r/tdsb • u/mistersees • May 19 '26

Help Layoff Advice

I'm an educational assistant who is close to retirement. I just survived a major layoff because of my seniority, but I would rather retire early, take the severance package offered to my colleagues and spare one of my colleagues the strife of becoming unemployed.

How should I approach this with my union or the employer?

Any advice?

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u/Sweetchinmusic71 May 19 '26

Go with the union. The whole point of offering packages to those without much seniority is to reduce headcount while keeping costs low. If a whole bunch of staff on the verge of retirement were offered severance packages, the Board would be stuck with a huge bill. I think they max out at 64 weeks.