Common use of Layoff Application Clause in Contracts

Layoff Application. Should the City decide, for labor cost-control reasons, to permanently eliminate bargaining unit work by permanently replacing existing bargaining unit positions with contract or subcontract employees to do the same work under similar conditions of employment (“Work Elimination”), the City agrees to notify the Union fourteen (14) days prior to implementation of the work elimination, in order to allow the Union to meet and confer with respect to the effects of the proposed action upon the bargaining unit employees and to propose effective economical methods, if any, by which such work could continue to be provided by the City’s own employees. It is not the intention of the City to contract out work normally performed by bargaining unit employees. If the City proposes to abolish a position, whether filled or vacant, the City will notify the Union and afford the opportunity to meet and confer.