Guide on Priority Entitlements
From the Public Service Commission
General information
General information
Part I - General information applicable to all priority entitlement types
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Priority types
- 1.3 Nature of entitlements
- 1.4 Priority registration
- 1.4.1 Privacy consent form
- 1.4.2 The manager’s attestation form
- 1.4.3 Dual entitlements
- 1.5 The priority clearance process
- 1.5.1 When to obtain priority clearance
- 1.5.2 Initiating the clearance process
- 1.5.3 Persons with a priority entitlement identified for job opportunities or auto-clearance by the Public Service Commission
- 1.5.4 Priority Information Management System job opportunity identification practices
- 1.5.5 Assessment of persons with a priority entitlement
- 1.5.6 Priority feedback form
- 1.5.7 Request for additional feedback process
- 1.6 Priority clearance numbers
- 1.7 What to do when persons with a priority entitlement self-refer
- 1.8 Travel and relocation costs when considering or appointing persons with a priority entitlement
- 1.9 Making priority appointments
- 1.10 Resolving concerns and problems
- 1.11 Information for monitoring/managing priority entitlements
- 1.12 References
Priority entitlements
Priority Entitlements
Part II - The Priority Entitlements
Chapter 1: Canadian Armed Forces Members Medically Released for Reasons Attributable to Service
- 1.1 Legal basis
- 1.2 The entitlement
- 1.3 Transitional provision
- 1.4 Released for medical reasons attributable to service
- 1.5 The five-year qualifying period
- 1.6 Competent authority
- 1.7 Duration of entitlement
- 1.8 Classification on registration (occupational group/level)
- 1.9 Lower-level appointments
- 1.10 Documents required by the Public Service Commission to support registration
- 1.11 Considerations for effective administration
- 1.12 Travel and relocation costs
Chapter 2: Surplus employees
- 2.1 Legal basis
- 2.2 The entitlement
- 2.3 Duration of entitlement
- 2.4 Refusal of a reasonable job offer
- 2.5 Specified term appointment
- 2.6 Appointment to a lower-level position
- 2.7 Provisions of the work force adjustment agreements related to priority administration
- 2.8 Separate agencies
- 2.9 Documents required by the Public Service Commission to support registration
Chapter 3: Leave of absence returnees/leave of absence replacements
- 3.1 Legal basis
- 3.1.1 Leave of absence returnee
- 3.1.2 The entitlement
- 3.1.3 Duration of entitlement
- 3.1.4 Position not back-filled
- 3.1.5 Position becomes surplus
- 3.1.6 Expiry of priority period/end of employment
- 3.1.7 Protecting severance
- 3.1.8 Specified term appointment
- 3.1.9 Appointment to a lower-level position
- 3.1.10 Documents required by the Public Service Commission to support registration
- 3.2 Leave of absence replacement
- 3.3 Deployment of persons with a leave of absence person priority entitlement
- 3.4 Travel and relocation costs
Chapter 4: Persons laid off
- 4.1 Legal basis
- 4.2 Employer related issues
- 4.3 The entitlement
- 4.4 Duration of entitlement
- 4.5 Specified term appointment
- 4.6 Participating in advertised processes
- 4.7 Appointment to a lower-level position
- 4.8 Provisions of the work force adjustment agreements related to priority administration
- 4.9 Separate agencies
- 4.10 Notes about registration and documents required by the Public Service Commission
Chapter 5: Employee who becomes disabled
- 5.1 Legal basis
- 5.2 The entitlement
- 5.3 The meaning of "disabled"
- 5.4 Date the employee becomes disabled
- 5.5 The five-year qualifying period
- 5.6 Competent authority
- 5.7 Effect of termination of employment on entitlement
- 5.8 Duration of entitlement
- 5.9 Relapse situations
- 5.10 Status when the entitlement expires (termination/continuation of employment)
- 5.11 Confidentiality of medical information
- 5.12 Appointment to a lower-level position
- 5.13 Temporary work - protecting the priority entitlement
- 5.14 Concurrent priority entitlements
- 5.15 Documents required by the Public Service Commission to support registration
- 5.16 Notes for registration
- 5.17 Travel and relocation costs
Chapter 6: Canadian Armed Forces members released for medical reasons not attributable to service
- 6.1 Legal basis
- 6.2 The entitlement
- 6.3 Transitional provision
- 6.4 Released for medical reasons
- 6.5 The five-year qualifying period
- 6.6 Competent authority
- 6.7 Duration of entitlement
- 6.8 Classification on registration (occupational group/level)
- 6.9 Lower-level appointments
- 6.10 Documents required by the Public Service Commission to support registration
- 6.11 Considerations for effective administration
- 6.12 Travel and relocation costs
Chapter 7: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) members discharged for medical reasons
- 7.1 Legal basis
- 7.2 The entitlement
- 7.3 Discharged for medical reasons
- 7.4 The five-year qualifying period
- 7.5 Competent authority
- 7.6 Duration of entitlement
- 7.7 Classification on registration (occupational group/level)
- 7.8 Lower-level appointments
- 7.9 Documents required by Public Service Commission to support registration
- 7.10 Considerations for effective administration
- 7.11 Travel and relocation costs
Chapter 8: Relocation of spouse or common-law partner
- 8.1 Legal basis
- 8.2 The entitlement
- 8.3 Spouse or common-law partner
- 8.4 The leave provisions
- 8.5 Duration of entitlement
- 8.6 Specified term appointments
- 8.7 Removal from the priority information management system at end of the priority entitlement
- 8.8 Status if the priority period expires
- 8.9 Status if the employee's position is back-filled indeterminately
- 8.10 Status if the employee's position is declared surplus
- 8.11 Appointment to a lower-level position
- 8.12 Documents required by Public Service Commission to support registration
- 8.13 Travel and relocation costs
Chapter 9: Reinstatement to original level
- 9.1 Legal basis
- 9.2 The entitlement
- 9.3 Determining eligibility for the entitlement
- 9.4 Duration of entitlement
- 9.5 Higher-level appointment
- 9.6 Salary protection and reinstatement priority entitlement
- 9.7 Refusal of appointment
- 9.8 Responsibility for registration
- 9.9 Documents required by Public Service Commission to support registration
- 9.10 Travel and relocation costs
- Annex A – Supplementary information
Chapter 10: Surviving spouse or common-law partner
- 10.1 Legal basis
- 10.2 Application
- 10.3 The entitlement
- 10.4 Conditions of eligibility
- 10.5 Retrospective provision
- 10.6 Duration of the entitlement
- 10.7 Procedures for the determination of classification on registration (occupational group/level)
- 10.8 Appointment to a lower-level position
- 10.9 Documents required by Public Service Commission to support registration
- 10.10 Supporting tools
- 10.11 Consideration for effective administration
- 10.12 Travel and relocation costs
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