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TRUCKIERS' HOS * Canada - OTA urges diligence in HRSDC overtime pay survey
There's discrepancies in how local drivers and highway truckers get paid
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -22 Sept 2009: -- Researchers are looking into "prevailing industry practice(s)" for establishing overtime pay for short-haul truck drivers and the Ontario Trucking Association wants to make sure it's done right... According to the OTA, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) is undertaking a survey of carriers in the Mississauga, Ont. area, which "could have significant implications … as the results of the survey will establish the legal definition of a "city" driver for the purpose of paying overtime for all Mississauga carriers"... Based on should be paid overtime as city drivers if they traveled. After much hard work, HRSDC was convinced to re-do the survey and they found that the local practice was actually to use a 16 km radius of the home terminal (as is stated in the regulation). It is important that a similar misunderstanding does not occur in the Mississauga area... Under Part III of the Canada Labour Code "City Drivers" are entitled to overtime after 45 hours in a week or 9 hours in a day while highway drivers get overtime after 60 hours in a week... A truck driver is deemed to be a city driver when he operates exclusively within a 16 km radius of his or her home terminal; or is classified as a city motor vehicle operator in a collective agreement; or when they would be defined as a city driver according to the prevailing industry practice in the geographical area where the driver is employed... HRSDC inspectors conduct surveys to determine this last criteria by differentiating, among other things, between city drivers and “highway drivers" and how each are paid overtime...(Image Canadian Truckers' Logo)
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