Category: Bulletin

PIPSC/CRPEG has entered into a memorandum of understanding to recognize prior service in Canadian Forces for vacation purposes.  Refer to myAECL 2012 November 8^th Information for Employees on for details on Canadian Forces Recognition of prior service.

CRPEG members with prior service in the Canadian Forces should follow the guidelines in the myAECL announcement and self identify themselves to their HR Administrator.  The vacation entitlement is retroactive to 2012 April 01.

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Retroactive pay from 2011 July 1^st to 2012 Sept 7^th will appear on your November 15^th pay.  This pay includes retroactivity on base salary, overtime and premiums.  Note that your current salary was paid beginning on 2012 September 8^th and was reflected on your September 20^th pay. The retroactive pay is shown in two components:

• “RETRO 2011” for retroactivity from 2011 July 1^st to 2011 December 31^st; and
• “RETRO CURYR PEN” for retroactivity from 2012 January 1^st to 2012 September 7^th.

Please check your pay to verify the retroactivity has been calculated correctly.  Contact a CRPEG Steward if you have concerns about the retroactivity.

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The official signing of the CRPEG collective agreement occurred on 2012 October 25.

Members should expect to see their statement of entitlement from Human Resources within the next 3 months (by 2013 January 25).  Members have 6 months from the date of official signing (2013 April 25) to decide on which option to exercise.  As a reminder, the three options are as follows:

1. Take it all now at salary rate as of 2012 June 30.
2. Take it all at retirement or departure from AECL at the salary rate at time of departure.
3. Take some now and some later.

If you do nothing, then you are deemed to have chosen option 2.

CRPEG does not provide financial advice to members, nor will CRPEG be sponsoring any financial seminars.

The following information is from Canada Revenue Agency (www.cra.gc.ca):

Retiring Allowances:

There are situations when a person can transfer all or part of a retiring allowance to a registered pension plan (RPP) or a registered retirement savings plan (RRSP). For more information, go to Transfer of a retiring allowance.

Transfer of a retiring allowance Employees with years of service before 1996 may be able to directly transfer all or part of a retiring allowance to a registered pension plan (RPP) or a registered retirement savings plan (RRSP). This part is commonly referred to as the eligible portion or the amount eligible for transfer. A retiring allowance may include an eligible portion and a non-eligible portion.

A retiring allowance may be paid over one or more years. The amounts paid in any particular year may be transferred to an RRSP or an RPP. The amounts transferred cannot exceed the employee’s eligible portion of the retiring allowance minus the eligible portion transferred by you in a prior year.

The amount that is eligible for transfer under section 60(j.1) of the Income Tax Act is limited to:

• $2,000 for each year or part of a year before 1996 that the employee or former employee worked for you (or a person related to you); plus
• $1,500 for each year or part of a year before 1989 of that employment in which none of your contributions to the RPP or deferred profit sharing plan (DPSP) were vested in the employee’s name when you paid the retiring allowance. To determine the equivalent number of years of vesting, refer to the terms of the particular plan. The number can be a fraction.

You can only transfer the eligible portion of the retiring allowance under paragraph 60(j.1) of the Act to the employee’s own RRSP or to an RPP under which your employee is the annuitant. The eligible portion cannot be directly transferred to a spousal or common-law partner’s RRSP under paragraph 60(j.1) of the Act. If you transfer the amount to an RPP, you may have to report a pension adjustment (PA). For information, contact your plan administrator.

Your employee may choose not to use all or any portion of the amount eligible for transfer under paragraph 60(j.1) of the Act. If your employee has available RRSP deduction limit, your employee may transfer some or all of the retiring allowance to a spousal or common-law partner RRSP up to his or her RRSP deduction limit.

Your employee may also ask you to transfer some or all of the non-eligible portion of the retiring allowance to his or her RRSP, or to a spousal or common-law partner’s RRSP. The non-eligible portion of a retiring allowance is the amount that exceeds the amount eligible for direct transfer. The part that you transfer cannot be more than the employee’s available RRSP deduction limit for the year.

You do not have to deduct income tax on the amount of eligible retiring allowance that is transferred directly to an employee’s RRSP or to an RPP on behalf of the employee. You also do not have to deduct income tax on any part of the retiring allowance that your employee transfers to a spousal or common-law partner’s RRSP if you have reasonable grounds to believe your employee can deduct the RRSP contribution when filing his or her personal income tax and benefit return. For more information, see the section called “RRSP contributions you withhold from remuneration” in Chapter 5 of Guide T4001, Employers’ Guide – Payroll Deductions and Remittances.

The portion of the retiring allowance paid in each year that is eligible for transfer should be reported in the “Other information” area, using code 66 (code 68 in the case of an Indian). Amounts not eligible for transfer are reported in the “Other information” area using code 67 (code 69 in the case of an Indian). For example, if an employee receives $60,000 payable in instalments of $10,000 over 6 years and has an eligible amount of $40,000, the employee can choose how they want the eligible and non-eligible portions applied to the instalment payments in each year.

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CRPEG Stewards:

New Members at Large:

• Matt Crowe
• Bill Visneski
• David Wang

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CRPEG Stewards:

PIPSC, our parent union, recently received the following thank you letter from PSAC (Public Service Alliance of Canada) for relocating the PIPSC AGM to the National Capital Region from St. John’s.

Pocket size copies of the contract will be distributed to the membership in the future.

We would like to take this opportunity to again thank PIPSC for their support through the negotiation process, especially Jamie Dunn (PIPSC Negotiator), Pippa Gherson (PIPSC Research Officer) and Gary Corbett (PIPSC President).

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Many thanks to all the CRPEG members who attended last night’s AGM.

There was excellent participation and discussion on a wide variety of topics including the CRPEG Scholarship, Proposed Changes to the Engineering Act, Voluntary Termination Package, and Proposed Changes to the Public Service Superannuation Act.

Our thanks also goes to Tim Sykes for his contributions as the Nominations Chair and conducting the Election of Officers.

You will be seeing more of the CRPEG logo as attendees to the AGM received hats and scarves to promote union solidarity in the workplace.

The CRPEG Executive for 2013 is:

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The Executive Page (accessed from the black menu under the CRPEG logo) has been updated with the 2013 executive.  CRPEG stewards are also listed at this location.

CRPEG Executive is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s CRPEG Scholarship is Ewan Craig from Mackenzie Community School in Deep River.  The value of the scholarship is $3000.

Congratulations to Ewan, and we wish him all the best in his studies in Modern Languages at Laurentian University.

Thanks again goes to the CRPEG Scholarship Committee members, Heather Chaput, Peter Poruks and Paul Jones, for their work and dedication in making this year’s scholarship selection.

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