Community Living Services Collective Agreement - British Columbia ...

CSSBA and CSSEA - Community Living Services (03/2012) Page 14
(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.
(c)
Movement Between Agencies
When an employee who was employed by one employer and is subsequently employed by another
employer as a result of a merger , the employee will be credited with seniority in accordance with the
following:
(1) Where the two Employers have a similar method of calculating seniority each employee
moving from one agency to another will be credited with their seniority.
(2) Where the Employers have a different method of calculating seniority, the employee will
have their seniority calculated by their current Employer using the methodology of the new
Employer.
12.2 Seniority List
The Employer will prepare and provide to the Union once every six months an up-to-date seniority list
containing the following information pertaining to its regular employees:
(1) employee's name;
(2) employee's seniority;
(3) employee's current classification;
(4) employee's rate of pay.
This seniority list, except rate of pay, will be posted by the Employer at all worksites for 30 days. Any
objection to the accuracy of the information contained therein must be submitted in writing to the
Employer during the said posting period. Thereafter, the posted list will be deemed to be valid and correct
for all purposes for the duration of that posting period.
The Employer will provide the Union and a union designated employee with a copy of the seniority list
upon request.
12.3 Loss of Seniority
An employee will lose her seniority only in the event that:
(a)
she is discharged for just cause;
(b) subject to Article 12.5 (Bridging of Service), she voluntarily terminates her employment or
abandons her position, as per Article 11.7 (Abandonment of Position);
(c)
she is on layoff for more than one year;
(d) upon being notified by the Employer by priority courier or facsimile at her last known address
that she is recalled from layoff, she fails to contact the Employer with her acceptance of recall within