Education Assistant Selection Pool. The date and time of the Education Selection Pool shall be agreed upon in the spring between Human Resources and the President of the Education Assistants. Displaced Education Assistants will have the opportunity to select their new assignment from a list of available/vacant positions within his/her job title. Selection Pool Procedures: • Only displaced Education Assistants can participate in the pool and ranked in order by seniority. • All available /vacant positions are listed by job title and will include hours/day, job duties, and qualifications. • Displaced Education Assistants will select positions by seniority within his/her job title. • A full-time Education Assistant displaced due to layoffs or school closings is entitled to a position of 6.5 hours of paid work time. • Part-time displaced Education Assistants do not have the right to select a full- time position, unless there are no full-time Education Assistants in his/her job title without a position. • If there is a position available equal to the Education Assistant’s previous year’s hours, the Education Assistant must select the position, select a position for less hours, or resign. • If the only position availability would result in fewer hours than the Education Assistant worked during the previous year, the displaced Education Assistant may select a lesser position and still be placed on the layoff list, or the Education Assistant may decline to make a selection and be placed on the layoff list. In either case the Education Assistant shall have a right to recall to a position with the same number of hours he/she worked the previous year. • Displaced Education Assistants who fail to choose a position through the selection pool process will be placed in a position after the close of the pool.
