Protection of Employees
 2. (1) The county or a local board thereof shall offer to employ every person who was employed by a participating local municipality or a local board thereof on the date a by-law passed under subsection 209 (2) of the Municipal Act, as that subsection read on December 31, 2002 comes into force and continuously for a period of not less than six months immediately before that date and who during that period was primarily engaged in providing the waste management function the county has assumed under the by-law.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 815, s. 2 (1); O. Reg. 408/02, s. 2. (2) Any person who accepts employment under subsection (1), (a)  is guaranteed employment with the county or local board for the one-year period next following the commencement of employment with the county or local board; and (b)  shall be credited with the same seniority that he or she had with the participating local municipality or local board on the date the by-law came into force.  O. Reg. 30/94, s. 1 (1). (2.1) During the one-year period mentioned in clause (2) (a), the person shall receive a wage or salary not less than the person was receiving on the date the by-law came into force. O. Reg. 30/94, s. 1 (1). (3) The county or local board thereof shall be deemed to have elected to participate in the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System on the day before the by-law under subsection 209 (2) of the Act comes into force in respect of a person employed under subsection (1) if the employee was or was entitled to be a member of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System on the day immediately preceding his or her employment with the county or local board thereof and the employee, (a)  shall have uninterrupted membership or entitlement to membership, as the case may be, in the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System; and (b)  shall be deemed not to have resigned from his or her previous employment.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 815, s. 2 (3). (4) On the day a person is employed under subsection (1), the county or local board shall be deemed to have established a sick leave credit plan for the person and shall transfer to the plan the sick leave credits standing to the credit of the person in the plan of the participating local municipality or local board on the date the by-law comes into force.  O. Reg. 30/94, s. 1 (2). (5) Subsection (4) does not apply so as to require the county or a local board thereof to establish a sick leave credit plan other than to recognize the sick leave credit being transferred under that subsection.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 815, s. 2 (5). (6) The county or local board thereof shall, during the first year of employment of a person employed under subsection (1), provide for vacation with pay equivalent to those to which the employee would have been entitled if he or she had remained in the employment of the participating local municipality or local board.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 815, s. 2 (6). (7) The county or local board thereof shall be deemed to be a municipality for the purposes of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Act.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 815, s. 2 (7). (8) Nothing in this Regulation prevents an employer from terminating the employment of an employee or reducing or eliminating the salary or wage rate, seniority or benefits of an employee for just cause. O. Reg. 30/94, s. 1 (3). Financial Adjustments