Part of Bethany Care Society Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Bethany Care Society Collective Agreement 2020-2024

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    1. For Regular and Temporary Employees, seniority with the Employer starts on the most recent date on which the Employee commenced employment in the bargaining unit.  For Regular and Temporary Employees who have been continuously in the bargaining unit since the date of certification, their seniority will be calculated from their most recent date of hire preceding the date of certification.
    2. For Casual Employees whose status changes to Regular or Temporary, the seniority date shall be established by dividing their contiguous hours by two thousand and twenty-two point seven five (2,022.75), worked since their most recent date on which the Employee commenced employment in the bargaining unit.
    3. For someone subsequently determined by the Labour Relations Board or agreed to by the Parties as being in the bargaining unit, the seniority date shall be the date established by the Labour Relations Board or as agreed to by the Parties.
  2. Seniority shall not apply during the probationary period; however, once the probationary period has been completed seniority shall be credited as provided in Clause 9.01.
  3. Seniority shall be the determining factor in:
    1. preference of vacation time subject to the Vacation Article of this Collective Agreement;
    2. layoffs and recalls, subject to the Layoff & Recall Article of this Collective Agreement;
    3. promotions and transfers within the bargaining unit subject to the Appointments, Promotions, Transfers and Vacancies Article of this Collective Agreement;
  4. Seniority shall be considered broken, all rights forfeited, and there shall be no obligation to rehire:
    1. when an Employee resigns or is terminated from their position with the Employer; or
    2. upon the expiry of twelve (12) months following layoff during which time the Employee has not been recalled to work; or
    3. if an Employee does not return to work on recall as per the Layoff and Recall Article of this Collective Agreement.
  5. The Employer shall provide the Union within two (2) months of the signing of this Collective Agreement and in January and July of each year thereafter, a listing of the Employees in order of seniority in accordance with the provisions of this Article.  This listing shall be provided monthly if there are Employees on layoff.  The Employer will endeavour to provide the list more frequently when available.
     

Employers: Bethany Care Society