Common use of Employee Options Clause in Contracts

Employee Options. Employees laid off shall have any of the following choices: (a) Displacing the employee in the same department and in the same or clearly comparable classification as determined by the Director of Human Resources as having the least seniority in that classification. This option shall be exercised before any other option. (b) Taking a voluntary demotion within the department to a classification in which the employee had prior permanent status, thus displacing the employee working in that classification who has the least seniority in that classification. The voluntary demotee's seniority in the classification to which demoted shall be determined by the demotee's dates of hire in the lower classification.

Employee Options. Employees laid off shall have any of the following choices: (a) Displacing the employee in the same department and in the same or clearly comparable classification as determined by the Director of Human Resources as having the least seniority in that classification. This option shall be exercised before any other option. (b) Taking a voluntary demotion within the department to a classification in which the employee had prior permanent regular status, thus displacing the employee working in that classification who has the least seniority in that classification. The voluntary demotee's seniority in the classification to which demoted shall be determined by the demotee's dates of hire in the lower classification.