LAY-OFFS AND RECALLS (a) Both parties recognize that job security shall increase in proportion to length of seniority. Therefore, in the event of a lay-off, employees shall be laid off in the reverse order of their bargaining unit-wide seniority.
(b) The employer shall meet with the union executive prior to a lay-off to review the seniority list and to discuss the order of lay-off. In addition, the parties will look to identify and implement all reasonable alternatives to the proposed lay-off Note: Where a proposed lay-off results in the subsequent displacement of any member(s) of the bargaining unit, the original notice to the union provided in (a) above shall be considered notice to the union of any subsequent lay-off.
12.02 Employees shall be recalled in the order of their seniority.
12.03 New employees shall not be hired until those laid off have been given an opportunity to recall.
12.04 An employee who accepts lay-off or exercises her/his bumping rights or otherwise secures alternate employment within the Agency following a notice of lay-off shall retain the right to be reinstated in his/her former job if such becomes available within nine (9) months of his/her original notice of lay-off.
12.05 An employee shall be given the right to continue their benefit coverage following lay-off. The employer shall continue to pay its share of such insured benefit premiums for a laid off employee for a period of six (6) months following lay-off, or until the employee has found other employment which includes benefit coverage prior to the end of the six (6) month period.
(a) An employee shall have the opportunity of recall from lay-off in order of seniority to the final subsequent vacancy after the job posting provision has been exhausted providing he/she has the ability to perform the work within a reasonable time period, and is qualified.
(b) An employee recalled to work in a different classification from which he/she was laid off shall have the privilege of returning to the classification held prior to the lay-off should it become vacant within six (6) months of being recalled.
(c) The employer shall notify the employee of recall opportunity by registered mail, addressed to the last address on the record with the employer (which notification shall be deemed to be received on the second day following the date of mailing). The notification shall state the job to which the employee is eligible to be recalled and the date and time at which the employee shall report for work. The employee is solely responsible for his/her proper address being on record with the employer.
(d) Employees on lay-off shall be given preference for temporary vacancies, which are expected to exceed ten (10) working days. An employee who has been recalled to such temporary vacancy shall not be required to accept such recall and may instead remain on lay-off. Further such employee recalled to a temporary vacancy is not entitled to any notice of lay-off at the end of the temporary assignment.
Stop Work Orders A. The JBE may, at any time, by Notice to Contractor, require Contractor to stop all or any part of the Services for a period up to ninety (90) days after the Notice is delivered to Contractor, and for any further period to which the parties may agree (“Stop Work Order”). The Stop Work Order shall be specifically identified as such and shall indicate it is issued under this provision. Upon receipt of the Stop Work Order, Contractor shall immediately comply with its terms and take all reasonable steps to minimize the incurrence of costs allocable to the Services covered by the Stop Work Order during the period of stoppage. Within ninety (90) days after a Stop Work Order is delivered to Contractor, or within any extension of that period to which the parties shall have agreed, the JBE shall either (i) cancel the Stop Work Order; or (ii) terminate the Services covered by the Stop Work Order as provided for in this Agreement.
B. If a Stop Work Order issued under this provision is canceled or the period of the Stop Work Order or any extension thereof expires, Contractor shall resume the performance of Services. The JBE shall make an equitable adjustment in the delivery schedule, the Contract Amount, or both, and the Agreement shall be modified, in writing, accordingly, if:
i. The Stop Work Order results in an increase in the time required for, or in Contractor’s cost properly allocable to the performance of any part of this Agreement; and
ii. Contractor requests an equitable adjustment within thirty (30) days after the end of the period of stoppage; however, if the JBE decides the facts justify the action, the JBE may receive and act upon a proposal submitted at any time before final payment under this Agreement.
C. The JBE shall not be liable to Contractor for loss of profits because of a Stop Work Order issued under this provision.
