What is the Rule of 90 in the BCMEA pension plan?

Rule of 90 is the unreduced early retirement gate in the Waterfront Industry Pension Plan (WIPP). When your age plus years of pension credit add up to 90, you can retire with no actuarial reduction. DockBook projects your Rule of 90 date from your real logged hours so you know how many more qualifying years you need to hit the gate.

How is BCMEA vacation pay percentage calculated?

Vacation pay scales with years of credited service under the Black Book. Newer workers earn 4 percent, scaling up to 14 percent for top-tier veterans. DockBook tracks your years credited and applies the right rate to your prior-year earnings to estimate the February vacation payout. You also see how an extra week of work moves the dollar amount.

What's A coverage in the BCMEA Welfare Plan?

A coverage is the top benefits tier in the ILWU-Longshore Health Benefit Plan. It requires meeting both a rolling 3-month and a rolling 12-month hour threshold. DockBook tracks your worked hours, vacation, and leave against both windows and flags you weeks before you'd drop, with the exact count of 8-hour shifts needed to recover.

How does DockBook handle stat holiday qualification?

BCMEA stat holiday pay requires you to qualify by working a minimum number of shifts in the 4 weeks before the holiday. DockBook tracks the rolling qualifying window per holiday and shows whether you'll get the full payout, a partial 1/20th, or nothing. The full Black Book rule is shown right on the day, no flipping back to the contract.

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Every line of your paystub. Already understood.

DockBook reads your shift the way payroll reads your shift. Same rates, same rules, same math. By Thursday morning your stub will land, and the numbers will already match.

Stat holiday qualification tracker showing shifts logged inside the qualifying period and current eligibility status

01 · Stat holiday qualification

Know your stat pay before payroll does.

Tap any stat holiday on the calendar and DockBook reveals its qualifying period: which weeks count, how many shifts you've logged inside that window, and exactly where you sit on the threshold. Tracking toward full pay, partial pay, or nothing at all? You'll know before the holiday lands, not after the cheque arrives.

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02 · Pension projector

Your retirement, mapped out shift by shift.

Built from your actual logged hours, not a generic estimator. See how close you are to Rule of 90 retirement, with an estimated reach year. Watch your annual pension credit fill up against the qualifying threshold, with the exact dollar shortfall if you're behind. Plus your projected monthly benefit at 65, and the bridge benefit until then.

New to how the WIPP works? Read the plain-English explainer covering credited service rules, the Rule of 90, the Bridge Benefit, and how the PA eats your RRSP room.

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WIPP pension screen with Rule of 90 tracker at 41 of 90, pension credit shortfall, and estimated monthly benefit at 65

Vacation tracker showing 7 percent entitlement, 9 years credited service, current accrual of 1,273 dollars payable February 2027

03 · Vacation pay estimator

Vacation pay, the way it's actually paid.

Your entitlement rate (7%, 8%, 10%, wherever your years of credited service put you) applied automatically against your real gross. See current-year accrual, what's already been paid out, and what payable February will look like. Service history stacked back to your hire date.

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04 · Benefits coverage alerts

Catch the gap before it costs you.

If your hours start trending toward a coverage drop, DockBook flags it early and shows you exactly how many 8 hour shifts close the gap. The kind of math that hides in the back of the Black Book, surfaced in plain English with weeks to act on it.

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Benefits status showing A Coverage at risk with a Critical badge and an Act By date plus a specific count of 8 hour shifts needed to clear the 3 month path

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The full toolkit, with extras built specifically for BC longshore work.

Auto-calculated pay

Day, night, graveyard, Saturday and Sunday premiums. Job differentials from Container to Crane. Meal allowance. Every line your stub should match.

Retroactive pay calculator

When a new collective agreement is ratified mid-period, see exactly what you're owed. Calculated back to the effective date.

Travel pay calculator

When dispatch sends you out of town, DockBook pays travel time and mileage by the contract zone tables. Allowances applied automatically.

Vacation, medical, personal leave trackers

Auto-populated from logged shifts when you select Vacation Day, Medical Leave, or Personal Leave as the job. Visible on the calendar as V, M, P badges.

Dispatch slip upload

Snap a photo of your dispatch slip and DockBook attaches it to that shift. Encrypted backup, searchable later, never lost in a wallet.

Never lose a shift

Your shift history survives a lost phone, a busted screen, an upgrade. Sync across iOS, Android, and web. Your data never leaves your account.

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