172. Where this Act provides that more than one public institution has its head office in the same region, the Minister determines how the agency’s staff is to be distributed among the integrated health and social services centres and unamalgamated institutions in the region in proportion to their staff or on the basis of available positions, as applicable.
The provisions of the collective agreements that pertain to the total closure of a particular institution and the creation of a new institution, or the total or partial integration of the particular institution into one or more institutions, apply, with the necessary modifications, to the transfer of employees under the first paragraph, whether or not activities are to be transferred to those institutions.
The employees are informed by the agency of the name of their new employer and become, on 1 April 2015 and without further formality, employees of that institution.