Memorandum
From: Jean Ouellette, Director of Labour Relations
Subject: Financial Incentives Plan extended for another year
March 16, 2007
CAPE, the Translation Bureau and Treasury Board have agreed to continue the Financial Incentive Plan for 2007-2008 with no changes.
After a number of preparatory meetings, the CAPE negotiating committee decided to bring only the four main irritants to the table:
1. the ceiling of 10% of salary;
2. the ceiling of 50% for leave conversion;
3. TR-03 duties other than translation;
4. the fact that the output requirements are decided unilaterally by the employer.
The employer was unreceptive with regard to these irritants, and no changes could be agreed on. However, the parties did agree that translation memory, which could affect production levels, will be on the agenda for the next meeting of the Professional Services Labour-Management Consultation Committee.
The new MOU will contain some administrative changes. For example, the special provisions for the Technolinguistics Sector will be removed, since it is to be attached to Professional Services from April 1, 2007. As they are every year, some variables used in FIP calculations will be updated.
Lastly, we intend to raise some of the issues discussed at the bargaining table in other fora, in particular at the TR collective agreement bargaining table.
As negotiator, I would like to thank the members of the negotiating committee and CAPE staff who enabled us to prepare well for this round of bargaining.
Special thanks are owed to Stephen Mullen, Lionel Perrin, André Picotte, Claude Poirier and Marc Vallée, who devoted many hours to efforts to secure better working conditions for their TR colleagues. I would also like to thank all the TR members who completed the questionnaire.
“Memorandum of Understanding between the Treasury Board of Canada and the Canadian Association of Professional Employees
Financial Incentives Plan for the Translation Bureau”
From: Jean Ouellette, Director of Labour Relations
Subject: Financial Incentives Plan extended for another year
March 16, 2007
CAPE, the Translation Bureau and Treasury Board have agreed to continue the Financial Incentive Plan for 2007-2008 with no changes.
After a number of preparatory meetings, the CAPE negotiating committee decided to bring only the four main irritants to the table:
1. the ceiling of 10% of salary;
2. the ceiling of 50% for leave conversion;
3. TR-03 duties other than translation;
4. the fact that the output requirements are decided unilaterally by the employer.
The employer was unreceptive with regard to these irritants, and no changes could be agreed on. However, the parties did agree that translation memory, which could affect production levels, will be on the agenda for the next meeting of the Professional Services Labour-Management Consultation Committee.
The new MOU will contain some administrative changes. For example, the special provisions for the Technolinguistics Sector will be removed, since it is to be attached to Professional Services from April 1, 2007. As they are every year, some variables used in FIP calculations will be updated.
Lastly, we intend to raise some of the issues discussed at the bargaining table in other fora, in particular at the TR collective agreement bargaining table.
As negotiator, I would like to thank the members of the negotiating committee and CAPE staff who enabled us to prepare well for this round of bargaining.
Special thanks are owed to Stephen Mullen, Lionel Perrin, André Picotte, Claude Poirier and Marc Vallée, who devoted many hours to efforts to secure better working conditions for their TR colleagues. I would also like to thank all the TR members who completed the questionnaire.
“Memorandum of Understanding between the Treasury Board of Canada and the Canadian Association of Professional Employees
Financial Incentives Plan for the Translation Bureau”