Common use of Recruitment and Retention – Mobility of Employees in the Child Welfare Sector Clause in Contracts

Recruitment and Retention – Mobility of Employees in the Child Welfare Sector. The parties to this agreement recognize the value of retaining experienced employees. In order to provide mobility and enhanced service-based rights for employees who may wish to relocate from one agency to another, the following measures are to be enacted: (a) All bargaining unit vacancies that occur at a participating Employer, where the Employer has exhausted their normal internal posting and recruitment processes, shall be included in the job postings on the OACAS website. (b) Employees hired from one agency into another will be required to complete a full probation period as per the collective agreement of the hiring Employer. (c) Where an applicant from a participating Employer is successful in a job competition at another participating Employer, upon moving to the new Employer service-based entitlements for wages and vacation at the new Employer shall be based on the length of his/her most recent period of continuous service. The foregoing does not apply to seniority-based entitlements.