Common use of Board-Wide Seniority Clause in Contracts

Board-Wide Seniority. Where an employee is to be laid off and there is not a more junior Educational Assistant within the same community, the employee shall be allowed to exercise their seniority on a Board-wide basis. However, unlike in (a) above, where an employee seeks to bump a more junior employee in a different community, she or he shall be required to bump the most junior employee in the community in question who works the same number of hours. Where there is no junior employee in the community in question who works the same number of hours, the employee shall be permitted to bump up in hours. The employee may not bump into a higher rate wage classification unless they have the qualifications, skills and ability to perform the work of the position in question at the time they are seeking to exercise their seniority rights in the opinion of the Board. Prior to allowing an employee to exercise their bumping rights outside of their community, for any layoff that occurs after March 1st, the Board shall have the right to exercise the provisions of Article 18.03 above in the community in which the employee seeks to exercise their bumping rights. As per 18.03 above, the employee would then exercise their bumping rights for the following school year.