Goldbar Wastewater Treatment Plant. 2. Edmonton Water Treatment Plants with Distribution and Transmission Operations (including Rossdale, X.X. Xxxxx, and other work locations) When lay-offs are to be implemented, the Company will commence the process by first reviewing the highest level classification affected. The permanent employee within the site who was last appointed to a position in the class to be reduced will be the first employee removed from the classification. Where the employee removed from the classification is senior to an employee in the same classification at a different site, the employee will be eligible to displace the least senior employee within the classification provided he is qualified and able to perform the duties of the position. Employees so affected will be eligible to revert to the next lower classification, providing that the employee is qualified and able to perform the duties of the position. Such employees will use their overall Union jurisdictional seniority for positioning within the lower classification. The overall Union jurisdictional seniority will become the date of the appointment to the lower classification. In the event that an employee is unable to perform the duties of the next lower classification, is not qualified, or has less overall Union jurisdictional seniority than other incumbents, he will continue to revert to the next lower classification until he is eligible to receive a position and is able to fulfil the duties or is ultimately laid off. Employees reverting to lower classifications will use their overall Union jurisdictional seniority to displace an employee with less Union jurisdictional seniority. Employees who revert to the Labourer II classification must be able to perform the duties of the position but in the event that they do not possess the formal qualifications for the position, they will be allowed one year to acquire the formal qualifications. In the event that they do not acquire such qualifications, they will be laid off. If, prior to the implementation of a layoff, an employee had been allowed to remain in a classification without possessing the formal educational qualifications required for the classification, then such employee will be deemed to possess all of the formal educational qualifications for all lower level classifications. Displaced employees who choose not to accept an alternate position or who have no alternate position to bump into as a result of the lay-off process, will be laid off.
