employee.

	
2.12

	
End of the week

Saturdays and Sunday.

	
2.13

	
Day of rest

Full a twenty-four (24) hours period.

	
2.14

	
Trade union

Québécois trade union of the employees and employees of service, local section 298 (FTQ).

	
2.15

	
Employer

Transformer Bemag lnc.

 

  

5

  

 

	
2.16

	
Wages

For purposes of applying the benefits provided under this agreement, the salary and bonuses and benefits related to employment.

Moreover, when referring to the concept of annual salary or any other equivalent expression, this includes any compensation received as a holiday and paid leave under the provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE 3

TRADE-UNION RECOGNITION

	
3.01 a)

	
The employer recognizes the trade union as being the single agent negotiator and agent of the paid employees aimed by the certificate of emitted accreditation October 2nd the 1998.

If a difficulty of interpretation arises about the certificate of accreditation, it belongs to the Commission of the business relations to interpret the direction of this text and no court of arbitration can be invited to come to a conclusion about this interpretation.

	
3.02

	
No particular agreement relative to different work conditions or not envisaged with the collective agreement is valid unless it received the written approval of the trade union. The employer transmits to the trade union copies directives on the work conditions addressed to a group or the whole of the paid people.

	
3.03

	
The people excluded from the unit of negotiation do not achieve the work which concerns in all or partly the unit of negotiation, except in the following circumstances:

Necessary work in the event of urgency or in waiting of the arrival of a employee  recalled to work.

Necessary work and reasonable having for goal the training or the formation of the employee, as within the framework of the development of a new manufacturing process, a new product or within the framework of tests relative to new equipment or new tools. Such a work should not on foot have like consequence a setting or an abolition of station or prevent the creation of a new station beyond of a three (3) months period in this last case.

Necessary work can imports the circumstances to protect the life from the paid people or to avoid or decrease by the damage at the time of the imminence of a disaster.

ARTICLE 4

MANAGEMENT RIGHTS

	
4.01

	
The trade union acknowledges the right of the employer to the exercise of his way, management and administration, administrative duties compatible with the provisions of this agreement and the relevant laws.

  

6

  

 

ARTICLE 5

DISCRIMINATION

	
5.01 a)

	
For purposes of application of this collective agreement, neither the employer, neither the trade union, nor their respective representatives, exert threats, constraints or discrimination against a person paid because of her race, of its color, its nationality, its social origin, its language, its sex, its sexual orientation, its civil status, its age, its religious beliefs or their absence, his political opinions, its handicap, or the legitimate exercise and in good faith of a law which present convention or the law recognizes to him.

In spite of what precedes, a distinction, exclusion or preference based on the necessary requirements to achieve the tasks of a station are famous nondiscriminatory.

ARTICLE 6

TRADE-UNION MEMBERSHIP

	
6.01

	
All employees must be member of the trade union during the signature of this agreement, like condition of the maintenance of their employment.

	
6.02

	
As of their date of entry, all the new employees must become members of the trade union as a condition of their employment.

	
6.03

	
The employer is not held, under the terms of paragraphs 6.01 and 6.02, to dismiss a employee because the trade union will have eliminated it from its frameworks unless:

a)            The employee was engaged against a provision of the collective agreement;

b)           The employee took part, at the instigation or with direct aid or indirect of its employer or a person acting for this last, with an activity against accredited association.

However, the aforementioned employee will remain subjected to the stipulations of paragraph 6.04 of present.

	
6.04

	
Like condition of the maintenance of their employment, all the  employees must pay the trade union an amount equal to the trade union due fixed by the trade union.

	
6.05

	
The employer retains as of the first pay, for the duration of this agreement, on the pay of each employee, the trade union due fixed by the trade union and sends one (1) time per month the sums thus perceived, at the latest the fifteen (15) of the month, with the general secretary of the trade union.

It falls to the employer to see with the integral application of this paragraph.

	
6.06

	
The employer monthly provides in double specimen to the trade union the following information:

a)           Names of the subscribed paid people and amounts thus selected;

 

  

7

  

 

b)           The name of the people who leave the use and the date of their departure;

c)           The name of the new paid people and their date of recruitment;

d)           Changes of address and phone number brought to its attention.

	
6.07

	
a)

	
If a employee is absent at the time to pay her trade union due, the deduction must be made with same the first pays that it receives immediately after her return to work.

b)           The amount to deduct each week in order to catch up with the arrears is fixed by agreement between the employer, the trade union and the employee.

c)           For the vacancies, the trade union due is retained on the pay poured at the beginning for the vacancies.

	
6.08

	
When one or the other of •parts requires of the Commission of labor relations to rule if a person is understood in the unit of negotiation, the employer retains the trade union due or his equivalent until the decision of the Commission of the labor relations to then give it in accordance with the aforementioned decision. This reserve is done as from the beginning of the month following the deposit of a request for this purpose.

	
6.09

	
The amounts of union dues must appear on the forms T4 and RL-1.

ARTICLE 7

TRADE UNION MEETINGS

	
7.01

	
The employer meets at the disposal of trade union a table which is used exclusively for trade-union ends.

ARTICLE 8

UNION ACTIVITIES AND FREEDOM OF ACTION

	
8.01

	
a)

	
The trade union and the employer recognize and are appropriate that the paid people members of the executive should not take that time reasonably necessary during the work hours to see with the application of this agreement. The employee should never leave her work station without the preliminary permission of the employer to fulfill her functions of union representative. The employer does not refuse the permission with the deputy person to leave his station to see with the application of agreement except if its absence disturbed the normal operations of production. In this last case, the employer can limit to fifteen (15) minutes per day the time of intervention, if necessary.

b)           The people officers appointed by the trade union can go away from their work, without balance, to attend the congresses of the various trade-union authorities like to the other trade-union activities. The employer can refuse any trade-union release for more than two (2) people paid at the same time.

 

  

8

  

 

c)           The employer pays the regular wage with the person thus released and dispatches with the trade union a state of account for this purpose including the date and the duration of each absence. The trade union refunds the employer as soon as possible. The whole is made for the person paid without loss of advantages and its absence constitutes one of them authorized.

d)           With the preliminary permission of the employer, a maximum of two (2) members of the executive can, during the normal hours of work, to go away from their work without loss of wages to meet.

e)           Members, trade union and/or to discuss with the employer:. any disagreement which can occur. The frequency of these meetings owes be reasonable and not to disturb the normal operations of production.

The employer grants to a half day (1/2) of trade-union release per week to one (1) employee  paid indicated by the trade union for purposes of application of this collective agreement and the regulation of the objections.

After request of the trade union, the distribution could also be one half-day per week.

Such release has an effect which extends over one duration from twenty-four (24) hours. The employee is deemed to be at work.

	
8.02

	
The employee designated by the trade union to form the committee of negotiation can go away from their work for the negotiation sessions, conciliation or arbitration for the renewal of the collective agreement.  The committee is made of two (2) employees.

