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D-2, r. 5 - Decree respecting solid waste removal in the Montréal region
Section 1.01
Disposition versions
1.01. In this Decree, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following expressions mean:
(1) “helper” : employee who participates in the removal, transportation or unloading of solid waste;
(2) “solid waste” : any waste product solid at 20 °C from industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, detritus, incineration and demolition residue, domestic garbage, rubbish, rubble and other trash solid at 20 °C; any product mentioned above that is collected for the purposes of recovery or recycling is also included.
Automobile bodies, soils and sands soaked with hydrocarbons, pesticides, explosive or spontaneously flammable products, pathological waste, manure, mining residues and radioactive waste, muds and solid residues from pulp and paper mills or from sawmills are excluded;
(3) “class A employee” : employee who has completed 500 hours of work with the employer;
(4) “class B employee” : employee who has not completed 500 hours of work with the employer;
(5) (paragraph revoked);
(6) “unloading” : disposing of waste in a landfill site, a dry materials disposal site, a transfer station, an incinerator, or any other disposal site; this operation includes the treatment or valorization of recyclable materials where such operation is performed by the employees who are assigned to the removal or transportation of solid waste;
(7) “commercial division” : division where the work not included in the municipal division is carried out;
(8) “municipal division” : division where the work is performed under an agreement entered into between an employer and a municipality;
(9) “driver, side-loading truck” : employee whose tasks consist in driving a side-loading vehicle and collecting, without a helper, solid waste;
(10) “removal” : collection, transportation and unloading of solid waste;
(11) “spouse” : means either of 2 persons who:
(a) are married or in a civil union and cohabiting;
(b) being of opposite sex or the same sex, are living together in a de facto union and are the father and mother of the same child;
(c) are of opposite sex or the same sex and have been living together in a de facto union for 1 year or more;
(11.1) “relative” : the employee’s spouse, the child, father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents of the employee or the employee’s spouse as well as those persons’ spouses, their children, and their children’s spouses. The following are also considered to be an employee’s relative for the purposes of this Decree:
(a) a person having acted, or acting, as a foster family for the employee or the employee’s spouse;
(b) a child for whom the employee or the employee’s spouse has acted, or is acting, as a foster family;
(c) a tutor of the employee or the employee’s spouse or a person under the tutorship of the employee or the employee’s spouse;
(d) an incapable person having designated the employee or the employee’s spouse as mandatary;
(e) any other person in respect of whom the employee is entitled to benefits under an Act for the assistance and care the employee provides owing to the person’s state of health;
(12) “continuous service” : means an uninterrupted period during which the employee is bound to the employer by a contract of employment, even if the performance of the work has been interrupted without cancellation of the contract, and a period during which fixed term contracts succeed one another without an interruption that would, in the circumstances, give cause to conclude that the contract was not renewed.
1.01. In this Decree, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following expressions mean:
(1) “helper” : employee who participates in the removal, transportation or unloading of solid waste;
(2) “solid waste” : any waste product solid at 20 °C from industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, detritus, incineration and demolition residue, domestic garbage, rubbish, rubble and other trash solid at 20 °C; any product mentioned above that is collected for the purposes of recovery or recycling is also included.
