Types of Appointments A. Regular Appointments for positions scheduled to work twelve (12) months per year.
B. Cyclic Appointments for positions scheduled to work less than twelve (12) full months each year due to known, recurring periods in the annual cycle when the position is not needed or due to known budgetary restraints.
(1) At least fifteen (15) calendar days before the start of each annual cycle, incumbents of cyclic positions will be informed in writing of their scheduled periods of leave without pay in the ensuing annual cycle. Such leave without pay will not:
(a) Constitute a break in service and will not be deducted from the employee’s length of service in granting periodic increments.
(b) Be considered when computing the employee’s vacation leave accrual rate.
(2) When additional work is required of a cyclic position during a period of which the position was scheduled for leave without pay, the temporary work will first be offered to the incumbent. The incumbent will be allowed at least three (3) working days in which to accept or decline the offer.
(3) When additional pre-scheduled work is available during the leave without pay period that is declined or cannot be completed by the incumbents, the work will be offered to Cyclic Appointment employees prior to internal employees, students, or external candidates. The work will be offered in the following order, based on seniority:
(a) Cyclic Appointments in the same job classification.
(b) Cyclic Appointment in different job classifications with the desired skills and abilities to perform the work.
(4) Employees who elect to accept work in a different job classification will be compensated at the rate of pay of the position they have accepted. However, if an employee accepts work in a lower classification and their current rate of compensation falls within the pay range for that classification, they will maintain their current rate of pay within the lower classification.
(5) Both the Employer and the Union are encouraged to utilize the Joint Union Management Committee process to resolve problems/concerns related to the cyclic leave without pay assignments.
C. Temporary Appointments Temporary appointment may be made only to (a) perform work in the absence of an employee on leave for more than six (6) consecutive months or (b) perform work which does not exceed one thousand fifty (1050) hours in any twelve (12) consecutive month period. At the conclusion of a temporary appointment a permanent employee shall have the right to revert to his/her former position or to an equivalent position. No temporary appointment shall take the place of employees laid-off due to lack of work or lack of funds.
CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT 11.1 The Issuer will pay to the Agents a remuneration for all services rendered hereunder by the Agents in connection with the Notes together with any expenses incurred as separately agreed in a fee letter dated as at the date hereof and executed by the Agents and the Issuer.
11.2 The Issuer will indemnify and hold harmless each of the Agents against any loss, liability or expense which it may incur or any claim, action or demand which may be made against it arising out of or in connection with such Agent’s appointment or the exercise of its powers and duties hereunder without gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of such Agent.
11.3 Each Agent will indemnify and hold harmless the Issuer against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Issuer or any claim, action or demand which may be made against the Issuer resulting from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of such Agent (or such Agent’s officers, employees or agents) and arising out of or in connection with such Agent’s duties hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstances will any Agent be liable to the Issuer or any other person for any consequential loss (being loss of business, goodwill, opportunity or profit) even if advised to the possibility of such loss or damages.
11.4 The indemnities above shall survive the termination or expiry of this Agreement.
11.5 Each of the Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction or communication from the Issuer or any document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties in accordance with the provisions hereof, except such as may result from its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct or that of its officers, employees or agents. Each of the Agents shall be entitled to do refrain from acting under any instruction, without liability, if the instructions received are conflicting, unclear or equivocal.
11.6 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agents do not assume any relationship of agency and trust for the Noteholders, and shall not have any obligation towards them except that all funds held by the Fiscal Agent for payment of principal of or interest on the Notes shall be held for payment to the Noteholders and shall be applied as set forth herein and in the Conditions. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, no Agent will be required to segregate any funds held by it hereunder from any of its other funds.
11.7 Nothing herein shall be deemed to require any Agent to advance its own funds in the performance of its duties hereunder.
11.8 The Agents may consult with legal and other professional advisers selected in good faith and satisfactory to them and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and without negligence and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers.
11.9 The Agents shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties as are herein specifically set forth, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Agents. No Agent shall be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which it expects will result in any expense or liability of such Agent, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. The obligations of the Agents hereunder are several and not joint.
11.10 The Agents, their affiliates and their respective officers and employees, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes with the same rights that the Agents would have it they were not the Agents hereunder.
11.11 The Issuer undertakes that:
(a) it will provide to any Agent all documentation and other information required by such Agent from time to time to comply with any Applicable Law forthwith upon request by such Agent; and
(b) it will notify any relevant Agent in writing within 30 days of any change that affects the Issuer’s tax status pursuant to any Applicable Law. It shall be the sole responsibility of the Issuer to determine whether a deduction or withholding is or will be required from any payment to be made in respect of the Notes or otherwise in connection with this Agreement and to procure that such deduction or withholding is made in a timely manner to the appropriate Authorities and shall promptly notify each relevant Agent upon determining or becoming aware of such requirement. The Issuer shall notify each relevant Agent a minimum of 5 Business Days prior to the date on which any payment for which a deduction or withholding is required of (i) the amount of such deduction or withholding and (ii) the relevant Authorities to whom such amount should be paid. The Issuer shall provide such Agent with all information required for such Agent to be able to make such payment.
