Identification of Surplus Employees. The Joint Redeployment and Planning Team will compare the seniority of employees performing work which requires substantially the same qualifications and experience. In addition the team will compare the qualifications and experience of displaced employees with the qualifications and experience required by lateral or lower rated positions in the Unit of Application and retain the most senior at that level in descending order. Through this process the Joint Redeployment and Planning Team shall decide by consensus which employees within the Unit of Application have greater seniority and shall be retained to fill the ongoing positions and which employees have least seniority and shall be declared surplus subject to (a) and (b) below. Seniority rights apply to lateral and lower rated positions but are not applicable to higher rated positions. The exception to this can occur where there are essentially no lateral or demotional positions with respect to which an employee can exercise his/her Employment Continuity rights and where the JRPT believes there are reasonable opportunities for promotion. The JRPT will identify the individual employee(s) or categories of employees facing these circumstances and the positions or categories of positions that represent promotional opportunities. Employees paid from Schedules 04 will not normally have their seniority considered with employees from Salary Schedule 01. The Joint Redeployment and Planning Team may decide on exceptions when Salary Schedule 04 employees have achieved at least Step 5 and have greater seniority than entry level employees on Salary Schedule 01 or where Salary Schedule 04 is being used as a salary bridge for employees selected to Salary Schedule 01 positions. For the purposes of Subsection 65.6.3 where the Joint Redeployment and Planning Team has agreed to make exceptions based on the above circumstances, such employees paid from Salary Schedule 04 will have priority consideration in the same manner as other Salary Schedule 01 surplus employees. Where the Joint Redeployment and Planning Team does not accept that the circumstances warrant exceptions, surplus employees paid from Salary Schedules 04 will have priority consideration for MP2 and equivalent or lower rated vacancies following consideration of the surplus regular employees from within the bargaining unit and before the applications of all other employees. Employees from outside of the bargaining unit shall not displace Society- represented e...
Identification of Surplus Employees. 36.4.1 In circumstances where there is more than one Employee performing a particular position and some, but not all, of those Employees are surplus to the Employer’s requirements, the Employer will adopt the following process.
36.4.2 The Employer will seek expressions of interest for voluntary early separation from the potentially affected Employees.
36.4.3 The Employer may only reject an expression of interest for voluntary early separation from an affected Employee where the selection of that Employee creates a consequential vacancy or a deficit in the skills required by the Employer.
36.4.4 If the Employer accepts an expression of interest for voluntary early separation from an affected Employee, the Employee will receive their redundancy entitlements in accordance with clause 36.8.2.
36.4.5 Where insufficient volunteers or too many volunteers are forthcoming, the Employer shall determine which Employees are surplus to its requirements taking into account the following criteria:
36.4.5.1 the relative qualifications, skills and abilities between Employees as required for the continuing operation of the Employer;
36.4.5.2 any special qualifications or aptitude for the position(s) continuing to be required to be performed by the Employer; and
36.4.5.3 any reasons, including compassionate grounds, advanced by an Employee as to why they should or should not be identified as surplus.
36.4.6 Where a decision is to be made about Employees who are otherwise considered equal in relation to the criteria in clause 36.4.5, the Employee to be identified as surplus to requirements will be the Employee whose selection causes the least disruption to the continuing operation of the Employer.
