Operation of Pool Jobs. Employees assigned to a pool job may exercise their plant continuous service to bid on any openings that may occur in their assigned department. If they are recalled to their old department prior to successfully bidding into a permanent job in their currently assigned department, they must accept the recall to their old department just as though they were recalled from layoff. If recall occurs after they have successfully bid into a permanent job they may either accept or reject recall to their old department; however, if they reject recall they forfeit all seniority rights in their old department. An Employee who is temporarily recalled to his old department may exercise his bumping right, again, if laid off from his old department at the end of the temporary recall and if he has sufficient length of continuous plant service to claim a pool job. The temporary vacancy created by his absence from his pool assignment may be filled by recalling an Employee on layoff from that department, or if there are no Employees on layoff from that department, then by recalling the senior laid off Employee from the Plant. If the Employee’s recall to his old department is to a permanent vacancy, then he can only exercise his seniority rights, again, if he is again later permanently laid off from his department. The vacancy created by his absence from his pool assignment will be filled by applying the procedures of this Article as long as the vacancy fits the definition of a pool job above. The Company shall have the right to designate the specific job in the pool to which an Employee shall be assigned and to change such assignments when necessary. An Employee may not refuse assignment to a pool job.
