Foothills Regional Emergency Services Commission Collective Agreement 2023-2025

Article 16: Seniority

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   1. The Employer shall provide the Union within two months of the signing of this Collective Agreement, and in January and July of each year thereafter, a listing of employees in order of seniority. For the purposes of this first Collective Agreement this list will be established based on the employee’s original date of hire with FRESC, or its successor organizations, as a regular employee.
   2. For newly hired regular or temporary employees, seniority with the Employer starts on the date on which the employee commences employment in the bargaining unit.
   3. For casual employees whose status changes to regular or temporary or 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 established by dividing their continuous hours worked with the Employer by 2,184.
2. Seniority shall not apply during the probationary period; however, once the probationary period has been completed seniority shall be credited as provided in Article 16.01.
3. Seniority shall be the determining factor in:
   1. preference of vacation time;
   2. layoffs and recalls, subject to the qualifications specified in Article 17;
   3. promotions and transfers within the bargaining unit subject to the qualifications specified in Article 18.
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 to their former classification and full-time equivalency.