During such absences, employees are deemed to be at work. The period extends over a period of twenty four (24)

	
8.03

	
At the time of an arbitration, the employee plaintiff, one (1) member of the executive committee of the local trade union as two (2) paid people acting as pilot are released from their work and this, without loss of wages.

	
8.04

	
Unpaid leave for trade-union function

On written request of the trade union, the employer releases a person paid to achieve a trade-union function.

If it is about a nonelective function, the employee must make her choice within a time twenty-four (24) months as from her release. The expired time, it cannot require to return to the service of the employer and it is regarded as having given its resignation.

	
8.05

	
In the case of an elective function, the unpaid leave is renewable year by year in as much as the continuous employee to occupy this function and that she makes the request of it.

 

  

9

  

 

	
8.06

	
During the absences envisaged in paragraphs 8.04 and 8:05, nobody paid preserve his seniority but it receives nor does not acquire any wages and other benefit.

	
8.07

	
The employee who wishes to take again their employment and which meets the above-mentioned conditions must give to the employer a written notice of at least fifteen (15) days.

	
8.08

	
With the return of the employee exerting a trade-union function according to methods Ci-high envisaged, the employer takes again this person paid with the employment which it usually occupied at the time of the beginning of her leave, except if its station were abolished and, in such a case, the relative tendencies with supplantation apply.

	
8.09

	
It is understood that any permission of absence, granted according to the manner envisaged to the present article, does not assign the statute of a employee given to the provisions of paragraphs 2.04 and 2.05.

	
8.10

	
The trade union informs in writing the employer of the name of the members of the executive committee of the local trade union.

	
8.11

	
a)

	
the employer receives on go preliminary, at his offices or any other place which it determines, the representative external of the trade union in order to discuss with him a specific problem concerning the application or interpretation convention.

b)           The external representative of the trade union can, after having obtained the prior approval of the employer, which will not be refused without a reasonable reason, to meet the people paid on the workplaces and this, without loss of wages for the aforementioned people. The aforementioned meeting should not exceed one (1) hour.

	
8.12

	
The employer puts at the disposal of people representing of the trade union an arranged room, of exclusive use and which understands at least a table, chairs, a telephone and a sorter.

ARTICLE 9

ABSENCE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

	
9.01

	
The employee candidate with the performance of a civic duty is entitled to a thirty (30) days unpaid leave preceding the date by election. If she is elected to that the station, she is entitled to an unpaid leave for the duration of her mandate, if it is about a mandate requiring a full availability of its share. In this case, the employee preserves her seniority. At the end of her mandate, the employee will have to warn in writing the employer at least fifteen (15) days in advance of its desire of to resume work.

 

  

10

  

 

	
9.02

	
Any employee who must appear before Court or with an investigation before or after her normal day of work, during a leave, in a cause which has occurred in the course of her work and in relation to her work or implying the employer or in a cause of industrial accident, is refunded by the employer of any loss of wages and the expenditure caused with part (s) justifying (s) for her appearance.

ARTICLE 10

UNPAID LEAVE

	
10.01

	
The employee having at least one (1) year of service is entitled to unpaid leave a one maximum duration twelve (12) months.  At the time of this leave, the employee only accumulates her seniority during the thirty (30) first days.  This leave is obtained with the help of a four (4) weeks notice.

	
10.02

	
The regular employee is entitled one (1) time per year to unpaid leave a one duration maximum of one (1) month which can be split in two (2) periods adding up one (1) month.

Such leave is obtained with the help of a two (2) weeks’ notice; the employer can limit to a employee at the same time the use of the leave, if necessary the choice is made by seniority.

ARTICLE 11

SENIORITY

	
11.01

	
The general seniority is made up by the working life inside the unit of negotiation of a person paid for the employer, in accordance with the terms of this convention.  Is also recognized, for the paid people aimed by the certificate of accreditation, the duration of the service carried out for the employer before October 2nd 1998.

	
11.02

	
A new employee is considered in period of probation until it supplemented seven hundred and twenty (720) hours of presence to work. In the event of disciplinary measures, dismissal, it is not entitled to the procedure of objection and arbitration.

In spite of what precedes, the people paid in probation at the date of signature of this collective agreement are subjugated only with residual of the period of probation in force at the time of their recruiting, that is to say four hundred and eighty (480) hours.

 

  

11

  

 

Once the period of probation is complete, the employee acquires its rights of seniority retroactively to its date of recruiting.

If the employer takes again with his service a employee who did not finish before her period of probation because of a lack of work, this employee, to acquire her seniority, does nothing but supplement the work hours which missed at its period of preceding probation, in the condition however that it did not run out more one (1) year since his departure.

	
11.03

	
The seniority accumulates in accordance with the provisions of this convention and as long as it is not lost. The employee can take advantage of her rights of seniority for all the functions covered by the unit of negotiation of which it can fill the normal requirements of the function.

	
11.04

	
A employee loses all her rights of seniority and it is put an end to its employment in the following cases:

Voluntary resignation;

Dismissal due to just and sufficient;

Setting on foot for a period exceeding twelve (12) months;

Sick leave or accident including industrial accident exceeding twenty-four (24) months.

	
11.05

	
The seniority is general and must:

To prevail in the cases of promotion, transfer, retrogradation, new occupation, put on foot, recall with work, provided that the employee can fill the normal requirements of the task. The seniority which must prevail is that acquired at the time when the event occurs described previously. During the posting of a station, the seniority acquired at the last day of posting prevails. Such provisions do not apply for the functions of team leader.

In the case of recall with the work of a employee, the employer proceeds by registered letter or another means with acknowledgment of delivery transmitted to the last address provided by the employee. A employee must present herself to work the day envisaged with her opinion of recall. Between the forwarding of the opinion of recall and the date of the presence to work required, the employer must respect five (5) working days a minimum time. This time can be more short if the employee authorizes to it and that it is able to present itself to work more quickly on the instructions of the employer. In the interval, the employer uses the services of the part-time paid people for the work, if necessary.

 

  

12

  

 

No new employee or no other person whatever it is can be engaged as long as all the paid people put on foot who are able to fill the normal requirements of the task were not recalled in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

	
11.06

	
Mechanism of job security

a)           During a partial reduction of personnel, the employer shall first within each occupation for which lay-offs  are necessary. Employees who are laid off reverse order of seniority and are called back to work, if place, in order of seniority.

 

b)           An employee laid off may displace a person employee with less seniority.

 

c)           The employee supplanted by described procedure can, in its turn, to prevail itself of this same procedure, and thus of continuation. At the end of this process, the unable employee of to supplant is registered like anybody paid part time.

d)           To supplant, a employee must fulfill the requirements normal of the task.

E)           Seniority

The employer confirms with the person in writing paid and with the local trade union by indicating the title of employment, the statute, it service, the quarter of work, the number of work hours per day and it many days per week.

