Application & Bumping Rights Sample Clauses

Application & Bumping Rights. 1. The employee with the least seniority in the affected class plus seniority accrued from serving in a higher class, shall be laid off first. 2. In determining order of layoff in a lateral class (where an employee moves or has moved from one class to another class at the same salary range) the original class, prior to lateral movement, shall be considered a lower class for purposes of seniority within class. 3. Any employee who, in order to avoid interruption of employment, voluntarily consents to a reduction in hours of employment or assignment to a lower class than that in which the employee has permanence is considered to have taken a voluntary layoff. 4. An employee laid off in one classification, who previously served in an equal or lower classification, may move/bump into that equal or lower classification if their seniority is greater than those employees presently serving in that classification. 5. An employee displaced from their classification as a result of being bumped shall have the same bumping right as set forth in 4 above. 6. If two (2) or more employees subject to layoff have equal hire date seniority in the current classification, the determination as to who shall be laid off shall be made on the basis of the greater hire date seniority into permanent status, and if that be equal, then the determination shall be made by lot.