Regular Vacancies. (a) A laid off employee at the time of notice pursuant to Article 23.01 shall be offered a regular vacant position in any classification for which they are qualified and capable (as per Article 23.11) within that Centre/satellite site, in the bargaining unit. (b) Pursuant to Article 23.07 (a), an Employee who accepts a position in a classification with a lower pay scale, shall be placed on the step in the lower pay scale that is equivalent to their basic hourly rate of pay at the time of their layoff or, on the next higher step in the pay scale if no equivalent hourly rate is found. If such placement on the new scale is not possible, the Employee shall be placed on the last step of the new scale. The Employee’s increment date will be adjusted by the same amount of time as the layoff and the new increment date will prevail after that. (c) An Employee who accepts a position under (a) above shall maintain residual right of recall to their pre-lay off classification and FTE during the recall period.
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