	
11.07

	
a)

	
In spite of paragraph 11.01, the seniority of the people paid with part time accumulates one day at each eight (8) hours of presence with work.

b)           When a part-time employee obtains a station, sound seniority is converted at a rate of twenty-two (22) days of seniority is equivalent to one (1) calendar month.

c)           Except contrary provisions, the employee part-time, absent for one or the other of the reasons envisaged with convention accumulates her seniority according to her twelve (12) last month average of presence to the work or, failing this, since her date of recruiting.

 

  

13

  

 

	
11.08

	
October 1st of each year, the employer posts and gives to the trade union a list of all the paid people aimed by the accreditation. This list understands the following information: name, seniority, date of recruiting, classification, address, wages, insurance number social and phone number. The list posted for one sixty (60) days period understands only the name, the seniority, the date of recruiting and classification. If the employee requires it, its insurance numbers social and of telephone as its address will be held secret and not revealed with the trade union.

Any employee can, during this period of posting, to dispute the exactitude of the information indicated on this list and this, by way of objection in accordance with the provisions of the collective agreement.

If a employee is absent during the period of posting, the employer forwards to him a written opinion indicating his seniority and his date of recruiting. In the thirty (30) days of the reception of this opinion, the employee can dispute the contained information.

If the seniority or the date of recruitment of a employee is corrected following a dispute under the terms of the present article, this new seniority or date of recruiting has a retroactive effect.

In the absence of dispute, the posted list becomes final and official. If there is an objection on part of the list, the remainder of this one becomes final and official in waiting which the list is corrected or is the object of an arbitration decision or a withdrawal of the objection.

	
11.09

	
If it necessary to observe the rules of the seniority under the terms of present convention, the employer and a representative of the trade union proceed by lottery to decide between and determine the privileges of the paid people having the same seniority.

ARTICLE 12

VOLUNTARY CHANGE

	
12.01

	
Any vacant post or lately created governed by the accreditation is posted at the usual places during one five (5) working days period. At the same time, the employer transmits copy of posting to the trade union. Within a reasonable delay preceding posting, the employer forwards copy posting with any employee goes away for one or the other from the reasons envisaged with convention.

 

  

14

  

 

	
12.02

	
A station is regarded as vacant when the regular employee who occupied it left in a final way.

	
12.03

	
Unless the station is not abolished, when a station becomes vacant, posting is done in the five (5) working days following the release of the station; at the same time, the employer transmits copy of the aforesaid posting to the local trade union.

	
12.04

	
Indications being parts of the station and having to appear on postings are:

The title of employment;

The statute;

The period of posting;

Requirements of the station;

The number of hours per week;

The quarter of work.

	
12.05

	
Any employee has the right during the period of posting to present her written candidature for the employer unless the employee could successfully supplement the trial period for the aforementioned station and this, in the six (6) months preceding the period by posting.

	
12.06

	
The station must be granted and is filled by the employee who has the most seniority among those which presented their candidature for the condition than it can satisfy the normal requirements with the task.  The requirements must be relevant and in relation to the station to be filled. In the event of objection, the burden of the proof belongs to the employer.

For this purpose, the employer posts the nomination in the ten (10) days which follow the end of the period of posting envisaged to paragraph 12.01. Copy this posting is transmitted immediately to the local trade union and to the employee concerned.

If the employer did not receive any candidature at the end of the period of posting envisaged in paragraph 12.01 or that all the candidatures were rejected for a valid reason, subject to the disputes if necessary, the employer proceeds to fill the station by using resources external with the unit of negotiation.

	
12.07

	
The vacancy created by promotion, the transfer or the retrogradation following or of postings must also be posted according to procedure Ci-high mentioned.

 

  

15

  

	
12.08

	
The person candidate to which the station is allotted is entitled to one period of initiation and test one duration maximum thirty (30) workdays. This period cannot be stopped that by an absence authorized by present convention. If the employee is maintained in her new station at the end of her trial period, it is considered, at this moment, to satisfy the normal requirements with the task.

 

	
12.09

	
During the trial period, the employee who decides to reinstate her old station or which has to reinstate her old post office at the request of the employer does it without damage with her rights acquired to her old station. If the employee has to reinstate her old station, it falls to the employer to prove that the employee did not satisfy the normal requirements with the task.

	
12.10

	
a) The employee assigned to a station out of field of application of this convention is entitled to one trial period twelve (12) months.

b)            In any time before the expiry of the trial period, the employer can turn over the person paid to his preceding station and the employee can voluntarily go back there.

c)           With the expiry of the trial period, such a employee loses the rights which acknowledges to him present convention and, if it turns over to a station inside the unit of accreditation, it is regarded as a new person paid without seniority.

d) Such an assignment with the possibility of return envisaged to the subparagraph b)

can be carried out only once.

	
12.11

	
In the process envisioned by paragraph 12.01 and following, the employer can always fill by paid people the station temporarily for necessary time until the allotment procedure of station is finished.

	
12.12

	
Stations

When the employer abolishes a station, it must give of them two (2) weeks a written notice to the employee concerned and to the local trade union. In the absence of such opinion, the employee must receive the same one remuneration which it received before the abolition of its station and this, for duration envisaged of the notice.

 

  

16

  

 

ARTICLE 13

DISCIPLINARY MEASURES

	
13.01

	
Any measurement or disciplinary opinion is addressed to the employee in writing and contains the explanatory memorandum. A copy of this disciplinary measure is sent in forty-eight (48) the hours to the trade union and the local trade union. In any disciplinary matter the burden of the proof belongs to the employer.

	
13.02

	
In all the cases of dismissal or suspension, the employer can meet the employee concerned to explain his reasons and this, before imposing the sanction.

	
13.03

	
At the time of a disciplinary opinion, of a dismissal or a suspension, the employer transmits in writing to the person paid with copy with the trade union and the local trade union, all the facts and reasons known at the time of measurement which caused the disciplinary opinion, the dismissal or the suspension. Subsequently, so from other facts justifying the disciplinary opinion, the dismissal or the suspension comes to knowledge from the employer, those will be communicated to the trade union and this, at least thirty (30) days before the date of hearing of the objection, if necessary.

	
13.04

	
Any employee convened by the employer for disciplinary reasons must be accompanied by her union representative. At the time of this interview, the employee and the union representative are remunerated as follows. If this convocation takes place during the normal day of work of the paid people, these paid people do not undergo any loss of wages because of the convocation. If the paid people are convened after their normal day of work, they will be remunerated for the time spent in an interview with the representatives of the employer.

	
13.05

	
No employee will be held to present itself apart from her normal hours of work with a convocation requested by the employer.

	
13.06

	
On request with the personnel manager or her representative, a employee can, with the preliminary permission of the employer and over her work hours, to consult her disciplinary file in the presence of an union representative, if she wishes it. She can also obtain copy of the relevant parts for a hearing in relation to an objection or an industrial accident or occupational disease. The employee cannot misuse her right to consult her disciplinary file. In any event, the consultation of the disciplinary file should not be made if the normal operations of production are affected.

