Job Postings The employee may apply for a job posting at either home based on their seniority at the designated employer. The vacancy will be filled in accordance with Article 9 of the collective agreement. Where seniority is the deciding factor the most senior candidate will be selected regardless of which home her/his seniority was accumulated.
JOB POSTING a) All COPE job vacancies including additions to staff, shall be posted on Employer bulletin boards for a minimum of five (5) working days with the exception of the following: 1. Temporary vacancies involving vacation relief or a duration of less than three (3) months. 2. Jobs at Group 3. 3. Any other jobs as mutually agreed by the Employer and the Union. b) The job posting shall contain all pertinent details such as job title, date of job description, salary range or rate of pay, job group, replacement or addition to staff or new position, duties, qualifications, job location, special conditions, and the closing date of the competition. With agreement of the Union, under exceptional circumstances posting may be waived to permit interdepartmental transfers, promotions within a division, and hiring into entry-level jobs. c) The Employer shall acknowledge receipt of each application for a posted job vacancy and the applicants in each competition shall be advised of the name of the employee selected to fill the vacancy, and the existing job title of successful COPE applicant(s) for BC Transit job vacancies under COPE jurisdiction. A late applicant shall be considered for a posted job provided he was absent from work due to sickness or vacation or away from the employee’s workplace at the time the job was posted, and provided his application is received before another person is selected to fill the vacant position. d) Job selections and promotions under the foregoing shall be on the basis of ability (to perform the vacant job) and seniority, in that order. Where the employee who is junior is selected, his ability to perform the vacant job shall be significantly and demonstrably higher than candidates who have greater seniority. Ability shall mean that an applicant has the formal education, special training and experience required in the applicable job description and posting prepared by the Employer or the equivalent knowledge and skill, and shall also include consideration of the employee’s performance on his present job. Any skills, abilities, knowledge and/or qualifications, which are established for any job, must be reasonably and fairly related to the major job duties to be performed as described in the job description. Where the Employer accepts equivalencies for the skills, abilities, knowledge and/or qualification established for any job posting, such equivalencies will be applied consistently to all candidates. e) Non-COPE bargaining unit employees on the Employer’s regular staff may also apply for jobs covered by this Agreement but in such instance preference shall be given to members of Local 378 in accordance with this Article. f) Although selection of employees under the foregoing paragraphs shall rest with the Employer such selection shall be subject to the grievance procedure.
Postings The posting will include the projected end date of the position. A casual employee who bids into any vacancy pursuant to Article 17.03(A) and (B) above will have her status changed to regular for the duration of the time worked in the temporary position and will then revert to casual status. Internal regular employees will return to their previous status and external candidates will return to their pre-employment status. Employees in these positions will be given a minimum of ten (10) calendar days’ notice of any change to the projected end date of the position.
Shiftwork (A) Where the Employee would have received shift loadings had the Employee not been on leave during the relevant period and such loadings would have entitled the Employee to a greater amount than a loading of 17.5% of the payment under clause 23.1(c), then the shift loadings must be added to the payment under clause 23.1(c)(i) instead of the 17.5% loading. (B) Provided further that if the shift allowance would have entitled the Employee to a lesser amount than the loading of 17.5% then such loading of 17.5% shall be used for the purpose of calculating annual leave loading in lieu of the shift allowance.