Franchise Fees As compensation for the Franchise granted to the Company, the City shall receive payment of a total annual fee of three (3) percent of gross receipts per year from the Company's sale of electricity to electric-consuming entities inside the City's corporate limits; provided, however, that such fee shall be payable by the Company only if and to the extent the Company is authorized by the Kentucky Public Service Commission (or its successor) to pass through such fee to the entities served by it inside the City's corporate limits; and provided further, the City shall provide the Company a list, in electronic format, of all electric-consuming entities within the City limits that are to be served by the Company, which list shall be updated annually.
LAY-OFF & RECALL Section 1. Whenever it is determined that a layoff is reasonably necessary, the following procedures will apply.
Section 2. All bargaining unit employees in an initial probationary period working in positions affected by the layoff will be assigned to other appropriate positions if available, or, if no other positions are available, shall be laid off prior to displacing any full-time regular employees.
Section 3. Staffing In the event that economic conditions require the layoff of full-time personnel, it is agreed as follows:
a. No layoff shall reduce full-time personnel below three (3) employees working 24/48 schedules.
b. If the City desires to reduce the employee's below three (3), the City must be declared in fiscal emergency by the auditor of state and reopen the contract to negotiate such changes, subject to fact-finding and conciliation if the parties are unable to agree.
Section 4. When it is determined by the Employer that regular full-time employees must be laid off, the employees affected will be laid off within 6 months and according to lowest seniority and lowest EMS certification level first, provided that the employee(s) retained have the immediate skill and ability to perform the jobs to which they will be assigned. ‘
Section 5. No new bargaining unit employees shall be hired until all employees who have been laid off with recall rights have been given the opportunity to return to work. Laid-off employees will be notified by registered mail at their last known address to return to work within fourteen (14) calendar days of the date of notification. Failure to report within the time limit will remove them from the recall list. Employees on layoff are responsible for advising the Employer of their current address.
Section 6. Employees will retain their seniority for a period of twenty-four (24) months or the amount of their accrued seniority whichever is shorter and may be reinstated during this period. Employees will be recalled in reverse order of their layoff subject to their skill and ability to perform the job to which they are recalled.
Section 7. Upon layoff, an employee shall be paid for accrued but unused vacation and compensatory time. Such payment shall be included with the employee's last regular pay check.
Complete Work without Extra Cost Except to the extent otherwise specifically stated in this contract, the Contractor shall obtain and provide, without additional cost to the City, all labor, materials, equipment, transportation, facilities, services, permits, and licenses necessary to perform the Work.
Stop Work Order (a) NYSERDA may at any time, by written Order to the Contractor, require the Contractor to stop all or any part of the Work called for by this Agreement for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the Stop Work Order is delivered to the Contractor, and for any further period to which the parties may agree. Any such order shall be specifically identified as a Stop Work Order issued pursuant to this Section. Upon receipt of such an Order, the Contractor shall forthwith comply with its terms and take all reasonable steps to minimize the incurrence of costs allocable to the Work covered by the Order during the period of work stoppage consistent with public health and safety. Within a period of ninety (90) days after a Stop Work Order is delivered to the Contractor, or within any extension of that period to which the parties shall have agreed, NYSERDA shall either:
(i) by written notice to the Contractor, cancel the Stop Work Order, which shall be effective as provided in such cancellation notice, or if not specified therein, upon receipt by the Contractor, or
(ii) terminate the Work covered by such order as provided in the Termination Section of this Agreement.
(b) If a Stop Work Order issued under this Section is cancelled or the period of the Order or any extension thereof expires, the Contractor shall resume Work. An equitable adjustment shall be made in the delivery schedule, the estimated cost, the fee, if any, or a combination thereof, and in any other provisions of the Agreement that may be affected, and the Agreement shall be modified in writing accordingly, if:
(i) the Stop Work Order results in an increase in the time required for, or in the Contractor’s cost properly allocable to, the performance of any part of this Agreement, and
(ii) the Contractor asserts a claim for such adjustments within 30 days after the end of the period of Work stoppage; provided that, if NYSERDA decides the facts justify such action, NYSERDA may receive and act upon any such claim asserted at any time prior to final payment under this Agreement.
