East Central Ambulance Association Collective Agreement 2025 - 2028

Article 11: Promotions, Transfers and Vacancies

1.  
   1. Where ECAA proposes to fill a vacancy for a regular or temporary position, ECAA shall post within the Department notices of the opportunity for not less than eight (8) calendar days.

   2. In making promotions and transfers, experience, performance and qualifications applicable to the position shall be the primary consideration. Where these factors are adjudged by the Employer to be relatively equal, seniority be the deciding factor.

   3. ECAA may consider internal and external applicants.
   4. The notice of posting referred to in clause 11.01 (a) shall contain the following information:
      
      Duties of the position;
      1. qualifications required;
      2. hours of work;
      3. status of position (regular or temporary), and expected term if a temporary position;
      4. salary, and
      5. station location of vacancy.

   5. ECAA shall forward to HSAA copies of the postings of vacancies of all positions within the bargaining unit as outlined in Article 11.01 (a) within three (3) calendar days of the posting.

   6. The name of the successful applicant shall be given to HSAA in writing within three (3) calendar days of the appointment.
2. All applications for transfer or promotion shall be made in writing to ECAA.
3. Successful applicants for transfer or promotion shall be informed in writing of their
   acceptance within seven (7) calendar days of the date of the appointment.
4. In filling vacancies, making promotions, transfers, the determining factors shall be qualifications, skill, training, knowledge, efficiency, and other relevant attributes, and where these factors are considered by ECAA to be relatively equal, seniority shall be the deciding factor. Such decisions by the ECAA shall be made in good faith and without discrimination as defined in Article 6.01.
5. All transfers and promotions shall be on a trial basis. The transferred or promoted Employee will be given a trial period of three (3) months in which to demonstrate the ability to perform the new task to the satisfaction of ECAA. Should such Employee fail to succeed or request to return to former position during the above-mentioned trial period, ECAA will make a sincere effort to reinstate the Employee in their former position without loss of seniority, or if such reinstatement is not possible, place the Employee in another suitable position without loss of seniority and at a rate of pay equivalent to that of their former position.
6. When an Employee is promoted to a classification assigned a higher salary scale, the Employee will be advanced to a step in that higher scale that provides for an increase of at least one (1) increment value from the Employee’s existing salary level. The Employee’s anniversary date for the purposes of their next increment shall be the date of their promotion.