Filling Vacancies From Within a Cost Center. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the opportunity for UVMMC to fill vacancies within a cost center in the employee’s job classification. This section may not be utilized to change individual work assignments within the same shift or schedule, unless expressly permitted by the cost center. Bargaining unit employees may be granted the opportunity to apply within their cost center for vacancies in their job classification if the bargaining unit em- ployee requesting a change has submitted a Preference Card to their immediate supervisor by e-mail. Preferences may include: • Increase/decrease number of hours • Preferred shift • Preferred block • Weekend scheduling • Other preferences identified by a cost center to address its specific needs A list of Preference Cards submitted by bargaining unit employees will be maintained in the cost center and will be readily available for bargaining unit employees to review. This list will be updated after any Preference Card is submitted. Qualified bargaining unit employees who have timely submitted a Preference Card shall have first consideration for filling vacancies within their cost center and job classification. Preference Cards will be honored on the basis of Cost Center Seniority, first among those cards submitted at least 8 weeks before the supervisor is notified in writing of the impending vacancy, and second among all other cards. The qualified bargaining unit employee with the highest Cost Center Seniority will be offered the change and then the second highest, until the change is complete. UVMMC may elect not to provide the shift or schedule change to the most senior bargaining unit employee if the skills and abilities of that employee are required to maintain coverage in specialty areas. UVMMC agrees to provide training and education to help all bargaining unit employees achieve the skills and abilities necessary to maintain coverage in specialty areas. If following this process does not fill the vacancy and if the manager chooses to fill the vacancy it may be submitted to Human Resources for posting to xxxxx- dates outside the cost center. For the purposes of this Section, the cost centers of Nutrition Services shall be combined.
