Article 46 - Voluntary displacement

46.01

Employees who agree to be temporarily displaced to one of the Employer’s facilities that is twenty (20) or more kilometres, but less than one hundred (100) kilometres, away from their home base are entitled to a lump-sum amount of fifty dollars ($50) per day worked in that facility, in addition to the travel allowance set out in the collective agreement.

When the facility is not accessible by road, the lump-sum amount provided for in the previous paragraph applies even if the facility is less than twenty (20) kilometres away.

When the facility is one hundred (100) or more kilometres from the employee’s home base, the lump-sum amount set out in the previous paragraphs is increased to one hundred dollars ($100).

46.02

Employees who agree to be temporarily displaced to a facility belonging to another institution that is less than one hundred (100) kilometres away from their home base are entitled to a lump-sum payment of fifty dollars ($50) per day worked in that facility, in addition to the travel allowance set out in the collective agreement.

When the facility is one hundred (100) or more kilometres from the employee’s home base, the lump-sum amount set out in the previous paragraphs is increased to one hundred dollars ($100).

46.03

The employee’s voluntary temporary displacement away from their home base, as set out in this Article, is subject to the local and national provisions of their original institution’s collective agreement.

46.04

The employee who is displaced in this way cannot receive, on a daily basis, more than one of the lump-sum amounts set out in this Article.

46.05

The lump-sum amounts set out in this Article are not pensionable and are not included in contributory earnings for the purposes of the pension plan.

46.06

For the purposes of applying this Article, distance in kilometres is calculated on the basis of the shortest route from the employee’s home base to the facility to which they are displaced.