Canadian Blood Services (Transport Unit) Collective Agreement 2017-2021

Article 32: Meal Allowance

1. Allocations for meals on both overnight (out-of-town) clinics and on daily mobile clinics held outside and beyond a forty (40) kilometre radius from the site of the Edmonton Blood Service Centre premises, (provided, however, that for the purpose of this Article, Leduc, Stony Plain, Morinville, and Devon shall be considered outside and beyond the forty (40) kilometer radius) and in-town clinics when added to out-of-town mobile circuits, shall be as follows:
   
           Breakfast    $ 9.20    
           Lunch          $11.60    
           Dinner         $20.75
   
   During the life of this agreement, the Employer agrees to adjust the above rate should another union representing Employees of CBS Alberta receive higher meal allowance rates.
    
2. Allocation for breakfast allowance will only be given commencing on the second day of an overnight clinic unless the drivers’ shift for the mobile clinic begins before zero seven hundred (0700) hours.
3. Allocation for lunch on daily mobile clinics will be given only when the clinic team is required to and reports to the Centre for work before twelve hundred (1200) hours, subject to 32.01.
4.  
   1. Allocation for dinner on mobile clinics will be given only when the clinic team returns to the Centre after eighteen hundred (1800) hours, subject to 32.01.
   2. Allocation for dinner on overnight (out-of-town) clinics on the day of the return of the clinic team to the Centre will be given only when such clinic team returns to the Centre after seventeen hundred and thirty (1730) hours.