Realignment Sequence. Realignment of position due to layoff, change in home port or vessel permanently taken out-of-service will be in accordance with this Article.
Realignment Sequence. Number of Masters retained in accordance with Masters category seniority. Displaced Masters transferred to Other Marine Employee category and any realignment of positions to be based on Service Seniority. Appointments to regular job vacancies shall be made on the following basis and the decision will rest with the Company. However such selections will be made in consultation with the Guild. All appointments to regular job vacancies shall be made by category seniority subject to qualifications, experience and demonstrated ability. Employees wishing training for relief positions to gain experience for future appointments are to advise the Company of their interest. When the Company is planning such training, Employees shall receive consideration on the basis of seniority subject to qualifications and ability sufficient to do the job. Employees successfully completing training would then be given future relief opportunities as they arise. An Employee who has been laid off will retain his seniority and the right to be recalled for a period up to eighteen (1 months from date of layoff, provided he reports to the Company when recalled, and further provided, that should payment of severance pay under Article be made after the expiration of the twelfth (12) month of layoff, all rights including seniority and recall shall be at end. If an Employee elects to take severance pay, his or her rights of recall and seniority are terminated. An Employee who is given reasonable notice and fails to report for work upon recall is subject to discharge from service. Reasonable notice shall not be less than twenty-one (21) days by Double Registered Mail. An Employee on layoff, who has been employed for less than two months in a period of a year (12 months) shall have the option of collecting severance pay. When an Employee on leave takes employment with another Company within the Marine Industry, he shall be deemed to have terminated employment with the Company from which he took leave. Canadian Merchant Service Guild Harbour Towage Vancouver Inc. Collective April I, -March Page of The provisions of this Article shall not in any way interfere with the Company’s right to discharge for cause, nor shall they preclude the adoption by the Company of a compulsory retirement age for all Company personnel. Where the Company does not universally apply a mandatory age sixty-five (65) retirement policy, no employee over the age of sixty-five (65) who is entitled to take pension benefits sh...
