Associated Ambulance & Services (Whitecourt) Ltd., Collective Agreement 2020-2025

Article 43: Severance

1.  
   1. Severance will be offered as a result of organizational changes that result in the permanent reduction in the number of Regular Employees in the bargaining unit.
   2. Notwithstanding paragraph 43.01(a) above, severance shall not be offered where the permanent reduction in the number of Regular Employees in the bargaining unit occurs as a result of a Regular Employee’s position moving or being moved into a different functional bargaining unit.
   3. A Regular Full-time Employee shall be eligible for severance pay in the amount of two (2) weeks regular pay for each full year of continuous employment to a maximum of forty (40) weeks’ pay, unless the Employer provides one hundred eighty (180) days’ notice.
   4. Regular pay shall be defined as regularly scheduled hours of work as at the date on which notice of layoff is issued (which for the purpose of clarity means regularly scheduled hours of work exclusive of overtime hours, call-back hours) X basic rate of pay (which for the purpose of clarity means basic rate of pay exclusive of overtime payments and premium payments).
   5. For purposes of severance, continuous employment will be calculated from the last date of hire recognized with the Employee's current Employer.
2. A Regular Employee who has received layoff notice in accordance with Article 26.01 and for whom no alternate vacant position is available in the station, shall have the option to select either:
   1. layoff with recall rights as specified in Article 26 of the Collective Agreement; or
   2. layoff with recall rights as specified in Article 26 of the Collective Agreement; or
3. A Regular Employee who accepts severance pay shall have terminated their employment, with no further rights to recall.
4. An Employee who has been terminated for just cause or who has resigned or retired shall not be eligible for severance.
5.  
   1. Employees who select severance will not be eligible for:
      1. rehire by any Employer or agency funded directly or indirectly by the Employer paying the severance.
         
         For the period of the severance (which for the purpose of clarity means the period of time equal to the number of weeks of severance paid to the Employee).
   2. The Employee may be considered for hire by Associated Ambulance & Services (Whitecourt) Ltd, provided they repay the Employer from whom severance was received, the difference, if any, between the time they were unemployed and the length of time for which the severance was paid.
6. Severance pay provided under this Article shall be deemed to be inclusive of any and all legislative requirements for termination notice.