 

  

17

  

 

The employer gives or forwards in the seven (7) days to the dismissed employee a complete copy of his file.

	
13.07

	
A disciplinary measure which is rescinded by the employer or is declared nonfounded by the referee cannot be called upon against the employee.

	
13.08

	
No consent signed by a employee can be to him opposite in front of a referee unless it is about a consent signed in the presence of a witness or that the employee does not raise opposition to this consent.

	
13.09

	
A court of arbitration can appreciate the circumstances which surrounded resignation of a employee and the value of the aforesaid assent.

Notwithstanding any form of the employer, at the time of a resignation with notice, the employee can cancel her resignation if she warns about it the employer before the effective date of its departure.

	
13.10

	
The employer withdraws file of the employee, with the expiry of one twelve (12) months period, any opinion of disciplinary measure or reprimand put forth with regard to a person paid in the condition that it there of similar offense in the twelve (12) following months did not have the opinion or reprimands.

In spite of what precedes, the period during which the employee prevailed herself of the unpaid leave mentioned in paragraph 10.01 of present collective agreement is not entered for purposes of the application of the paragraph which precedes.

	
13.11

	
File of the employee Formulas having to appear with the file of the employee:

Formulate job application; Promotion, transfer, retrogradation; Disciplinary measure;

Report of absence and delay;

Medical reports;

Reports of industrial accident.

ARTICLE 14

GRIEVANCES

	
14.01

	
An objection means very felt sorry for or disagreement referring directly or indirectly to the work conditions, the collective agreement or the law.

 

  

18

  

 

	
14.02

	
The parts try to regulate the objections as quickly as, possible.

	
14.03

	
The objection must be submitted to the written employer by the employee, the trade union or the local trade union in forty-five (45) the days of the knowledge of the fact from which the objection rises.   The employer must give his written answer in the ten (10) days following the reception of the objection

	
14.04

	
In the event of unsatisfactory answer or in the absence of answer, the trade union can subject the objection to the arbitration.

	
14.05

	
The trade union can make and subject an objection on its behalf in the name of a employee, of a group of paid people or the whole of the paid people.

	
14.06

	
The employee who leaves the service of the employer without to have perceived the totality of the sums which are due for him can claim them by way of objection.

	
14.07

	
The objection is heard by single referee, chosen by the parts and, in the absence of agreement on the choice of a referee, the Labor Code applies.

	
14.08

	
The expenses and fees of the referee are paid with shares equal by the parts to present.

	
14.09

	
When the decision of the referee implies a monetary compensation, it can order that the legal interest is added on the real amount and this, as from the deposit of the objection.

While rendering a decision about an objection, the referee should not withdraw, add or modify anything in present convention.

	
14.10

	
With regard to disciplinary matters, the single referee can confirm, modify or break the decision of the employer; he can, if necessary, substitute for it the decision which appears right to him and reasonable taking into account all the circumstances of the business.

	
14.11

	
Burden of tasks

	
14.12

	
In the case of an objection of burden of the tasks, the single referee can appreciate the workload and order to the employer to apply corrective measures when the burden of tasks is objectively unreasonable.

 

  

19

  

 

ARTICLE 15,

WORK HOURS

	
15.01

	
The normal week of work of the regular paid people is made up forty (40) work hours distributed according to the needs for the service, of the Monday to Friday inclusively.

In spite of what precedes, the employer can, if the needs for the service require it, create stations of end of the week.  The employer must also respect the seven (7) additional clause days notice a change in the work hours.  If necessary, the choice of the work hours is made by seniority.

	
15.02

	
a)

	
The normal day of work is ten (10) hours distributed on four {4) days.  Work hour for the paid people of quarter of day, begins at 6:30 and finishes at 16:30.

Schedule of work for the people paid on the quarter of evening begins with 16:30 and finishes at 2:30.

In spite of what precedes, the employer reserves the right for some stations to distribute the work hour over five (5) workdays of eight (8) hours.

Additional clause the creation of a third quarter of work, the day normal will be eight (8) hours.

b)           The work hours which compose the duration of the normal day of work must be consecutive, subject to the periods of meal and of rest.

c)           The regular paid people are not subjected to one system of rotation of quarter of work.

	
15.03

	
The paid people at least are entitled per work day to one period thirty (30) minutes remunerated to take their meal. The paid people are not held to take their meal with the establishment.

	
15.04

	
Any employee is entitled to two periods of rest fifteen (15) minutes paid per quarter of work. This time includes the periods of displacement between the work station and the place of the rest.

 

  

20

  

ARTICLE 16

OVERTIME

	
16.01

	
Any work carried by a person paid besides the day or normal week, approval or fact with knowledge of the employer and without objection of his share, is regarded as additional time.

	
16.02

	
The work hours carried out in additional time are remunerated by the rate and half of the standard of regular wages of the employee.

So work must be carried out in additional time, the employer must offer it to the regular paid people, by seniority and title of employment, and which fulfill the normal requirements of the task.

However, in the unforeseen cases or the emergency cases, the employer the offer in preference to regular paid people who carry the aforementioned work on the spot.

Notwithstanding any other provision of the collective agreement, no employee must carry out more than sixteen (16) work hours per day. Moreover, it must always run out one eight (8) hours period between the end and the resumption of work.

	
16.03

	
Any employee can refuse to make additional time.

However, if it is impossible to find one or of the paid people who agree to make additional time and if it is essential to make it for the good walk of the operations, the employer can nominate the employees having less seniority in their function to do it. However, the conditions stipulated in this article should not become the common practice of the employer.

	
16.04

	
The employer maintains available and accessible compilation from the hours worked in additional time and the hours refused by each regular employee. He transmits a copy of this compilation to the trade union, with his request.

	
16.05

	
If the employer holds of the meetings concerning work apart from the hours of the normal week of work, the paid people held to assist to with it are then remunerated by the rate and half (1 1/2).

	
16.06

	
Additional work is paid at the same time as the pay according to that of the period during which work was made.

 

  

21

  

 

	
16.07

	
In spite of this which precedes, at the request of the employee, payment for the overtime is replaced by a one duration paid vacation equivalent to overtime carried out, raised of fifty percent (50%).

The choice of the days of leave is established after agreement with the employer. Such days must be taken in the twelve (12) months following overtime carried out, in the absence of what they are automatically paid.

	
16.08

	
For purposes of the calculation of overtime, the annual leaves and been unemployed and paid bank holidays are compared to workdays.

	
16.09

	
One period of fifteen (15) minutes rest is granted to the person paid between the end of its normal day and the beginning of the additional period of time.  Any two (2) hours period run out in additional time call one period of fifteen (15) minutes rest.

ARTICLE 17

PAID LEAVES

	
17.01

	
a)

	
Spouse

That which became it in consequence of a legally contracted marriage in Quebec or elsewhere and recognized like valid by the laws of Quebec or by the fact for a nonmarried person paid of to reside permanently since more one (1) year with a person nonmarried that it represents publicly like its person joint being specified that the dissolution of the marriage by divorce or cancellation makes lose this statute of anybody joint just as the separation in fact since more than three (3) months in the case of one marriage not legally contracted.

b)           Child

A child of the employee, the joint person or two.

