Implementation of Layoffs within Classification Series. Paraprofessional and Secretarial Employees: When implementing layoffs within the Paraprofessional and Secretarial classifications series, the following additional provisions shall apply:
a. Employees may exercise their seniority rights to bump a less senior staff member if their position is eliminated, reduced by sixty (60) minutes or more per day, or reduced by enough hours to move them into a different employment status or to cause loss of a wholly employer paid benefit based on category of employment. For purposes of this provision, categories of employment status are full-time benefit eligible, part-time benefit eligible, and part-time not eligible for benefits.
b. Senior employees can bump the least senior employee in their classification.
c. If an employee is the least senior employee in his/her classification, he/she may bump the least senior employee in the next lower classification. A secretary may bump a less senior employee two or more classifications lower than the secretary currently occupies but shall be paid the secretary’s current rate of pay or the highest rate of pay for that classification, whichever is lower.
d. Prior to any layoffs, the Union and School District will meet to agree on a process and bumping rights so that the least senior employees are placed on layoff.
e. An employee who chooses to bump a less senior employee shall assume the less senior employee’s position as that position exists (i.e.: An employee occupying an 11-month position, that assumes another employee’s 12- month position, shall work 12-months or an employee who works a 12- month position and assumes another employee’s 9-month position, shall then work 9- months.)
