May 23, 2020 Update…CIMS Project Manager at Domtar says doing the indocs at home are optional (We say NO period). If you ended up doing one at home record the day and time you started and the finish time if longer than 4 hours. If your pay detail doesn’t show the hours for the indoc notify the union hall.
The statement below was sent to the CLRA and Contractors via email this evening. (May 21, 2020) re: On Site Indoc Only
Doing site indoctrinations from home is not contemplated in our collective agreements and thereby has to be negotiated or enabled.
Our position is that no member can be required to provide a computer or laptop just to do an indoctrination.
Indoctrinations are work for the employer and therefore have to be paid. They are subject to a minimum of 4 hours pay or time worked if over 4 hours. They are subject to overtime rates as per collective agreement for work outside of the normal work week which amounts to double time.
Members cannot be compelled to do these indoctrinations at home because they have not been negotiated and have to be mutually agreed to under enabling.
In the past BAC Local 2 BC has enabled online indoctrinations for members who were capable as long as they were paid 4 hours minimum. Since the contractors have now insisted that [they] do not have to pay four hours minimum, we do not … therefore withdraw the enabling of this, to the extent any such enabling has existed.
Indoctrinations can be done on site only unless some other enabling agreement is reached with the Union.
This union and some other trades are willing to sit down and discuss negotiating some sort of enabling specific to an upcoming job or jobs and perhaps to other jobs generally.
