Common use of DEMOTIONS AND SENIORITY Clause in Contracts

DEMOTIONS AND SENIORITY. (a) When layoffs occur within any classification, the employee with the least seniority in the classification shall be the first employee to be laid off, it being understood that any such employee who is laid off without an expectation of being recalled within the ensuing period of sixty (60) days, shall have the right to be transferred within the same department, to any other classification in which he had previously held seniority rights, and in which the Employer considers him able satisfactorily to perform the full measure of the work required. (b) Any employee transferred to another classification pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph (a), shall have seniority within such other classification according to his length of service in the department, as measured by the date when he commenced his employment in the department.

DEMOTIONS AND SENIORITY. (a) When layoffs occur within any classification, the employee with the least seniority in the classification shall be the first employee to be laid off, it being understood that any such employee who is laid off without an expectation of being recalled within the ensuing period of sixty (60) days, shall have the right to be transferred within the same department, to any other classification in which he had previously held seniority rights, and in which the Employer considers him able satisfactorily to perform the full measure of the work required. (b) Any employee transferred to another classification pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph paragraph (a), shall have seniority within such other classification according to his length of service in the department, as measured by the date when he commenced his employment in the department.