Hi, Randy,

Thank you for your patience and understanding, I think that the moretechnology we use, the more problems we encounter,

The Union and the Collective Bargaining Contracts that are negotiated are for the benefit and protection of the Union members and to guard against employers taking advantage of them in terms of wages, benefits, job security and to set a standard,below which an employer cannot go without the imposition of fines and penalties. The Collective Bargaining Contracts do not specify a maximum amount, or a ceiling for wages, or benefits which an employer can offer to his employees and if the employer wants to give his employees more than the Collective Bargaining Contracts call for, he can do so and the union is certainly not going to complain about these additional benefits.

In the situation you described, the offer of additional hourly wages offered by the employer to employees who will work on a holiday is not illegal and it is not discriminatory in nature.It is not illegal because he is offering more than what the Collective Bargaining Contract calls for, so in that regardhe is not going against any terms or offering less than what is required of him by the Collective Bargaining Contract.Neither isit discriminatory in nature because he is making the same offer to all employees.The employer will pay the same rate to all employees who agree to work on a holiday.He is not taking any benefit away from any employee and anyone who wants to work will be paid at the same rate.What would be discriminatory in nature would be if the employer had offered the same increase to all employees, but required only certain employees to work on holidays.The employees wo would berequired to work on a holiday would be the subject of discrimination in that they would have to work for the additionalpay, while other employees would receive the additional pay without having to work for it.

Where an employer needs certain work to be done, but does not have enough employees to produce the work he wants done, the employer can offer “incentives” in order to induce employees to work so that theemployer’s work gets done.People do not normally want to work onholidays, some kind of Incentive must be offered as an inducement.And, this also applies to the offer of additional vacation days which is also offered as an incentive.This too, would be discriminatory ifthe employer offered the extra vacation day to all employees, but required certain employees to work on a holiday in order to be eligible for the drawing to win additional vacation days.

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