Job Security, Lay-Off and Recall to Service. 19.01 The Employer shall take all reasonable steps to provide continued employment of a suitable nature to a permanent employee whose position has become redundant as a result of technological change, discontinuance of a function or other action initiated by the Employer.
(a) The Employer shall give all reasonable consideration to continued employment with the Employer of permanent employees who would otherwise become redundant because work is contracted out.
(b) The Employer shall consult with the Union concerning its plans to contract out work that would result in the loss of employment for bargaining unit employees.
(c) In the event that an employee's position becomes redundant through contracting out and if through the provisions of (a) and (b) hereof a new position cannot be found, the employee so displaced shall receive two (2) months notice or two (2) months pay in lieu of notice at the employee's current rate. If that employee elects to initiate the bumping process contemplated by Article 19.05, the most junior employee who is bumped shall instead be given two (2) months notice or two (2) months pay in lieu of notice at the employee's then current rate.
19.03 In relation to the question of "reasonableness" for the administration of Articles 19.01 and 19.02, the Employer is entitled to include in its considerations the availability of funding, the availability of job vacancies, and the qualifications and abilities of the affected employees.
19.04 When a lay-off of permanent employees is necessary within a given job classification, the employee in the job classification with the least seniority will be the first employee subject to lay-off.
(a) A permanent employee subject to lay-off under Article 19.04 or an employee who is bumped under this clause, may apply to displace a more junior remaining employee in the same or lower classification within two (2) working days of the employee's receipt of written notice of lay-off or bumping, providing the employee has the necessary qualifications, skill and ability to do the job and has greater seniority than the employee they wish to bump.
(b) An employee may refuse to exercise the foregoing right without prejudicing their seniority rights in Article 15.03(e) and (f). Once the employee has made their choice, the employee cannot later change their mind relative to that lay-off.
19.06 If an employee bumps into a lower wage group, the employee shall be paid at the rate of pay in the lower group not less than t...
Job Security, Lay-Off and Recall to Service. Operational Season Lay-off:
Job Security, Lay-Off and Recall to Service. 16.01 Operational Season Lay-Off
(a) For operational season lay-off, employees shall be laid off on the basis of their seniority from their terminal location, department, and classification to which they are appointed.
(b) An employee who is subject to a seasonal lay-off may displace an employee on the seniority list within the terminal location, department, and classification to which he or she is appointed, provided that the employee has the seniority,
(c) An employee who has been displaced under subclause (b) and who has been employed by the company in more than one classification, may displace an employee in his or her immediate former position within his or her terminal location and department, provided that the employee's seniority with the Company is greater than the seniority of the employee being displaced and providing the employee can perform the duties and responsibilities of the immediate former position.
(d) An employee exercising displacement provisions shall be paid at the rate for the position he or she has displaced.
(e) An employee subject to operational season lay-off shall be given as much advance notice as practicable, but, in any event, not less than two (2) weeks’ notice, in writing, before a date specified in the notice, of the Company’s intention to terminate his or her employment on that date, or two weeks wages at his or her regular rate of wages for the regular hours of work, in lieu of such notice.
Job Security, Lay-Off and Recall to Service. The Employer is committed to taking all reasonable steps to provide continued employment to all Bargaining Unit Employees of the Halifax Port Authority. In the event that a reduction in the workforce cannot be met through attrition:
Job Security, Lay-Off and Recall to Service. Article applies to full-time employees only.) The Authority reserves the right to lay-off employees on minimum notice
Job Security, Lay-Off and Recall to Service. The Employer shall take all reasonable steps to provide continued employment of a suitable nature to an employee whose position has become redundant as a result of technological change, discontinuance of a function or other action initiated by the Employer. The Employer agrees that before instituting any technological changes which will materially affect a significant number of employees in the Bargaining Unit, it shall give notice to bargain to the Alliance in accordance with the provisions of the Canada Labour Code and comply with any other provisions of that code in respect to terms and conditions of employment. Where new or greater skills are required than are already possessed by employees affected because of technological change to their position, such employees shall be given a period of on- the-job training not to exceed six (6) months during which they may perfect or acquire the skills necessitated by the new method of operation. There shall be no reduction in wage or salary rates during the training period of any such employee and no reduction in pay upon the position being reclassified. The Employer will continue past practice in giving all reasonable consideration to continued employment the Employer of employees who would otherwise become redundant because work is contracted out. Where the Employer indicates that an operation or function is to be phased out and such action will result in one (1) or more positions becoming redundant, and there being no other positions at same classification level or higher to which such surplus employees may be transferred, the Employer shall, on request, permit the employee to take an accelerated lay-off, in which case the provisions of Clause or as applicable, shall apply. An employee who is about to be laid off for any reason shall be entitled to exercise their seniority rights, displacing a junior employee, provided the employee has sufficient ability to perform the work and the employee makes their choice within five (5) working days of notification of lay-off.
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