(c) If a Stop Work Order is not cancelled and the Work covered by such Order is terminated, the reasonable costs resulting from the Stop Work Order shall be allowed by equitable adjustment or otherwise.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 12.01, the maximum amount payable by NYSERDA to the Contractor pursuant to this Section 12.01 shall not be increased or deemed to be increased except by specific written amendment hereto.
LAY-OFFS When a lack of work exists and it becomes necessary to reduce the work force, employees shall be selected as surplus in the inverse order of their seniority from the classification and shall be considered for placement to another job for which the employee is qualified to perform efficiently within a reasonable training period in the order of the following successive steps:
2.1 on vacancies in the employee's classification,
2.2 displace in the employee's classification another employee who has the shortest seniority and further provided that the surplus employee has more seniority than the employee to be displaced. If the employee is not thus placed, then
2.3 in the next lower classification and in the same manner in successively lower classifications.
2.4 A surplus employee who cannot be placed in accordance with the above shall be laid off. However, employees subjected to layoff shall not suffer any loss of seniority, provided the employee returns to work within a six (6) month period.
2.5 A surplus employee may elect to fill a vacancy in a lower classification or be laid off.
2.5.1 “Must hire” process
a. In the event that insufficient appropriated funding to work locations within the District results in the displacement of bargaining unit employees, the District will assign employees as “must hires.”
b. Employees will be offered placement in openings within their job title and classification nearest the location from which they were displaced. Seniority will determine priority in placement. The employee may choose an alternate vacancy in the event of multiple vacancies. A list of all job placements will be provided monthly to the Union. If there are no vacancies in the employee’s job title, the employee may choose to enter another job classification for which he/she is qualified to perform. In accordance with Article 15, paragraph 3, if there is a vacancy in a higher classification, the employee may apply in accordance with Article 12, paragraph 4.
c. When the District declares a “hiring freeze” to all outside personnel, all vacancies will be open to transfer until they are filled. Jobs will be posted for current employees. Once it has been determined that there is an internal “qualified” applicant, the vacancy will be filled in accordance with Article 12, paragraphs 3 and 4.
d. This section gives direction only to displaced employees by creating an end of month summary of job placements and establishing a process by which positions are offered.
Computer Equipment Recycling Program If this Contract is for the purchase or lease of computer equipment, then Contractor certifies that it is in compliance with Subchapter Y, Chapter 361 of the Texas Health and Safety Code related to the Computer Equipment Recycling Program and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality rules in 30 TAC Chapter 328.
Product Sales Subject to Sections 10.3(c) and 10.3(d), Licensee agrees that it will not sell, offer for sale, or assist third parties (including Affiliates) in selling Product except for the sale and offer for sale of (A) TAF Product, TAF Combination Product, TDF Product and TDF Combination Product for use in the Field and in the countries of the TDF-TAF Territory, (B) COBI Product and COBI Combination Product for use in the Field and in the countries of the COBI Territory, and (C) EVG Product, EVG Combination Product and Quad Product for use in the Field and in the countries of the EVG-Quad Territory.
(i) Licensee agrees that during the period in which the Patents are valid and enforceable (on a Product-by-Product basis) it will prohibit its Distributors from selling Product (A) to any other wholesaler or distributor, (B) outside the Territory for which Licensee is licensed for sale of such Product pursuant to Section 2.2, or (C) for any purpose outside the Field.
