Employee Options. A regular employee who is subject to displacement shall have the right to select one of the following options. Upon written presentation of the options, the employee shall have 3 full working days to select an option. This time limit may be extended by the mutual agreement of the Parties:
(a) accept training, if applicable; or
(b) accept placement in a vacant position, either within or outside the bargaining unit, in accordance with the provisions of this Article; or
(c) exercise the bumping rights referred to in this Article; or
(d) accept layoff, retaining the right to recall and to severance pay in accordance with this Agreement; or
(e) accept severance in accordance with Article 9.03 of this Agreement.
Employee Options. A regular employee who has been notified that he/she will be laid off from his/her current position shall have the following options:
(1) Displacing a District employee with less District service in a parallel or lower classification in which the employee held prior permanent or probationary status (“bumping”). For purposes of this section, parallel shall mean a class with a current wage range equal to or no more than 2.5% higher than the wage range of the classification from which the employee is being laid off. If an employee has not held status in a parallel or lower classification, then no displacement rights accrue to that individual. All employees must exercise displacement privileges within five (5) working days after receipt of the Notice of Layoff, by written notice to the Human Resources Manager. If this choice is not exercised within the specified time period, it is automatically forfeited. The employee exercising the displacement privilege will displace employees in lower classifications in the inverse order of seniority. Employees who displace other employees will be paid at the rate for the lower classification.
(2) If an employee has not held status in a lower classification, or if such lower classification is occupied by a more senior employee, the employee shall be entitled to fill a vacant position in another District classification, provided he/she possesses the necessary skills and fitness for that position as determined by the Fire Chief or designee. An employee who is transferred to a vacant position will be paid at the rate of the position. Any employee who does not accept a transfer within five (5) working days after a Notice of Transfer is given, will have automatically forfeited the ability to transfer.
(3) Accepting layoff
Employee Options. Within five work days of receipt of notice of layoff an employee shall opt for one of the following:
(1) severance pay effective the date the layoff was scheduled to occur, in which case the employee shall be deemed to have resigned. A regular employee who is eligible to immediately receive a pension as of the effective date of layoff, and who has opted for and is entitled to severance pay shall, upon application, be entitled to additional pensionable service equivalent in value, as determined by the BC Pension Corporation, to the severance pay compensation. Benefits under this provision shall not exceed the time that would be required to reach the employee's maximum retirement age;
(2) to be placed, effective the scheduled date of layoff, on a recall list for a period of up to one year, for the purpose of recall to a regular position within the seniority block from which the employee has been laid off. Recall of employees from this recall list shall be in order of regular service seniority as of the scheduled date of layoff. Seniority accumulated as an auxiliary employee accepting option (b)(3) below shall not apply. Should an employee decline a recall or fail to respond to a recall within five days (or to a maximum of 28 calendar days where an employee is required to provide notice of resignation to another employer), then such employee shall be deemed to have abandoned all rights under the Collective Agreement;
(3) to be placed onto the auxiliary recall list(s) of the seniority block. This option may be elected along with the option described in (b)(2) above. Such regular employees shall be considered more senior than auxiliary employees for the purpose of the assignment of available auxiliary work. Employees electing this option will be considered to have regular status only for purposes of the benefits contained within Articles 19 and 25. For all other contractual purposes, such employees will be considered to have "on-call" auxiliary status pursuant to Clauses 29.01(b) and 29.06(b). In order to maintain the Articles 19 and 25 benefits, employees must work 1200 hours at the straight time rate for each preceding 12 month period;
(4) a regular employee who has been promoted within six months of the effective date of layoff from another position in the same geographic location may opt to displace the employee currently filling the position originally held by the employee designated for layoff, providing the employee exercising such a displacement option ...
Employee Options. There are two options available to an employee who is otherwise eligible for disability insurance benefits which are as follows:
1. Option 1: Not applying for disability insurance benefits and using accrued paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensating time off, floating holiday pay, and/or, with consent of the Agency/Department Head, discretionary Major Medical Supplemental Paid Sick Leave, or
Employee Options. There are two (2) options available to an employee who is otherwise eligible for disability insurance benefits, which are as follows:
Employee Options. An eligible employee may opt to receive cash for all, or a portion of, the hours on the annual sick leave cash-out eligibility report. The sick leave credits that are received by the employee in cash will be removed from his/her sick leave balance.
Employee Options. (a) Within fourteen (14) calendar days of receiving the notification specified in Article 36.01, the employee shall notify the Deputy Head in writing of their intent to:
(1) accept a transfer,
(2) take early retirement if eligible,
(3) accept a layoff, or
(4) exercise displacement options within the same department or agency, in the same classification series, in the same or lower classification level.
(b) Employees notified of intended layoff under Article 36.01 shall be given preference over new employees or employees who have not been affected by layoff, for appointment to vacant positions for which they qualify at the same or lower classification level. In the event of three (3) or more employees expressing an interest in a position the provisions of Article 37 shall apply. If less than three
Employee Options. Employees laid off shall have any of the following choices:
(a) Displacing the employee in the same department and in the same or clearly comparable classification as determined by the Director of Human Resources as having the least seniority in that classification. This option shall be exercised before any other option.
(b) Taking a voluntary demotion within the department to a classification in which the employee had prior permanent status, thus displacing the employee working in that classification who has the least seniority in that classification. The voluntary demotee's seniority in the classification to which demoted shall be determined by the demotee's dates of hire in the lower classification.
Employee Options. An employee who is given notice of lay-off shall, within 10 calendar days of receipt of such notice, elect one of the following options set out in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c):
Employee Options. Employees have the option of participating in FWA (which is flextime or a flexible 5/4/9- work arrangement).
