DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

Employer means a person (including partnership or corporation) which does plumbing and pipefitting work and which is signatory to this Agreement, but excludes an employee. B Bi B

Foreperson means a qualified employee who has the ability to accept the responsibility, to take charge of the actual installation of any plumbing and/or pipefitting.

General Foreperson means a qualified employee having three (3) or more forepersons under their direction, for every three (3) forepersons on industrial work the employer shall appoint a general foreperson and on all jobs requiring thirty (30) or more tradespersons, there shall be a General Foreperson for every three (3) forepersons.

Employee means a Journeyperson or Apprentice, as herein defined.

Journeyperson Plumber shall mean a person who has received a certification of qualification in the plumbing trade or holds a valid plumber’s license.

Journeyperson Steamfitter-Pipefitter shall mean a person who has received a certificate of qualification in the steamfitter-pipefitter trade or holds a valid steamfitter-pipefitter license. Notwithstanding the above, Journeyperson Steamfitter-Pipefitter shall also mean a person having long working experience and is known to be qualified as a Steamfitter-Pipefitter who is recognized as a Journeyperson by the trade in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Union or the employer reserves the right to subject any person to a preliminary exam by their examining board prior to dispatching any person to an employer if doubt exists as to their qualifications.

Apprentice shall mean a person who has attended Trade Schoo! and completed a pre- employment course in plumbing or pipefitting under the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Apprenticeship Training and Certification Act.

Work means plumbing, steamfitting, gasfitting, industrial pipefitting, pneumatic or hydraulic pipefitting, instrument piping, all process piping used above and below ground and under water, all heating and stress relieving of pipe, all welding, tacking, and burning connected with the above, and shall include the assembling, erecting, installing, dismantling, repairing, reconditioning, adjusting, altering, servicing and work awarded to the Union pursuant to Article 18 of this Agreement.

Commercial plumbing and pipefitting means all plumbing and pipefitting not covered under the definitions of industrial plumbing and pipefitting, including but not limited to the installation, service and repair of any plumbing and pipefitting work in apartment houses, churches, schools, hospitals, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, factories, stores, shopping centres, municipal pump houses, and/or all buildings that would normally be occupied for commercial and institutional purposes. It also means work on all temporary campsite facilities, bunk houses, cookhouses, warehouses, garages, etc. However, it is understood that work of this nature that is part of an industrial site will be treated as industrial.

Industrial Plumbing and Pipefitting means all plumbing and pipefitting work required in or performed as part of on-site fabrication, construction and erection of heavy industrial developments, including but not limited to: oil refineries, chemical plants, rubber plants, cement plants, smelter complexes, thermal power plants, hydro power plants, nuclear power plants, hydro mettalurgy plants, heavy water plants, paper mills, pulp and sulphite mills, breweries, industrial pump houses, water treatment plants, fish plants over ($50,000) fifty thousand dollars, mechanical and boiler room.

Industrial Maintenance means all plumbing and pipefitting work required in or performed as part of the repair, service and maintenance of industrial developments, other than that of a kind normally required in servicing and maintenance of institutional and commercial buildings.

Grievance means a difference or dispute respecting the meaning or violation of any provision of this Agreement.

Provincial means the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Strike shall be defined as in the Labour Relations Act of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador when it is implemented.

Lock-out shall be defined as in the Labour Relations Act of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador when it is implemented.

In interpreting this Agreement, the Union shall mean the employee and the employee shall mean the Union.

In interpreting this Agreement, the singular shall include the plural and the plural shall 6 ) include the singular.

Newfoundland will mean Newfoundland and Labrador. Bx B.F. a

Service repair shall be limited to work in occupied buildings but will exclude all renovations to said buildings. A Journeyperson plumber may do pipefitting and steamfitting, if capable.