HSP — Asked & Answered

Dovetailed Seniority List (DSL) and Dovetailed Seniority List Area (DSLA) — the dovetailed seniority list is used for the purposes of vacancy, posting, bumping and recall. Facilities included in each list were initially determined by a decision of the Labour Relations Board in 2002. Individual DSLAs may have changed as a result to subsequent bargaining between the parties.

DSLAs apply to worksites that are directly owned and operated by the health authorities, except for the Provincial Healthy Services Authority. Employees of denominational facilities and affiliated agencies are not included in the DSLAs.

Refer to the following PDF document: HSP Casual Benefits By Article.

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Regular employees are entitled to be paid compassionate leave to deal with the death of a family member or relative. Members may also be granted paid time for traveling.

The time off for compassionate leave does not have to be consecutive and does not have to be at the time of death. The leave is for the purpose of grieving and the process of grieving for each individual is different:

• Full-time employees are entitled to 21.6 hours for compassionate leave with an additional 7.2 hours available under the Article 20-Special leave provisions.
• If travel is required, an additional 14.4 hours with pay are available under this article.
• Compassionate leave is pro-rated for part-timers.

A regular full-time employee earns special leave credits with pay at the rate of 3.6 hours every four weeks. A regular part-time employee's accrual of special leave credits is pro-rated.

Members can earn up to a maximum entitlement of 180 hours. Once the maximum is reached, the accumulation only starts again when the member has drawn down their bank through use of special leave. Casual employees are not entitled to special leave.

Types of special leave include: marriage, paternity, and serious illness of spouse or child.

To get more EIP information, please refer to the following document: http://www.hsabc.org/webuploads/files/HSPBA_EIP.pdf

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To find more information regarding Pensions, refer to http://mpp.pensionsbc.ca.