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Orientation Pay

Discussion in 'Canadian Truckers Forum' started by Bodhi, Oct 8, 2022.

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  1. Oct 9, 2022 #11
    MartinFromBC

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    I don't have any drivers that HAVE NOT signed a contract!

    Been at it longer than you, and also am an employer.
     
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  3. Oct 9, 2022 #12
    LtlAnonymous

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    I'm CERTAIN there is a resignation clause in something you signed that states they will not pay your orientation pay if you resign before your start work date.
     
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  4. Oct 9, 2022 #13
    MartinFromBC

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    Besides laws no longer matter here.
    We have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, trudeau broke them daily the last 2.5 years, but he isn't in a maximum security prison.
     
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  5. Oct 9, 2022 #14
    ilovetruckz

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    How do I do the laughing emoji on here?

    i've been trucking for 25 years. Been with Bison, Big Freight, Gardewine, etc. Never signed a "contract". lol.
     
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  7. Oct 9, 2022 #15
    LtlAnonymous

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    Maybe you never read it, but I'm quite sure you signed an agreement of some sort.
     
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  8. Oct 9, 2022 #16
    MartinFromBC

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    McDonald's won't even hire you to flip burgers without a signed employment contract.
     
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  9. Oct 10, 2022 #17
    '88K100

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    You should have asked the particulars of orientation compensation before you attended.

    I did orientation once 25 years ago... pay was $100 each day meals and hotel included plus $100 travel both ways. The company was upfront right away as originally they told me 4 days but due to my experience they shortened to 2 days. Mostly meet and greet and show me the facilities. Only hands on was DG paperwork and hooking up a set of trains to take driver service rep for a tour around the city.
     
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  10. Oct 10, 2022 #18
    Bodhi

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    Hey folks,

    Thanks for the replies and feedback -- I did read the employment contract, but I cannot find anything in there about conditions on payment for orientation. I am going to look over the documents again to make sure.

    The company was Qline -- promise the moon, give your uranus. LOL Play of words there. I just find their practices misleading and dishonest. I had to fly out to Saskatoon for orientation and stay in a hotel (which they paid for). But then spend 5 days there because of major screw ups with equipment, which they promised they wouldn't have. At the end of it, giving them plenty of time to fix the issue, I felt they were just blowing smoke up my ### -- plus, if they could't handle this issue, how would they be on a major one.

    Thanks again.
     
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  11. Oct 10, 2022 #19
    MartinFromBC

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    Having been to saskatoon, I don't believe anything good has ever happened there. ;)
     
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  12. Oct 10, 2022 #20
    mudflap77

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    If you worked for any of them you signed a contract.
     
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