(ii) Licensee agrees that it will not administer the TAF Quad to humans, or sell the TAF Quad until Gilead has obtained marketing approval for the TAF Quad from the FDA. Licensee agrees that it will not administer EVG to humans, or sell Products containing EVG until Gilead has obtained marketing approval for an EVG Product from the FDA. Licensee agrees that it will not administer COBI to humans, or sell Products containing COBI until Gilead has obtained marketing approval for a COBI Product from the FDA. Licensee agrees that it will not administer TAF to humans, or sell Products containing TAF until Gilead has obtained marketing approval for a TAF Product from the FDA. If Gilead obtains marketing approval from the FDA for any Quad Product or a Combination Product containing TAF, COBI or EVG (“Approved Combination Product”) prior to obtaining marketing approval for a TAF Product, EVG Product or COBI Product from the FDA, then Licensee will be allowed to administer such Quad Product or such Approved Combination Product to humans, and sell such Quad Product or such Approved Combination Product from and after the date of such marketing approval from the FDA, but will not (A) administer to humans or sell Combination Products containing EVG other than such Quad Product or such Approved Combination Product until Gilead has obtained marketing approval from the FDA for an EVG Product, or (B) administer to humans or sell Combination Products containing COBI other than such Quad Product or such Approved Combination Product until Gilead has obtained marketing approval from the FDA for a COBI Product or (C) administer to humans or sell Combination Products containing TAF other than such Quad Product or such Approved Combination Product until Gilead has obtained marketing approval from the FDA for a TAF Product.
LAY-OFF AND RECALL 13.01 In the event of a proposed lay-off of a permanent or long-term nature, the Employer will:
(a) Provide the Union with at least ninety (90) days’ notice.
(b) Meet with the Union to review the following:
(i) the reasons causing the lay-off;
(ii) the service which the Employer will undertake after the lay-off;
(iii) the method of implementation, including areas of cutback and the nurses to be laid off.
13.02 In the event of a proposed temporary lay-off, a bed cutback or a cutback in service, the Employer shall provide the Union with reasonable notice. If requested, the Employer shall meet with the Union to review the effect on nurses in the bargaining unit.
13.03 Any agreement between the Employer and the Union resulting from the review above concerning the method of implementation will take precedence over the terms of this Article.
(a) A lay-off shall be defined as any reduction of a nurse's hours of work and/or a permanent discontinuation of a position.
(b) In the event of a lay-off, nurses shall be laid off in the reverse order of seniority. Subject to the foregoing, probationary nurses shall be first laid off. Casual part-time nurses shall not be utilized while full-time or regular part-time nurses remain on lay-off, unless all laid off nurses have been offered and declined any available work. An offer will have been deemed to have been made and declined when the Employer has attempted to contact the nurse by telephone and there is no answer or a message is left with a person or on an answering machine for the nurse to contact the Employer within a specified period of time and this contact is not made by the nurse. For an offer of a permanent or temporary rotation, in excess of thirty (30) days, if the telephone contact was unsuccessful, the Employer will notify the nurse by registered letter. The offer will be deemed to have been made and declined if the Employer does not receive a written response from the nurse within ten (10) calendar days.
(c) A nurse who has been notified of an impending lay-off may:
(i) accept the lay-off; or
(ii) exercise the right to bump or displace another nurse who has lesser bargaining unit seniority.
(d) Nurses shall be recalled in the order of seniority, unless otherwise agreed between the Employer and the Union.
(e) Where a vacancy occurs in a position following a lay-off hereunder as a result of which a full-time or part-time nurse has been transferred to another position, the affected nurse will be offered the opportunity to return to her/his former position providing such vacancy occurs within six (6) months of the date of lay-off. Where the nurse returns to her/his former position, there shall be no obligation to consider the vacancy under Article 12.05
(a) (i). Where the nurse refuses the opportunity to return to her/his former position, she/he shall advise the Employer in writing.
(f) No reduction in the hours of work shall take place to prevent or reduce the impact of a lay-off without the consent of the Union.
(g) All full-time and part-time nurses represented by the Union who are on lay-off will be given a job opportunity in the full-time and part-time categories before any new nurse is hired into either category.
(h) A full-time nurse shall maintain her full-time status and recall rights when accepting temporary or part-time recalls. It is understood that a nurse doing such a temporary vacancy will receive the percentage in lieu of benefits as per Article A.02 (e).
(i) Full-time and part-time lay-off and recall rights shall be separate.