Employee’s Earnings Sample Clauses
Employee’s Earnings. Employees whose position rate is reduced by or more per week, by reason of their positions being abolished or their being displaced will continue to be paid posi- tion rate incidental overtime) to the position permanently held at the time of the change providing that, in the exercise of seniority, they first accept the highest-rated position at their location to which seniority and qualifications entitle them. Employees who fail to accept the highest-rated position for which they are senior and qualified, will be considered as occupying such position and their incumbency shall be reduced correspondingly. Employees entitled to maintenance of who voluntar- ily their seniority beyond their home location on their seniority territory rather than occupy a position at their home location, shall be entitled to maintenance of earnings. Such employees will be treated in the following manner: If the position occupied at the new location is lower-rated than a position which could have been occupied at either the original location or the new location, they shall be considered as occupying the higher-rated position, in either case, and their incumbency will be reduced correspondingly. The maintenance of employee's earnings will continue until: the dollar value of the incumbency above the prevail- ing position rate ‘has been maintained for a of five years, and thereafter until subsequent general wage increases applied basic rate of the position in question erase the incumbency differential; or