	
17.02

	
Any employee having supplemented her period of probation, profits from a leave without loss of wages in the following cases:

a)           Death of the spouse or a child: five (5) days as from the death or of another date authorized by the employer;

 

  

22

  

 

b)           Death of his/her father, his mother, her brother, his sister: four (4) days without count death or of another date authorized by the employer;

c)           Death of his/her father-in-law, his mother-in-law, her daughter-in-law, her son-in-law, his grandparents, his brother-in-law, his sister-in-law, her grandson or his grand-daughter: two (2) days;

d)           Birth or adoption: five (5) days paid, plus one (1) week without balance if the employee wishes it.

e)           A employee having supplemented her period of probation in the case of has right death of the grandfather or the grandmother of the spouse: I day of the funeral without treatment;

f)           In all the cases envisaged with the present article, a employee must warn I employer as soon as possible after the knowledge of the event.

	
17.03

	
A employee, having supplemented her period of probation, is entitled to one (1) day off without loss of wages, at the time of her marriage. This leave is taken the day of the marriage or the day before its marriage.

A employee can also go away from work, without wages, the day of the marriage or the civil union of the one of her children, her father, her mother, a brother, a sister or a child of joint sound.

	
17.04

	
At the time of the absences mentioned in the paragraphs which precede, the employee receives a remuneration equivalent to that which it would receive if it were with work this day.

	
17.05

	
Parental leave and of maternity

Besides the provisions envisaged with the laws and regulations of a provincial or federal nature, the father or the mother of a new-born child or adoptee is entitled to the following provisions:

With the help of a notice of at least two (2) weeks, the employee is entitled to an unpaid leave or partial without balance one maximum duration two (2) years.

At the time of the notice, the employee specifies the installation of the partial leave without balance, if necessary.

With the help of a two (2) weeks’ notice, the employee can modify or put an end to the unpaid leave or partial without balance.

 

  

23

  

The return to the work of the employee is made without damage with its rights, benefit and preferences just like if it had never been absent.

	
17.06

	
A employee can go away from work, without wages, during ten (10) days per year to fill of the obligations connected to the guard, the health or the education of her child or of the child of united sound, or because of the health status of united sound, her father, her mother, a brother, a sister or one of her grandparents.

This leave can be split in days or half-days but with the agreement of the employer in this last case.

ARTICLE 18

HOLIDAYS

	
18.01

	
The following days are paid holidays,

New Year's Day

The day after New Year's Day

Good Friday

Easter Monday

Victoria Day or La Fête de Dollard des Ormeaux

St-Jean Baptist

Confederation

Labor Day

Thanksgiving

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

The day after Christmas Day

The day after New Year's Day

Birthday, or 1 floating Day

	
18.02

	
Any non-working leave which occurs the end of the week is deferred the first working day which precedes or which follows the aforementioned non-working leave. For this purpose, the employer gives a notice of one of them (1) week.

	
18.03

	
The employee held to work at the time of a non-working leave is remunerated by double rate for the work hours carried out and this, besides the payment of the leave.

	
18.04

	
On non-working leave, the employee receives a remuneration equivalent to the average of her daily wages of the days worked during two (2) last week’s complete of presence to work.

 

  

24

  

ARTICLE 19

Vacation

	
19.01

	
a)

	
The employee having less {1) year of service with April 30th of each year is entitled to one (1) day of paid vacation per month of service, up to ten (10) days, with a maximum of two (2) weeks. The employee engaged before fifteenth (15th) day of the month with right to its day off for the month where he is engaged.

b)           The employee having supplemented one (1) year of service to the 30 April of each year is entitled to two (2) weeks of vacancies paid with four percent (4%) of the annual salary gained between 1st May of the previous year and April 30th of the current year.

c)           The employee having supplemented three (3) years of service with April 30th of each year be is entitled to three (3) weeks of vacancies paid with six percent {6%) of the annual salary gained between May 1st previous year and April 30th of the current year.

d)           The employee having supplemented eight (8) years of service with April 30th of each year be is entitled to four (4) weeks of vacancies paid with eight percent (8%) of the annual salary gained between 1st May of the previous year and April 30th of the current year.

E)           The employee having supplemented twelve (12) years of service with April 30th of each year be is entitled to five (5) weeks of vacancies paid with ten percent (10%) of the annual salary gained between 1st May of the previous year and April 30th of the current year.

	
19.02

	
a)

	
Choice for the summer period

For the stocked summer period of the vacancies, that is to say beginning July at the end of August, the choice will be done by seniority and by department.  The needs for the company will be posted at the latest May 15th of each year and the paid people will have to sign before June 1st in order to guarantee their holiday period festival.

b)           Choice apart from the summer period

The employer grants the holiday periods according to the choice expressed by the person paid in the condition that this one gives some a notice of at least two (2) weeks.

	
19.03

	
The pay of vacancies is calculated separately and given on a bulletin of pay distinct with the last pay which precedes the departure on vacation.

 

  

25

  

 

	
19.04

	
In the event of final suspension of employment, the employee is entitled, in accordance with the provisions of this article, an allowance equivalent to the duration of the vacancies acquired and not used.

 

	
19.05

	
With the agreement of the employer, the employee can split one of her weeks of annual vacancies in period of one (1) day.

	
19.06

	
If a non-working leave occurs during the vacancies of a employee, it could be deferred to a later date with being fixed of assent with the employer or, if she wishes it, being paid at the regular rate for this day at the same time as its remuneration of vacancies at the regular rate.

	
19.07

	
The employee unable to take her vacancies for reason of disability or occupational accident which has occurred before the beginning of her holiday period sees her vacancies deferred automatically even beyond the following year, except if the employee presents a request to the contrary effect.

If the vacancies could not be taken in the year following the base period, the employee can, without damage with her rights, to ask and obtain for the total remuneration of her pay of vacancies acquired at the date of the request.

	
19.08

	
For any absence for the base period, the method of calculating envisaged in article 74 of the Law on the Standards of work applies. The pay of vacancy of the previous year uses the calculation of the gross salary.

ARTICLE 20

SAFETY AND HEALTH

	
20.01

	
The employer and the trade union collaborate to reach the best possible conditions of health, safety and health with work with an aim of preventing the industrial diseases and the occupational accidents.

	
20.02

	
The employer will take the necessary measures to ensure safety and to protect health from the people paid during the work hours. He must also make sure of the maintenance of a temperature comfortable and equal to any hour of the day.

	
20.03

	
The employer recognizes a committee of health and occupational safety made up for the trade-union part of four (4) paid people.

This committee is equal.  Each part has a vote.  The quorum at the meetings will be of at least a representative for each part among the people whom is part of the committee.

 

  

26

  

 

	
20.04

	
The functions of this committee are those envisaged in articles 37 and 78 of Law on the health and occupational safety.