Automobile bodies, soils and sands soaked with hydrocarbons, pesticides, explosive or spontaneously flammable products, pathological waste, manure, mining residues and radioactive waste, muds and solid residues from pulp and paper mills or from sawmills are excluded;
(3) “class A employee” : employee who has completed 500 hours of work with the employer;
(4) “class B employee” : employee who has not completed 500 hours of work with the employer;
(5) (paragraph revoked);
(6) “unloading” : disposing of waste in a landfill site, a dry materials disposal site, a transfer station, an incinerator, or any other disposal site; this operation includes the treatment or valorization of recyclable materials where such operation is performed by the employees who are assigned to the removal or transportation of solid waste;
(7) “commercial division” : division where the work not included in the municipal division is carried out;
(8) “municipal division” : division where the work is performed under an agreement entered into between an employer and a municipality;
(9) “driver, side-loading truck” : employee whose tasks consist in driving a side-loading vehicle and collecting, without a helper, solid waste;
(10) “removal” : collection, transportation and unloading of solid waste;
(11) “spouse” : means either of 2 persons who:
(a) are married or in a civil union and cohabiting;
(b) being of opposite sex or the same sex, are living together in a de facto union and are the father and mother of the same child;
(c) are of opposite sex or the same sex and have been living together in a de facto union for 1 year or more;
(11.1) “relative” : the employee’s spouse, the child, father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents of the employee or the employee’s spouse as well as those persons’ spouses, their children, and their children’s spouses. The following are also considered to be an employee’s relative for the purposes of this Decree:
(a) a person having acted, or acting, as a foster family for the employee or the employee’s spouse;
(b) a child for whom the employee or the employee’s spouse has acted, or is acting, as a foster family;
(c) a tutor or curator of the employee or the employee’s spouse or a person under the tutorship or curatorship of the employee or the employee’s spouse;
(d) an incapable person having designated the employee or the employee’s spouse as mandatary;
(e) any other person in respect of whom the employee is entitled to benefits under an Act for the assistance and care the employee provides owing to the person’s state of health;
(12) “continuous service” : means an uninterrupted period during which the employee is bound to the employer by a contract of employment, even if the performance of the work has been interrupted without cancellation of the contract, and a period during which fixed term contracts succeed one another without an interruption that would, in the circumstances, give cause to conclude that the contract was not renewed.
1.01. In this Decree, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following expressions mean:
(1) “helper” : employee who participates in the removal, transportation or unloading of solid waste;
(2) “solid waste” : any waste product solid at 20 ºC from industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, detritus, incineration and demolition residue, domestic garbage, rubbish, rubble and other trash solid at 20 ºC, except for automobile bodies, soils and sands soaked with hydrocarbons, pesticides, explosive or spontaneously flammable products, pathological waste, manure, mining residues and radioactive waste, muds and solid residues from pulp and paper mills or from sawmills, and any product mentioned above that is collected for the purpose of recovery or recycling;
(3) “class A employee” : employee who has completed 500 hours of work with the employer;
(4) “class B employee” : employee who has not completed 500 hours of work with the employer;
(5) (paragraph revoked);
(6) “unloading” : disposing of waste in a landfill site, a dry materials disposal site, a transfer station, an incinerator, or any other disposal site; this operation includes the treatment or valorization of recyclable materials where such operation is performed by the employees who are assigned to the removal or transportation of solid waste;
(7) “commercial division” : division where the work not included in the municipal division is carried out;
(8) “municipal division” : division where the work is performed under an agreement entered into between an employer and a municipality;
(9) “driver, side-loading truck” : employee whose tasks consist in driving a side-loading vehicle and collecting, without a helper, solid waste;
(10) “removal” : collection, transportation and unloading of solid waste;
(11) “spouse” : means either of 2 persons who:
(a) are married or in a civil union and cohabiting;
(b) being of opposite sex or the same sex, are living together in a de facto union and are the father and mother of the same child;
(c) are of opposite sex or the same sex and have been living together in a de facto union for 1 year or more;
(12) “continuous service” : means an uninterrupted period during which the employee is bound to the employer by a contract of employment, even if the performance of the work has been interrupted without cancellation of the contract, and a period during which fixed term contracts succeed one another without an interruption that would, in the circumstances, give cause to conclude that the contract was not renewed.
