Common use of OPERATIONAL TRANSFER Clause in Contracts

OPERATIONAL TRANSFER. It is recognized that to meet the necessities of the business or to advance the Employer's equal employment opportunity program, transfer of employees, either within the geographical jurisdiction of a Union party to this Agreement or from the jurisdiction of one such Local Union to another such Local Union may be required. In such cases where such transfer is effected by the Employer, the transferred employee will carry to such employee's new assignment all seniority, as defined above, acquired in the employ of the Employer. This transfer rule shall not require an employee to travel one-way more than twenty-five (25) miles between the employee's residence and the new location. 3.5.1 An employee may refuse an operational transfer only if it is over twenty-five (25) miles from his place of residence; provided, however, that the employee is protected inasmuch as the operational transfer provisions shall not be applied in an arbitrary, capricious, or discriminatory manner, or for disciplinary purposes, and shall not be utilized as a device for creating hardship to the employee in order to force or provoke resignation.

OPERATIONAL TRANSFER. It is recognized that to meet the necessities of the business or to advance the Employer's equal employment opportunity program, transfer of employees, either within the geographical jurisdiction of a Union party to this Agreement or from the jurisdiction of one such Local Union to another such Local Union may be required. In such cases where such transfer is effected by the Employer, the transferred employee will carry to such employee's new assignment all seniority, as defined above, acquired in the employ of the Employer. This transfer rule shall not require an employee to travel one-way more than twenty-twenty- five (25) miles between the employee's residence and the new location. 3.5.1 An employee may refuse an operational transfer only if it is over twenty-twenty- five (25) miles from his place of residence; provided, however, that the employee is protected inasmuch as the operational transfer provisions shall not be applied in an arbitrary, capricious, or discriminatory manner, or for disciplinary purposes, and shall not be utilized as a device for creating hardship to the employee in order to force or provoke resignation.