The committee meets one (1) time in all the two (2) months and this, during the regular hours of work.

At the meetings and work of the aforesaid committee, the paid people are famous being with work.

	
20.05

	
The employer provides, with his expenses and all the paid people, all the means and protective equipment individual prescribed by rules or necessary to the achievement of a task. As for the shoes (boots) of safety that the employee must absolutely carry for work, the employer refunds once per year of work, with the person paid, a maximum of hundred dollars (100 $) on proof of purchase of such shoes in conformity with the standards in force.

	
20.06

	
a)

	
A employee has the right to refuse to carry a work if it has reasons reasonable to believe that the execution of this work exposes to a danger to its health, its safety or its integrity physics, or can have the effect to expose another person to one similar danger.

b)           The employee cannot however exert this right if the refusal to carry the work in immediate danger the life, health, safety puts or physical integrity of another person or if conditions of execution of this work are normal in the kind of work that she exerts.

c)           Subject to the provisions of the law, the employer cannot make to carry the work by another employee or one nobody who usually works out of the establishment.

d)           The employee who exerts her right of refusal is famous being with work when she exerts this right.

E)           When a employee refuses to carry a work, it must to inform its immediate superior of it as soon as possible.

F)           The employer must carry out the examination of the situation and bring them necessary corrective measures.

G)           The employer be able to require that the employee who exerted sound right of refusal remains available on the workplaces and to affect it temporarily with another task which it is reasonably in measure to achieve.

 

  

27

  

 

In the event of objection referring directly or indirectly to the exercise of the right of refusal, the seized referee by the objection must grant to the employee the same presumption as that envisaged with the article 255 of the Law on the occupational accidents and the occupational diseases.

 

	
20.07

	
No form of responsibility or disengagement of responsibility which the employer requires of a employee is valid.

	
20.08

	
Temporary assignment

When the employer wishes to use the temporary assignment for a employee victim of an industrial accident, the following procedure applies:

The employer must obtain the agreement of the attending physician of the employee who signs the official form of the CSST envisaged for this purpose.

This work does not involve a danger to health, the safety or the physical integrity of the person paid taking into account her lesion.

This work must be favorable to the readjustment of the employee.

The necessary tasks of the employee are tasks normally necessary to the company.

Such temporary assignment should not have for effect to move a person paid on her station or to reduce the work hours of a employee.

The échant case, the work day of a person paid in temporary assignment is reduced amongst hours necessary for transport, the treatment or the necessary medical examination in relation to its industrial accident. The employee is then famous being with work.

The employer gives to an union representative of the committee of health and safety copies form signed by the attending physician.

ARTICLE 21

PAYMENT OF WAGES

	
21.01

	
The paid people are entitled, according to their occupation, at the standards of wages envisaged with appendix A of convention.

 

  

28

  

 

	
21.02

	
The wages are paid by direct deposit on its account under presentation of supporting documents. The pay is given or poured according to the case Thursday, with every week.

 

Additional clause an error on the pay, the employer begins to refund the person paid in the twenty-four (24) hours.

Additional clause an error on the pay caused by the employee, this one will be refunded on the following pay.

 

	
21.03

	
The pay of a employee who is not present at the can be given to another employee, provided that it has a signed official authorization.

	
21.04

	
The information having to appear on the pay slips must be written in French in normally comprehensible terms so that the employee can understand all information which its pay slip contains:

The name of the employer;

The name of the employee;

Identification of the employment of the employee;

The date of the payment and the period of work which corresponds to

payment;

The number of hours paid with the normal level;

The number of overtime paid with applicable increase;

The nature and the amount of the bonuses, allowances or allowances

poured;

The standard of wages;

The amount of the gross salary;

The nature and the amount of the operated deductions;

The amount of the net salary paid with the employee.

No reserve can be made on the pay of a person paid without a written authorization of the employee concerned, except for legal and obligatory reserves prescribed under the terms of convention or by the law.

	
21.05

	
The employee who must of the money to the employer must, at every week, to refund of her gross salary her debt towards the employer, as envisaged at the time of the original agreement between the employee and the employer and this one are justified to reduce the aforementioned amount on the pay of the person paid without another formality.

 

  

29

  

 

If the employee leaves her employment before to have refunded all its debt, the employer retains on any sum to give to the employee the amount sufficient for the payment of the debt of this person.

	
21.06

	
The employee who works at another or various stations receives the wages of the station best remunerated for time worked by this station, in as far as it occupied it at least one (1) continuous hour inside the same day.

In addition, the employee who works at a station whose time rate is lower than its regular rate preserves the time rate attached to its station, except following a setting on foot.

ARTICLE 22

TRAINING

	
22.01

	
When a new station not envisaged with present is created or when new substantial tasks are allotted to a employee, the employer must negotiate of it the standard of wages and the definition of tasks with the trade union. If the parts do not manage an agreement within a reasonable delay, the litigation is subjected to the arbitration as envisaged with the article 14 of this collective agreement.

	
22.02

	
The employer grants without expenses to the employee the formation necessary and reasonable for his maintenance on his station when the employer brings technological changes or that it requires requirements higher than those necessary when the employee obtained the position which she holds. During any formation, the employee is famous being with work.

	
22.03

	
Within the framework of the application of the law on vocational training, the employer annually transmits to the trade union the amount of the money sums reserved for the people frameworks and the paid people. The training program is established after agreement with the trade union.

The distribution of the money sums must be equitable considering the proportion amongst people paid compared to the number of people frameworks.

During any formation, the employee is famous being with work.

	
22.04

	
The surpluses former to the date of signature of the collective agreement, if necessary, are used in priority.

 

  

30

  

 

ARTICLE 23

LAY-OFF NOTICES

	
23.01

	
The employer gives an opinion written to the person paid before putting an end with its work contract or on foot to put it for one (1) month or more.

The opinion is of one (1) week if the employee justifies less one (1) year of continuous service, two (2) weeks if it justifies of one (1) to five (5) years of continuous service, four (4) weeks if it justifies of five (5) to ten (10) years of continuous service and eight (8) weeks if it justifies ten (10) years or more continuous service.

The employer who does not give an opinion envisaged to the present article or which gives a one insufficient duration opinion must pour with the employee a compensation allowance equivalent to his possible wages, without taking account of overtime, for one period equal to that of the duration or the residual duration of the opinion to which she was entitled.

The allowance must be versed at the time of the termination of employment or the setting on foot for more one (1) month or with the expiry of a time of one (1) month of a setting on foot for an unlimited duration or planned for one period of one (1) month but which exceeds this time.

ARTICLE 24

RESTROOMS

	
24.01

	
The employer agrees to maintain a room suitable for the paid people provided with racks which can be barred by the person paid with her own lock.

	
24.02

	
The employer puts at the disposal of paid people, a place to take the meal or the coffee breaks.   This place understands a refrigerator as well as tables and chairs in sufficient quantity. For this purpose, the employer agrees to make clean regularly the aforementioned room.

