Canadian Blood Services (Transport Unit) Collective Agreement 2017-2021

Article 12: Promotions and Vacancy Posting

1.  Vacancies
   1. If the Employer determines that a driver vacancy exists, the Employer shall post such notices of vacancies electronically for regular full-time, regular part-time and temporary positions for not less than six (6) calendar days prior to an appointment being made. The Employer will provide a copy of the vacancy notice to the Union.
   2. When circumstances require the Employer to fill a vacancy before the expiration of six (6) calendar days, the appointment shall be made on a temporary or relief basis only.
   3. All vacancies shall be filled whenever possible by Employees from within the Department.
2. All applications for promotion or vacancy within the bargaining unit shall be submitted through the Employer’s online application tool.
3. 1. Applicants for promotions or vacancy shall be informed in writing of their acceptance within five (5) calendar days of the date of the appointment. Unsuccessful applicants shall also be notified within this time period.
   2. The name of the successful applicant shall be given to the Union within five (5) calendar days of the appointment.
4. In making promotions and filling vacancies, contributing factors are skill, training, knowledge, efficiency and other relevant attributes, and where these factors are considered by the Employer to be relatively equal, seniority shall be the deciding factor.
5. All promotions shall be on a trial basis.  The promoted Employee will be given a trial period of three hundred (300) hours worked in which to demonstrate their ability to perform the new task to the satisfaction of the Employer.  Should such Employee fail to succeed during the above-mentioned trial period, or should the Employee request to return to their former position/status, the Employer will reinstate the Employee in their former position/status without loss of seniority.  The trial period may be extended for up to an additional three hundred (300) hours worked by mutual agreement of the Employer and Union. The Employer shall provide an evaluation of the Employee prior to the extension of the trial period.
6. When an Employee is promoted from one classification to another, the salary of such promoted Employee shall be advanced to that step in the scale which is next higher than their current rate or to the step which is next higher again if such salary increase is less than the Employee’s next normal annual increment.
7. As a result of a promotion or filling a vacancy, an Employee’s anniversary date for the purpose of an annual increment shall not change.
8. Subject to meeting the requirements of the posted vacancy, members of the bargaining unit will be given first consideration over external applicants when vacancies are filled.
9. Upon request, the Union shall be provided with relevant information regarding the competition in question.
10. 1. Employees, at the time of hire, or transfer, shall be issued a letter stating their employment status, their eligibility for benefits, their basic rate of pay, and their number of hours of scheduled work per pay period as determined over a seven (7) week period. These hours are not to be construed as a guarantee of hours of work or pay.
    2. In the case of temporary Employees, the letter will identify the approximate duration of the assignment.