GROCERY. Where, as a condition of employment, the Employer requires attendance at a school or training establishment, and where a fee is charged for such instruction or training, the fee shall be borne by the Employer.
GROCERY. Store means a retail establishment primarily selling pre-packaged and perishable food as well as other convenience and household goods.
GROCERY. In the event the Employer is not able to obtain enough qualified voluntary employees in the needed classifications, qualified employees in the needed classifications shall be selected to work on Easter Sunday by order of inverse seniority. Sunday ratios of full-time to part-time employees, as provided for in this Agreement, shall not apply on Easter Sunday.
GROCERY. The Employer recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining rep resentative for all store grocery department employees, including part- time employees, except store managers, assigned managers, meat depart ment employees, guards, watchmen and all executive and supervisory employees of stores which are located in the Counties of Kings, Queens, Bronx, New York, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Xxxxxx and Dutchess, serviced by the Employer’s Bronx and Long Island Divisions.
GROCERY. The Employer reserves the right to designate which stores shall have department heads.
GROCERY. Part-time employees who desire to work twenty (20) hours a week or more shall be guaranteed twenty (20) hours’ work as scheduled by the Company.
GROCERY. Seniority for full-time employees shall be measured on the basis of service within the Eastern Region covered by this Agreement, except that in the Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester and parts of Dutchess and Xxxxxx counties, such seniority shall be measured on the following two divisions of the Employer’s division: Layoffs and rehiring of such employees shall be based upon seniority within the unit. Permanent transfers and promotions within the Employer unit shall be based on fitness and ability with seniority a factor only when all other things are equal.
GROCERY. Any full-time employee who is laid off and fails to report for work when recalled from the layoff within seven (7) days (unless excused for a longer period by the Company’s employment office) after the Com pany has deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, a regis tered letter directed to the Union and to such employee at his last known address as shown by the records of the Company, shall terminate his seniority.
GROCERY. Such temporary transfers shall be successively made on the basis of unit seniority in the store. Seniority shall not apply in cases involving temporary transfers to new or remodelled stores but em ployees subject to such transfers shall not again be transferred, except in order of seniority. The present assignment of an employee to another store on a regular relief basis shall not be considered a transfer.
GROCERY. Each and every clause of this contract shall be deemed sepa rable from each and every other clause of this contract to the end that in the event that any clause or clauses shall be in violation of any law, then and in such event, such clause or clauses only to the extent only that any may be so in violation, shall be deemed of no force and effect and unenforceable without impairing the validity and enforceability of the rest of the contract including any and all provisions in the remainder of any clause, sentence or paragraph in which the offending language may appear.
