East Central Ambulance Association Collective Agreement 2025 - 2028

Article 13: Seniority

1.  
   1. Regular or temporary Employees hired prior to the date of certification shall have their seniority calculated according to their date of hire. Employees thereafter will have their seniority start on the date upon which they commenced employment in the bargaining unit.

   2. For Casual Employees whose status changes to regular or temporary, their seniority date once they become regular or temporary shall be established by dividing their continuous hours of work (tour and active duty) in the bargaining unit in the previous three (3) years by two thousand one hundred and ninety (2,190).

   3. Someone who is subsequently determined by the Labour Relations Board to be in the bargaining unit, or has been agreed to by the parties to be in the bargaining unit, the seniority date shall be as established by the Labour Relations Board or as agreed to by the parties.

2. 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 ECAA;  or

   2. when an Employee is absent from work for more than three (3) days without good and proper reason or the approval of ECAA; or

   3. when, for more than three (3) days, the Employee does not return from leave of absence or vacation as scheduled; or

   4. when the Employee does not return from layoff as required, or upon the expiry of twelve (12) months following layoff during which time the Employee has not been recalled to work.

3. A seniority list prepared by ECAA shall be posted showing each Employee’s name and date of hire. This list shall be posted on April 1st and on September 1st of each year. A copy of the list shall also be forwarded to HSAA.