Common use of Reassignment Procedure Clause in Contracts

Reassignment Procedure. An employee is reassigned to a position for which she/he meets the normal requirements of the job, taking into account seniority, applied by reassignment area. The requirements must be relevant and related to the nature of the duties. During the first twelve (12) months following an employee’s layoff, the applicable reassignment area is fifty (50) kilometres. After this period, the applicable reassignment area is seventy (70) kilometres. The reassignment area is a geographic area within a fifty (50) or seventy (70) kilometre radius, as the case may be, by road (following the usual route), centered on the home base where the employee works or on her/his domicile. Reassignment is carried out in the following order: Section I – Reassignment to a comparable position1 A) A full-time employee covered by clause 15.03 is deemed to have applied for any vacant or newly created comparable position with the same status in the institution in which she/he is employed in the reassignment area applicable to the time period that has elapsed since the layoff date, and for which she/he meets the normal requirements of the job. A part-time employee is deemed to have applied for any comparable position with the same number of hours or more than the position she/he held and for which she/he meets the normal requirements of the job.