Exercise of Seniority. An employee may use seniority under this Agreement only when employed in a bargaining unit position or when applying for a vacant bargaining unit position.
Exercise of Seniority. An employee who does not exercise their seniority as per article 14.2 will be considered to be on lay-off as per the provisions of Article 14.
Exercise of Seniority. Laid off employees, at the time of lay off, may exercise their seniority in accordance with the following criteria:
1. Current certification
2. Educational training in the above defined categories.
3. Current highly qualified requirements of the Michigan Department of Education and the ESEA/NCLB Act of 2001.
4. Seniority
5. Pre-school teachers refer to 19-A (1)
Exercise of Seniority. Facility Maintenance Technician seniority (by classification) will be used in bidding for shift assignments, layoff recalls, and transfers.
Exercise of Seniority. Insofar as possible, when the same will not interfere with the operation of the station office, office seniority shall prevail in the choice of days off and vacation scheduling.
Exercise of Seniority. When VPAD’s are divided into more than one period, seniority can be exercised in the second choice only after all other affected employees have had the opportunity to make a first choice, and seniority can be exercised in a third choice only after all other affected employees have had the opportunity to make a second choice and so on.
Exercise of Seniority. (a) Preference in assignment to runs within a zone will be given to the senior engineer provided he is fully qualified for that service. NOTE: Certain zones have been subdivided into two (2) or more sub zones. In those zones, the restrictions covering movement between sub zones will apply.
(b) All new runs or assignments will be listed in the Crew Management System for a period of seven (7) days. Engineers within the zone of the new run or assignment may exercise seniority to said run or assignment upon request to the Crew Management Center during the 7 day period. At 12:01 a.m. Of the 8th day, the senior engineer, who is protecting the assignment or the senior engineer in another sub zone who has claimed the assignment will be assigned thereto. Should the assignment be awarded to an engineer in another sub zone the engineer will not be permitted to cross sub zone lines and protect the new assignment until after 12:01 a.m. of the eighth day. New runs or assignments not filled in accordance with the above will be filled by assigning the senior demoted engineer within the jurisdiction of the supply point. If there are no demoted engineers in the jurisdiction of the supply point, the senior demoted engineer within the zone will be assigned. On zones that have been subdivided, the senior demoted engineer within the sub zone will be assigned ahead of demoted engineers from another sub zone. NOTE 1: It is understood that the "7 day period" will begin at 12:01 a.m. of the first day a new assignment or job is established and end at 12:01 a.m. on the eighth (8th) day. A new assignment will be considered "established" as the first day it actually works.
Exercise of Seniority. An employee who is laid-off, displaced or whose position is abolished shall, provided they have completed their probationary period and has the qualifications to perform the work, with a maximum of the (10) working days of familiarization in the application of (d) below, exercise their seniority in the following manner:
Exercise of Seniority. An engineer returning from annual vacation or authorized leave of absence may exercise his seniority to any position bulletined during his absence.
Exercise of Seniority. Recognized holidays shall not be included in either of the PTO vacation bid periods. Each employee shall be given an opportunity, in order of seniority, to express a preference prior to posting of holiday schedules as to whether the employee should work the holiday or be off the holiday. Employees who elect to work on a holiday will elect to work a shift within their work agreement. Holiday schedules will be filled as follows:
a. Regularly scheduled employees who elect to work the holiday, in order of seniority.
b. Casual employees who elect to work the holiday or who must work the holiday in order to meet their casual requirement, in order of seniority.
c. Regularly scheduled employees who did not want to work the holidays, in reverse order of seniority. Employees required to work under Item c will not be guaranteed to work a shift within their work agreement, though every effort will be made to provide a shift matches. Holiday schedules created prior to May 3, 2008 will remain in effect. No employee will be required to work on all of the “Big Three” holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day) in a holiday season, unless the employee agrees to work all three holidays. Employees may be required to work two of the “Big Three” holidays if required to do so in the process outlined above. Casual employees must be available to work two holidays per year, one of which must be Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s. OWATONNA and ST. XXXXXXX: The current practices for granting holidays off shall continue through New Year’s Day 2009, at which point the practice will convert to the general contract language. If 70% or more of employees in a department prefer their current process to the general contract language, they may elect to keep the current process in a secret ballot election prior to January 1, 2009.
