Prairie Emergency Medical Services Inc. Collective Agreement 2020-2025

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
   2. Seniority is calculated by the length of continuous service. 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 contiguous hours worked with the Employer by the equivalent annual full-time hours of their new position and converting the result to a s seniority date, but will not precede date of hire with the Employer.
   4. Where there is more than one Employee in the bargaining unit with the same seniority date, the parties agree to use each Employee’s surname at the date of hire in alphabetical order as the tiebreaker.
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, station and full-time equivalency.
   4. if the Employee accepts a Temporary out-of-scope position greater than eighteen (18) months or permanent with the Employer, unless mutually agreed to by both parties.