1.01. In this Decree, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following expressions mean:
(1) “helper”: employee who participates in the removal, transportation or unloading of solid waste;
(2) “solid waste”: any waste product solid at 20 ºC from industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, detritus, incineration and demolition residue, domestic garbage, rubbish, rubble and other trash solid at 20 ºC, except for automobile bodies, soils and sands soaked with hydrocarbons, pesticides, explosive or spontaneously flammable products, pathological waste, manure, mining residues and radioactive waste, muds and solid residues from pulp and paper mills or from sawmills, and any product mentioned above that is collected for the purpose of recovery or recycling;
(3) “part-time employee”: employee who has not completed 350 hours of work with his employer during 1 trimester;
(4) “full-time employee”: employee who performed 350 hours of work with his employer during 1 trimester; he is deemed a full-time employee as of the first day of the following trimester and will remain so up to the end of his employment;
(5) “trimester”: period of 3 consecutive months;
(6) “unloading”: disposing of waste in a landfill site, a dry materials disposal site, a transfer station, an incinerator, or any other disposal site; this operation includes the treatment or valorization of recyclable materials where such operation is performed by the employees who are assigned to the removal or transportation of solid waste;
(7) “commercial division”: division where the work not included in the municipal division is carried out;
(8) “municipal division”: division where the work is performed under an agreement entered into between an employer and a municipality;
(9) “driver, side-loading truck”: employee whose tasks consist in driving a side-loading vehicle and collecting, without a helper, solid waste;
(10) “removal”: collection, transportation and unloading of solid waste;
(11) “spouse”: means either of 2 persons who:
(a) are married or in a civil union and cohabiting;
(b) being of opposite sex or the same sex, are living together in a de facto union and are the father and mother of the same child;
(c) are of opposite sex or the same sex and have been living together in a de facto union for 1 year or more;
(12) “continuous service”: means an uninterrupted period during which the employee is bound to the employer by a contract of employment, even if the performance of the work has been interrupted without cancellation of the contract, and a period during which fixed term contracts succeed one another without an interruption that would, in the circumstances, give cause to conclude that the contract was not renewed.
1.01. In this Decree, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following expressions mean:
(1) “helper”: employee who participates in the removal, transportation or unloading of solid waste;
(2) “solid waste”: any waste product solid at 20 ºC from industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, detritus, incineration and demolition residue, domestic garbage, rubbish, rubble and other trash solid at 20 ºC, except for automobile bodies, soils and sands soaked with hydrocarbons, pesticides, explosive or spontaneously flammable products, pathological waste, manure, mining residues and radioactive waste, muds and solid residues from pulp and paper mills or from sawmills;
(3) “part-time employee”: employee who has not completed 350 hours of work with his employer during 1 trimester;
(4) “full-time employee”: employee who performed 350 hours of work with his employer during 1 trimester; he is deemed a full-time employee as of the first day of the following trimester and will remain so up to the end of his employment;
(5) “trimester”: period of 3 consecutive months;
(6) “unloading”: disposing of waste in a landfill site, a dry materials disposal site, a transfer station, an incinerator, or any other disposal site; this operation includes the treatment or valorization of recyclable materials where such operation is performed by the employees who are assigned to the removal or transportation of solid waste;
(7) “commercial division”: division where the work not included in the municipal division is carried out;
(8) “municipal division”: division where the work is performed under an agreement entered into between an employer and a municipality;
(9) “driver, side-loading truck”: employee whose tasks consist in driving a side-loading vehicle and collecting, without a helper, solid waste;
(10) “removal”: collection, transportation and unloading of solid waste;
(11) “spouse”: means either of 2 persons who:
(a) are married or in a civil union and cohabiting;
(b) being of opposite sex or the same sex, are living together in a de facto union and are the father and mother of the same child;
(c) are of opposite sex or the same sex and have been living together in a de facto union for 1 year or more;
(12) “continuous service”: means an uninterrupted period during which the employee is bound to the employer by a contract of employment, even if the performance of the work has been interrupted without cancellation of the contract, and a period during which fixed term contracts succeed one another without an interruption that would, in the circumstances, give cause to conclude that the contract was not renewed.
