Seniority Defined. Seniority is defined as the total length of service in the bargaining unit as an employee, regardless of occupational change. Seniority shall be used as one of the factors in determining preference or priority for promotion, transfers, demotions, terminations and layoff caused by force reductions and recall. Seniority shall operate on a bargaining unit wide basis.
Seniority Defined. Seniority is defined as the length of continuous service as a regular employee in the bargaining unit. Seniority shall operate on a bargaining-unit-wide basis unless otherwise specifically provided by this Agreement.
Seniority Defined. For the purpose of this Agreement:
Seniority Defined.
(a) Seniority shall be defined as the length of the employee's continuous employment with the Employer, and shall accumulate, based on straight-time paid hours since the most recent date of employment with the Employer, including service prior to certification of the Union.
(b) Straight-time paid hours shall include time spent on:
(1) paid holidays;
(2) paid vacation;
(3) leave during which time an employee is in receipt of wage-loss benefits from the WCB pursuant to Sections 29 or 30 of the Workers Compensation Act in respect of a claim from this Employer. For the purpose of this provision, applicable leave shall also include time during which an employee is receiving WCB benefits other than wage-loss benefits pursuant to Sections 29 or 30 of the Act, so long as the employee is otherwise entitled to benefits under those sections;
(4) sick leave;
(5) union leave;
(6) maternity, parental and adoption leave;
(7) other approved paid leaves of absence. For the purpose of parts four and six above, straight-time paid hours shall be estimated based on the average weekly straight-time paid hours in the one-half payroll year preceding the leave. Where the employee has been employed for less than one-half payroll year, straight-time paid hours shall be based on the employee's average weekly straight-time hours paid since date of hire.
Seniority Defined. (a) Seniority includes employment with the Employer prior to certification and will be as follows:
(1) Regular full-time employees will have a seniority date, which includes all seniority as a regular part-time employee and as a casual employee and will include all absences for which seniority continues to accumulate.
(2) Regular part-time employees will accrue seniority based on all hours paid.
(3) Casual employees will accrue seniority on an hourly basis for all hours paid.
(4) For the purpose of part-time and casual seniority, seniority will be credited as all hours paid for and will include all absences for which seniority continues to accumulate.
(5) Upon achieving regular full-time employee status, a part-time or a casual employee will have their hourly seniority converted to a seniority date. The resulting date will be deemed to be the employee's seniority date.
(6) Regular full-time employees who are returned to either part-time or casual status will have their seniority converted to hours.
(b) Notwithstanding the above, each Employer, at the time of ratification, excluding those certifications in Memorandum of Agreement #3 (Re: Existing New Certifications, Future Certifications and Variances) identified as new certifications, will maintain the current system of calculating seniority. Where an Employer has two or more unions representing employees with different methods of calculating seniority, the Unions must select a single system within 30 days of ratification of this agreement. Where they are unable to agree on a single system, the system reference in (a) above will apply.
Seniority Defined. For the purpose of this and component agreements:
(a) Service seniority shall mean the length of continuous service as a regular employee in the Public Service of British Columbia. Regular employees in the Public Service of British Columbia as of June 30, 1974, shall be credited with service seniority equivalent to their length of continuous service as a permanent employee or their length of service as a continuous temporary employee with the Employer prior to that date. Service seniority for part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of one year's service seniority for every 1827 hours completed.
(b) Classification seniority for a regular employee shall be from that date upon which an employee is last appointed to their present classification with the status of a regular employee.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of (b) above, a regular employee who is demoted shall have time previously spent at the level to which they are demoted included in their classification seniority, other than in cases where an employee takes a voluntary demotion in accordance with Clause 12.7 or Appendix 4, Part III or is demoted through no fault of their own. In the latter cases, the employee shall have classification seniority equivalent to all time previously spent at the level to which they are demoted, together with all time spent in any higher classification within the same classification series or related series.
(d) Regular employees of BC Buildings Corporation and those employees who had been employed as regular employees in the Public Service prior to their transfer to a health authority who are appointed to regular positions in the Public Service shall be credited with service seniority equivalent to their length of service with the Crown Corporation or health authority and the Employer subject to the following conditions:
(1) the employee must successfully complete their probation period on appointment to the Public Service; and
(2) there must be no break in regular service between the two employers.
(e) Employees appointed under the Public Service Act who are not members of this bargaining unit will not be credited, for the purpose of layoff and recall, with service seniority until they have completed one year's employment after having been placed into a vacancy within this bargaining unit, except as provided in (f).
(f) Employees who left the bargaining unit to fill a position, within the Public Service, shall be immediately credited, for the purposes of...
Seniority Defined. Seniority shall be defined as the length of continuous service as an employee in a position or positions covered by this Agreement. The effective date of hire shall be defined as the first day on the job for which the employee is compensated at his/her regular rate of pay. An employee who works less than twenty-five (25) hours per week shall receive credit for one-half (1/2) of a year of service.
Seniority Defined. For full-time employees, seniority is defined as the length of service in the bargaining unit since the last date of hire. For part-time employees, a year’s seniority shall be calculated on the basis of 1800 hours paid. Notwithstanding the above, a part-time employee cannot accrue more than one year’s seniority in a twelve (12) month period.
Seniority Defined. Seniority shall be defined as the total eligible hours accumulated from the employee’s date of hire.
Seniority Defined. The term “seniority” as used herein shall mean an employee’s rank with respect to other members of the bargaining unit for the application of the personnel preferences described in this Agreement.
