Criteria and Process for Lay-Off Under Financial Exigency. When a declaration of financial exigency has been confirmed, and no satisfactory provision can be made by the University for the continued employment of all Members and, as a financial exigency may affect the ability of St. Jerome’s University to carry on its mission, a plan for reduction in the number of Members employed by St. Jerome’s University shall be prepared by the President and the VPAD in consultation with the SJUSC and the President of the Association. This plan shall be structured so that the University may continue to operate as far as possible in accordance with its mission, and may propose vertical cuts (involving full or partial program redundancies), across-the-board cuts, or some combination of vertical and across-the-board cuts. Program redundancies will require the approval of the SJUSC. The plan shall also provide that faculty who are to be laid off other than through program redundancies shall be laid off in this order: all non-regular faculty members (which for the purpose of Article 37 means Members as defined under this Collective Agreement) before regular faculty members, and, among regular faculty members, continuing lecturers and definite-term before tenure-track, and tenure-track before tenured appointments.
Criteria and Process for Lay-Off Under Financial Exigency. When a declaration of financial exigency has been confirmed, and no satisfactory provision can be made by the University for the continued employment of all Members and, as a financial exigency may affect the ability of the University to carry on its mission, a plan for reduction in the number of Members employed by the University shall be prepared by the President and the Vice-President Academic, and Xxxxxxx in consultation with Faculty Deans, the Xxxx of Graduate Studies, the Vice-President Research and the President of the Association. This plan shall be structured so that the University may continue to operate as far as possible in accordance with its mission, and may propose vertical cuts (involving full or partial program redundancies as defined in Article 15), across-the-board cuts, or some combination of vertical and across-the-board cuts. Program redundancies will require the approval of Senate. The plan shall also provide that faculty who are to be laid off other than through program redundancies shall be laid off in the order: all non-regular faculty members (as defined through UW Policy 76) before regular faculty members, and, among regular faculty members, definite-term (funded from base budget) before probationary-term, continuing, and tenured appointments. The Faculty Deans, in consultation with their Department Chairs, shall prepare career- averaged performance ratings for all Members within their jurisdictions, and shall submit a ranked list of Members to the President and the Vice-President Academic, and Xxxxxxx. This list, together with the data on which the lists are based, shall be made available to the President of the Association on a confidential basis by the President. The President, in consultation with the Vice-President Academic, and Xxxxxxx, shall make the offers required to Members in redundant programs as specified in Article 15, Section 15.8, and, subsequently shall provide notice to those Members who are to be laid off under program redundancy. The President shall further select those Members who are to be laid off under any across-the-board provision on the basis of: • reverse seniority, except that • individuals with a minimum of three annual performance evaluations and a career- averaged annual performance rating within the top one-third of their Faculty will be exempted from lay-off. Members who are selected for lay-off pursuant to this Article may grieve their selection (under Article 9) only on the grounds of procedur...
