COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SASKATOON

b) Upon the written request of an employee, and upon request of the Union, the City shall deduct and pay at the end of each month, to the Union, payments as requested out of the wages due to the employees, union dues, assessments and initiation fees and the City shall furnish to the union the names of the employees who have had the above deductions made to their wages. [...] Where an employee is disabled prior to notice of a layoff or termination, benefits are payable until the earliest of: the period of disability, or the exhaustion of accumulated medical leave credits, or the end of 75 work days, or the employee’s retirement, or the date of separation for any reason other than illness or injury where notice of separation was given before the onset of the illness or. [...] Where the employee continues to be disabled after layoff or termination, the City and the Union shall pay jointly such medical leave claim in the ratio of 7/12 by the City and 5/12 by the Union until a sum equivalent to the total reduction in EI premiums with respect to the Union under the E. [...] An employee who is not entitled to maternity or adoption leave is entitled for unpaid leave not exceeding thirty seven (37) weeks to be taken during the twelve (12) weeks before the estimated date of birth of the child or the estimated date on which the child is to come into the employee’s care, as the case may be, or, the fifty-two (52) weeks following the actual date of birth or the actual date. [...] 19 ii) If the Employer fails to answer any of the steps in the Grievance Procedure within the time limits, the Union may move the grievance to the next step in the procedure.