Bumping Under Layoff. 1. Those employees who do not have an assigned position by reason of job elimination through departmental reductions may use seniority for purposes of bumping with the following limitations: a. If an employee chooses to exercise his/her bumping rights, he/she shall bump the least senior employee within the job classification currently held. b. No one shall be permitted to bump into a higher classification than currently held. c. When an employee has been bumped from his or her current classification, he or she may, by reason of past experience, bump into a job classification formerly held, provided experience in that position is greater than the employee with the least seniority in that classification. d. Only years of experience in a job classification may be used for purposes of bumping. e. Any employee who is displaced by reason of bumping and unable to qualify to a former position, will be placed in a "pool" to later fill vacancies as they occur. f. Employees reassigned by reasons given above shall retain all Employer experience credit for salary purposes in whatever assignment he/she is assigned. g. Any employee working in an assignment classification lower than that formerly held may have first opportunity to apply and be considered for vacancies as they occur from time to time. h. Employees will receive the salary applicable to the job classification that he/she is employed in. i. Any employee refusing an available assignment will not be granted re-employment rights under this Agreement "Rehire Policy."
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
