Layoff for purposes of. this Agreement shall be defined as: The interruption of employment and suspension of pay of any regular, trial service, or probationary employee because of lack of work, lack of funds or through reorganization. Reorganization when used as a criterion for layoff under this Agreement shall be based upon specific policy decision(s) by legislative authority to eliminate, restrict or reduce functions or funds of a particular department. A. In a given class in a department, the following shall be the order of layoff: 1. Interim appointees; 2. Temporary or intermittent employees not earning service credit; 3. Probationary employees *; 4. Trial service employees * (who cannot be reverted in accordance with Section 8.4B); or 5. Regular employees * in order of their length of service, the one with the least service being laid off first. B. However, the City may lay off out of the order described above for one or more of the reasons cited below: 1. Upon showing by the appointing authority that the operating needs of the department require a special experience, training, or skill. 2. When (1) women or minorities are substantially underrepresented in an EEO category within a department; or (2) a planned layoff would produce substantial underrepresentation of women or minorities; and (3) such layoff in normal order would have a negative, disparate impact on women or minorities; then the Seattle Human Resources Director shall make the minimal adjustment necessary in the order of layoff in order to prevent the negative disparate impact. C. At the time of layoff, a regular employee or a trial service employee (per 20.5A(4) above) shall be given an opportunity to accept reduction (bump) to the next lower class in a series of classes in their department or they may be transferred as provided in Section 20.1C4. An employee so reduced shall be entitled to credit for any previous regular service in the lower class and to other service credit in accordance with Section 20.6.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