	
24.03

	
The employer puts at the disposal of paid people an external shelter being used as smoking-room.

ARTICLE 25

PARKING

	
25.01

	
The employer provides free to the paid people a space of parking.

 

  

31

  

ARTICLE 26

PERSONAL VEHICLE

	
26.01

	
When a employee must achieve her functions outside the establishment, she is regarded as being with work, including the time used for her displacement.

When it uses its car, the employee receives fifty hundred {0.50 $) per kilometer.

	
26.02

	
Except in the event of heavy fault, the employer commits himself protecting by an insurance policy responsibility the employee of which the civil responsibility could be committed by the fact of the performance of its duties.

If it does not take such an insurance, the employer then assumes the fact and the cause of the employee and does not exert against the latter any claim in this respect.

ARTICLE 27

APPENDICES AND LETTERS OF AGREEMENT

	
27.01

	
The appendices and letters of agreement form integral part of this convention.

ARTICLE 28

SUBCONTRACTING

	
28.01

	
The employer agrees not to make carry out by subcontractors of the work normally carried out by the paid people if that causes to create a setting on foot, an abolition of station or a reduction of the work hours. The employer informs the local trade union of under granted contracts.

	
28.02

	
In spite of what precedes, the employer can grant in subcontracting transport by haulage.

If necessary, the employee whose station is abolished does not undergo any reduction in her standard of wages following the application of the procedure of supplantation mentioned to article 11 of this collective agreement.

 

  

32

  

 

ARTICLE 29

ACQUIRED PRIVILEGES

	
29.01

	
The paid people who enjoy at present advantages or privileges higher than those envisaged than present continue to profit from it for the duration from this collective agreement.

ARTICLE 30

SOLIDARITY FUNDS FTQ

 

	
30.01

	
The employer agrees to collaborate with the trade union to allow the paid people, having finished their period of probation, to profit from the plan of savings of Solidarity funds FTQ.

	
30.02

	
For this purpose, the employer agrees to pour at the Solidarity funds, for and in the name of each employee taking part in the Funds in an account REÉR, an amount of money equivalent to that subscribed by the person paid up to three percent (3%) of the gained wage paid by the employer provided that the employee pays at least the same amount.

	
30.03

	
Moreover, the employer agrees to deduce with the source on the pay from each employee who wishes it and who signed the form of subscription, the amount indicated by the person paid for the fixed duration or until adverse opinion.

	
30.04

	
A employee can in any time to modify the amount of her payments or to cease subscribing while forwarding an opinion in this direction to the Funds and to the employer.

	
30.05

	
The employer commits himself forwarding by check to the Funds at every month, at the latest the fifteenth (15th) day of the month following the taking away, the sums thus deduced under the terms of paragraph 30.03 as well as the sums due under the terms of paragraph 30.02. This handing-over must be accompanied by a state indicating the name, the insurance number social of each employee, assembling it taken for each one under the terms of paragraph 30.03 and the amount paid for each one under the terms of paragraph 30.02.

ARTICLE 31

INSURANCES

	
31.01

	
The employer draws up a plan of optional insurance-group whose cost is assumed with equal shares between the employer and the paid people.

This plan must contain the following elements at least:

 

  

33

  

 

A life insurance of 25,000$

A life insurance for the spouse of 10,000$

A life insurance for the children of 5,000 $

A health insurance:  no frankness and refunding with 90%

Insurance-wages: 75% minimum a hundred and four (104) weeks a plan covering the corrective lenses as well as the contact lenses

An individual and family plan

	
31.02

	
When a employee is hospitalized, broken or in disease absence, the employer makes him an advance of wages each week, an amount equivalent for the benefits of insurance-wages and this, as a long time as the aforementioned benefit are not paid systematically and this, for a maximum of six (6) weeks.

	
31.03

	
An explanatory folder of the mode is given by the employer to each employee.

	
31.04

	
On request, the employer transmits to the trade union copies contract of insurances.

	
31.05

	
The employee will be responsible for her claims near the insurer for the group insurance.   The employer will provide the necessary tools for this purpose.

ARTICLE 32

SICK PAY

	
32.01

	
January 1st from each year, the regular paid people receive a thirty (30) hours credit of disease.    The employee who becomes regular after January 1st receives a credit proportional to what precedes.   As regards the other paid people, they receive a percentage of a comma five percent (1.5%) added to their wages on each pay.

	
32.02

	
The regular employee who did not use complete her hours of disease to which it has right according to the preceding paragraph receives, at the latest on the pay covering December 31st each year, the payment of the hours thus accumulated and not used.  This payment is carried out on a distinct pay slip.

The sick regular employee can, as from the day of absence due to the disease and in as much as they are working days, to draw from its credit of hour’s disease up to hours with its credit.

 

  

34

  

	
32.03

	
The employee who uses a sick leave receives one remuneration equivalent to that which it would have received if it had worked.

	
32.04

	
Medical ticket

At the time of any sick leave of more than two (2) days consecutive, the employer can require of the employee a medical ticket. If necessary, the expenses of such a medical ticket are the responsibility of the employer.

With his discretion, the employer can limit to once a month, by anybody paid, the application of this article.

	
32.05

	
Medical examination

When the employer challenges the validity of a medical certificate of a employee, it can require a medical examination by a doctor of its choice.  In such a case, this examination is done during the normal hours of work and the employee is famous being with work. All the medical and ancillary medical expenses incurred by such an examination are the responsibility of the employer. The employee receives copy of the report of the doctor of the employer at once that it is produced.

ARTICLE 33

TERM OF AGREEMENT

	
33.01

	
The present collective agreement between in force at the date of its signature with full retroactive effect at March 15th 2010 for the wages and the adjustments of wages such as benches to appendix A. It finishes it March 15th 2013.

	
33.02

	
The work conditions contained in present convention remain in force to the coming into effect of a new convention.

	
33.03

	
If a provision of an act of a regulation of public order envisages a provision higher than the collective agreement, this one is automatically amended in order to be in conformity or equal so that the law envisages.

	
33.04

	
The sums due under the terms of retroactivity are paid to the people paid on a check distinct in the thirty (30) days from the date of signature of this convention and this, for every hour worked since March 15th, 2010.

	
  

	 

 

  

35

  

 

 

In WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties signed in Farnham, this 3rd day of the month of June 2010.

	EMPLOYER 	 	 	
TRADE UNION

	 
	
 

	 	 	
 

	 
	
 

	 	 	 	 
	
 

	 	 	
 

	 

 

  

36

  

 

APPENDIX WITH

TITLES OF EMPLOYMENT, RATE AND SCALES OF WAGES

	
1.0

	
The high voltage term means the employee who works on one transformer of more than four thousand hundred and sixty (4160) volts.

	
1.1

	
Time rates and scales of wages at March 15th 2010

Rates and scales of wages in force the day preceding the date by signature of the collective agreement or the rates and scales of wages are raised as from:

	
1.2

	
To March 15th 2010 of a sum equivalent to three comma five percent (3,5%).

