11.01 - EFFECTIVE DATE

This plan shall be effective the date of signing the Agreement, or as soon thereafter as the same can be implemented and shall continue to be binding on the parties to the Agreement for so long as the Agreement is binding between the parties.

11.02 - EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTION

The cost of the Welfare Plans shall be borne by the Company. Abuse, misuse, or misrepresentation to obtain or continue to receive any of these benefits by an employee may be sufficient grounds for dismissal, subject to the grievance procedure.

11.03 - ELIGIBILITY

Each employee shall be entitled to the benefits in this plan subject to the following conditions:

1. If qualified for the present benefit plans on the date this Agreement is signed, they shall be eligible on the effective date of this Plan or;
   
   
2. New employees will be eligible after working for a period of ninety (90) days in any twelve (12) month period.

11.04 - LIFE INSURANCE

1. Each eligible employee shall be insured for $50,000.00.
   
   
2. Each eligible employee shall be insured for $50,000.00 in case of accidental death or dismemberment.
   
   
3. Coverage on the above plans shall be reduced by fifty percent at age 65.

11.05 - MEDICAL, SURGICAL AND HOSPITAL

Each eligible employee shall be insured in the Medical Services Plan of B.C. and in the Company's present Extended Health Benefits Plan.

11.06 - DENTAL

Each eligible employee shall be insured in a Dental Care Plan. Coverage shall be as follows:

1. - Basic - 90%
2. - Crowns & Bridges - 50%
3. - Orthodontia 50% for children up to 18 years.
      $1500.00 lifetime maximum.

11.07 - OPTICAL PLAN

The company to provide prescription eye-glass coverage for each employee and his dependants providing coverage up to a maximum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) every twenty-four months.

11.08 - SICK LEAVE

1. Effective the date of ratification and January 1 each year thereafter each employee shall be granted eight (8) days sick leave for use in the following twelve (12) months. If an employee makes a permanent change from 8 to 10 hours shifts (or vice versa) the employee’s sick time for that year will be prorated to accommodate the change.
   
   
2. An employee's hours of sick leave shall be reduced by the actual hours taken.
   
   
3. Full pay for an employee shall mean the equivalent of their standard daily hours times their job rate of pay, and the payment of sick pay shall not result under any circumstances, in an employee receiving more than full pay on any lost working day.
   
   
4. The Company, at its discretion, may appoint the Doctor to examine the employee. Abuse, misrepresentation or any misuse of the above clause by the employee shall be sufficient grounds for their dismissal.
   
   
5. An employee shall receive unused sick leave pay, paid out at 100% of the rate at payroll year end. "Rate" means their last base rate during the previous year.
   
   Payout of unused sick leave will be made at payroll year end.
   
   When an employee has been off on a WCB, STD, LTD claim for twenty (20) consecutive working days unused sick leave will be prorated using the following calculation:
   
   e.g.   8 days =’s 64 hours divided by 52 weeks =’s 1.23 hours per week 1.23 hours times the active weeks of service.

11.09 - SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM DISABILITY

1. The Company shall provide a weekly indemnity benefit, commencing on the first day of a non-occupational accident, the fourth day of illness, and continuing for a period of seventeen weeks.
   
   Where an employee is disabled due to a sickness or non-occupational accident, a weekly benefit amounting to 66 2/3% of wages (applicable classified hourly rate X 40) be paid to an employee who is off work and under the care of a Doctor for the first seventeen (17) weeks of disability.
   
   
2. The Company will provide Long Term Disability Insurance equal to current Weekly Indemnity commencing at the eighteenth week and continuing until recovery or retirement.
   
   
3. Decisions regarding benefits are made solely by the Third Party benefits provider, and the Company’s obligation hereunder is limited to paying premiums for such coverage.

11.10 - LOSS OF BENEFIT - COVERAGE

1. An employee whose service with the Company has been terminated shall not be entitled to any benefits after his termination date. In the case of a temporary lay-off benefits will cease after ninety (90) calendar days of layoff. For the purpose of this article, employees who work five (5) or less days during this ninety (90) day period shall not be considered to have had their lay-off interrupted.
   
   
2. Employees whose benefits have been discontinued due to temporary lay off as outlined in Article 11.10 (a) above shall be reinstated to full benefit coverage immediately after completing 32 hours work in the bargaining unit.
   
   
3. The Company shall endeavour to inform employees on layoff as to the date benefit coverage will cease.

SECTION 11 - PENSION PLAN

Effective September 1, 1997 all eligible employees shall be enrolled in the Brewery, Winery & Distillery Workers, Local 300 members Pension Plan. On the following basis:

1. Present group RRSP to continue unamended until August 31, 1997, and then to be replaced by the above noted plan.
   
   
2. Type: Money Funded Purchase Plan.
   
   
3. Eligibility: Providing the employee has attained benefit service, after one year's seniority. For those employees who have not attained benefit service, they shall be retroactively enrolled in the plan after having earned 35% of the YMPE in two (2) consecutive years as per the Pension Standards Act.
   
   
4. Participation: Mandatory for all eligible employees.
   
   
5. Vesting: Full vesting after two years of participation in the Plan.
   
   
6. Contributions: Jointly funded as a percentage of the employee's gross wages as follows:

                     Jan 1/06   Jan 1/07   Jan 1/08
   
   Employee Portion    2%         2%         2%
   
   Employer Portion    5%         5%         5%
   

7. Employees may voluntarily increase their contributions, Increases will only be allowed on a percentage basis. Said increases shall in no way impact on the employer's level of contributions.
   
   
8. The employee portion shall be automatically deducted from his/her pay cheque.
   
   
9. The employer shall forward both the employees and the employers portions together with a detailed accounting of each employee's entitlement to the Union office within fifteen days from the end of the month for which the contributions were made.
   
   
10. The company shall contribute 1% to Union Pension Plan subject to equal employee contribution to either Great West Life Plan or Union Pension Plan subject to equal employee contribution to either plan.
    
    Employees with five years of service will receive an additional ½ % contribution by the company to the Pension Plan subject to equal employee contribution to either Great West Life or Union Pension Plan.
    Employees with ten years of service will receive a further ½ % contribution subject to equal employee contribution to either Great West Life or Union Pension Plan.