Common use of DEMOTIONS AND SENIORITY Clause in Contracts

DEMOTIONS AND SENIORITY. When layoffs occur within any department, the employee with the least seniority in the classification shall be the first employee to be laid off, it being understood that employees who have no expectation of recall for a period of sixty (60) days: (a) Shall be demoted to lower classifications if the employee affected by the layoff has held seniority in the lower classification to which they are being demoted. (b) an employee who has been promoted from one classification to another and subsequently demoted to the lower classification shall within that lower classification have seniority according to length of service in the department and shall, if a layoff occurs, be laid off accordingly and shall be recalled in inverse order to that in which the employee was laid off.

DEMOTIONS AND SENIORITY. When layoffs occur within any department, the employee with the least seniority in the classification shall be the first employee to be laid off, it being understood that employees who have no expectation of recall for a period of sixty (6060 ) days: (a) Shall be demoted to lower classifications if the employee affected by the layoff has held seniority in the lower classification to which they are being demoted. (b) an employee who has been promoted from one classification to another and subsequently demoted to the lower classification shall within that lower classification have seniority according to length of service in the department and shall, if a layoff occurs, be laid off accordingly and shall be recalled in inverse order to that in which the employee was laid off.