Employees will be credited with half(1/2) months of service during each calendar month of the Employment Sharing Agreement and will not be subject to the provisions of Article 1.02(b) of the Agreement. The birthday and/or date of service of an employee for the purposes for which an incumbent in a position that has become temporarily vacant due to job sharing is subject to the collective agreement. The contract for approximately 7,000 public servants, represented by the Nova Scotia Union of Government and General Employees, expires on March 31, 2021. The Parties agree that the Employer will not incur any additional costs arising directly from a job sharing agreement, with the exception of the performance costs provided for in this Section and/or the Collective Agreement. A deficit of staggering magnitude and a statement by Premier Stephen McNeil that restraint will not wait could lead to difficult contract negotiations on the horizon for much of Nova Scotia`s public service. 1) discrimination that violates the law or this Agreement; (b) preference is given to workers with a longer term of office within the meaning of Section 1.02; However, these employees must be transferred to the work unit for six (6) months before they can use seniority to prioritize leave selection. a member shall be appointed by the Union. The third member to be chaired shall be appointed by mutual agreement of the parties. If the Parties do not agree on the President within thirty (30) business days of the signing of this Agreement or within thirty (30) days of the vacancy of the office of President, the President shall be appointed by the Public Service Personnel Committee. (1) for employees with less than one (1) year of service, 100% of the normal salary for the first twenty (20) days of absence and thereafter 75% of the normal salary for the following eighty (80) working days of absence; Subject to the operational requirements of the service, the Assistant Director shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure that an employee`s written request for leave is approved.

If, when planning the leave, the deputy head is unable to comply with the employee`s written request, the deputy head or designated officer must: (l) one (1) additional day per year that, in the opinion of the employer, is recognized as a provincial or civic holiday in the territory where the employee is employed; or, if such an additional day is not recognized as a provincial or civil holiday, the first Monday in August. (a) part-time workers are entitled to overtime pay under the collective agreement if they exceed the normal weekly hours of full-time work, unless the applicable hours of work are biweekly; in this case, overtime is paid if the part-time worker works more than the full-time working time every two normal weeks. (a) each year during its first sixty (60) months of service in the amount of one and a quarter (1 1/4) days for each month of service; three (3) weeks in the first five (3) weeks, the employee has control over the request for transportation, e.B. in the areas of protection of personal services, etc.; Employment sharing agreements will only be approved if operational requirements allow and service delivery is not affected. If the job sharing is rejected, the employer must explain in writing to the employee why it was rejected. d) The employee entitled to a recall must return to the employer`s services within two (2) weeks of notification of the dismissal, unless the employee is unable to do so for good reasons. An employee who has been notified of the recall may refuse to exercise this right without affecting the right to a future recall, except in the case of a recall of the same job classification or the same set of job classification titles of the employee and the same geographic location at the time of dismissal, in which case it is removed from the recall list. However, an employee`s refusal to accept a recall of the same job classification title or series of job classification titles in the same geographic location at the time of dismissal will not result in the loss of recall rights in the case of a recall for casual work or for short-term employment in which the employee is otherwise employed. One of the hallmarks of the Prime Minister`s time at the head of government was difficult negotiations, which often resulted in imposed contracts and laws that circumvented the terms of agreements in his government`s favour. Many of these treaties are now being challenged in court on the grounds that they are unconstitutional.

(a) A worker who terminates his or her employment, either by retirement or by leaving the employment relationship, and who is immediately entitled to a pension in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Superannuation Act and immediately accepts it, shall receive a public service award of one (1) week`s salary for each year of full-time service up to a maximum of twenty-six (26) years. The amount includes a pro-rated payment for a partial year of service. The employer agrees that it will endeavour to introduce technological changes in such a way as to minimise as far as possible disruptive effects on workers and services to the public. (b) (1) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of Article 1.02, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, a worker who receives a salary of more than ten (10) days during that calendar month shall be credited with one (1) month of service-related benefits and therefore one (1) month of service-related benefits. (a) does not result in the provision of a satisfactory service to the public; (c) each year after one hundred and eighty (180) months of service of two and one twelfth (2 1/12) days for each month of service; five (5) weeks after fifteen (15) years of service. In accordance with Article 35 of the Agreement, employees continue to be covered by the provisions of the Civil Service Pensions Act. During the period of job sharing, the worker`s pensionable service is equal to the service credits accumulated in accordance with section 40.07 and the worker`s pensionable income is based on the gross salary received for the period of pensionable service. For the purposes of this section, “worker” means a permanent employee or a temporary or seasonal worker with three (3) years of service or more. Explanation of the rights and obligations arising from membership of the Union, the role and structure of the Union, including trade union delegates, and the provisions of the collective agreement.

If a seasonal worker with eighteen (18) months of service from the date of appointment (continuous or not) or three (3) seasons from the date of appointment, whichever is lower, must be dismissed for reasons other than (c) a new employee who bears the name of 1. Avril, has his maximum right of vacation for the first fiscal year in proportion to the number of months of service he will accumulate during the fiscal year of appointment. (a) the right of a public servant to a public service premium is based on the total service provided by a worker within the meaning of Section 1.02. In the interest of the safety and health of workers in the workplace, the employer conducts an ongoing first aid training program to provide a first aid officer for each department. (c) Contracting Parties may agree that students recruited for special projects are not members of the collective bargaining unit and the employer shall determine their rate of pay. This agreement must not be unreasonably refused. (2) Cumulative months of uninterrupted full-time employment in total, where uninterrupted employment in the departments, chambers, commissions and agencies listed in Schedule 5 was a combination of full-time and uninterrupted employment in the non-public and public sectors. However, the next day, McNeil said the effort would immediately begin to find new ways to generate revenue and realize potential savings. The Prime Minister said that the civil service must be part of this effort. 2) Harassment or intimidation by other employees, supervisors, managers, any other person who works in the workplace or provides services to the employer, clients or the public. (a) For the purposes of this article, seniority shall be defined as the length of uninterrupted service from the last date of appointment to the civil service; Of the 308 collective agreements with the public sector, 68 percent are expiring or about to expire, according to a provincial government spokesman. The distribution includes 44 contracts expired and 165 expiring by the end of 2020.

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