	
 

Titles of employment

	
 

Probation

	
 

Classify B

	
 

Classify A

	
 

Winder

	
 

12.21

	
 

15.77

	
 

16.61

	
 

Winder of high voltage

	
 

13.41

	
 

16.97

	
 

17.81

	
 

Driver

	
 

11.95

	
 

14.67

	
 

15.21

	
 

Cutter

	  	  	
 

15.09

	
 

Collector

	
 

11.74

	
 

14.66

	
 

15.48

	
 

Day laborer

	
 

11.29

	  	
 

13.92

	
 

Roller

	
 

11.51

	
 

14.88

	
 

15.38

	
 

Roller of high voltage

	
 

12.71

	
 

16.08

	
 

16.58

	
 

Specialized mechanic

	
 

15.15

	
 

18.17

	
 

21.22

	
 

Assembler/welder

	
12.44

	
15.63

	
16.49

	
 

Assembler/welder high voltage

	
 

13.64

	
 

16.83

	
 

17.69

	
 

Operator of cutting machine

	  	  	
 

15.99

	
 

Operator of cutting machine HT

	  	  	
 

17.07

	
 

Operator cold folding machine

	
 

10.97

	
 

14.17

	
 

14.65

	
 

Reception

	
 

12.61

	
 

15.48

	
 

15.91

	
 

Technician

	
17.32

	
18.75

	
20.21

	
 

Technician of support

	  	  	
 

19.99

 

  

37

  

1.3           At March 15th 2011, of a sum equivalent to three percent (3%).

 

	
 

Titles of employment

	
 

Probation

	
 

Classify B

	
 

Classify A

	
 

Winder

	
 

12.58

	
 

16.24

	
 

17.11

	
 

Winder of high voltage

	
 

13.81

	
 

17.48

	
 

18.35

	
 

Driver

	
 

12.31

	
 

15.11

	
 

15.67

	
 

Cutter

	  	  	
 

15.54

	
 

Collector

	
 

12.09

	
 

15.10

	
 

15.95

	
 

Day laborer

	
 

11.62

	  	
 

14.34

	
 

Roller

	
 

11.86

	
 

15.33

	
 

15.84

	
 

Roller of high voltage

	
 

13.09

	
 

16.56

	
 

17.08

	
 

Specialized mechanic

	
 

15.61

	
 

18.71

	
 

21.86

	
 

Assembler/welder

	
 

12.81

	
 

16.10

	
 

16.98

	
 

Assembler/welder high voltage

	
 

14.05

	
 

17.34

	
 

18.22

	
 

Operator of cutting machine

	  	  	
 

16.47

	
 

Operator of cutting machine HT

	  	  	
 

17.59

	
 

Operator cold folding machine

	
 

11.29

	
 

14.60

	
 

15.09

	
 

Reception / forwarding

	
12.99

	
15.95

	
16.38

	
 

Technician

	
17.84

	
19.31

	
20.81

	
 

Technician of support

	  	  	
 

20.59

 

  

38

  

 

1.4           At March 15th 2012, of a sum equivalent to three percent (3%).

  

	
 

Titles of employment

	
 

Probation

	
 

Classify B

	
 

Classify A

	
 

Winder

	
 

12.95

	
 

16.73

	
 

17.63

	
Winder of high voltage

	
14.22

	
18.00

	
18.90

	
Driver

	
12.68

	
15.56

	
16.14

	
Cutter

	  	  	
16.00

	
Collector

	
12.46

	
15.56

	
16.43

	
Day laborer

	
11.97

	  	
14.77

	
Roller

	
12.21

	
15.79

	
16.32

	
Roller of high voltage

	
13.49

	
17.06

	
17.59

	
Specialized mechanic

	
16.08

	
19.27

	
22.52

	
Assembler/welder

	
13.20

	
16.58

	
17.49

	
Assembler/welder high voltage

	
14.47

	
17.86

	
18.76

	
Operator of cutting machine

	  	  	
16.96

	
Operator of cutting machine HT

	  	  	
18.11

	
Operator cold folding machine

	
11.63

	
15.03

	
15.54

	
Reception 1 forwarding

	
13.38

	
16.43

	
16.88

	
Technician

	
18.38

	
19.89

	
21.44

	
Technician of support

	  	  	
21.21

 

  

39

  

 

APPENDIX  B

Shift Premium

	
2.1

	
Premium - evening and of night

Any employee assigned to the quarter of evening receives a time bonus of seventy-five hundreds (0.75 $).

Any employee assigned to the quarter of night receives a time bonus of one (1.00$) dollar.

	
2.2

	
Premium - team leader

Premium time of two dollars (2.00 $).

	
2.3

	
Premium -  production

In accordance with the former practice, a bonus of monthly production is versed all to the paid people having finished their period of probation for one month given in the second week of the next month whenever the total monthly production of KVA divided by the total number of work hours per week is higher than eight (8).  The bonus is half expressed as a percentage of the output higher than eight (8). The aforementioned percentage multiplied for each person paid by her monthly regular gross salary indicates the bonus to be poured to him.

Total KVA 1 week of the month

--------------------------------------------------

8 Working hours week of the month

If the result is of 10,8 = 100% 10 = 125%

Increase of 25% of which the half expressed as a percentage (12,5%) is versed precedes some with the people paid by multiplying 12,5% with the regular gross salary of the employee who worked in the month of reference.

The calculation of the bonus is given to the trade union. This bonus is added to the wages for purposes of application of the benefit of convention.

	
2.4

	
Premium - Diligence

A bonus of assiduity to work equivalent to three percent (3%) of the wages of the employee, including the various bonuses, will be weekly versed to each employee present at work according to paragraph 15.01.  However, the use of the hours of disease envisaged in paragraph 32.01 or mobile leave in paragraph 18.01 or split vacancies envisaged in paragraph 19.05 will not cause to penalize the person paid in order to receive the aforementioned bonus.

 

  

40

  

 

	
2.5

	
The premiums mentioned in appendix are integrated into the wages at the end of application of the benefit of the collective agreement.

 

  

41

  

 

LETTER OF

AGREEMENT

Considering the statute of division controls;

Considering that Madam this division;

St the single employee of

The parts are appropriate of what follows:

	
1.

	
The employee will be named at the post of operator controls envisaged with the collective agreement and the wages will be that envisaged at the post of roller.

	
2.

	
This station will not be able to be the object of supplantation or voluntary change, such as envisages it articles 11 and 12 of the collective agreement.

	
3.

	
The only manner of leaving this station will be an abolition of station and the employee will be able to then prevail herself of articles 11 and 12 of the collective agreement.

This agreement forms integral part of the collective agreement.

Source: [{"source": "alea-institute/alea-institute/kl3m-data-edgar-agreements/train-00202-of-00352.parquet"}, [{"source": "alea-institute/alea-institute/kl3m-data-edgar-agreements/train-00202-of-00352.parquet"}]]