Placement Procedure. A. Placement of an employee into a vacancy in the same classification or in a different classification in the same salary grade shall take precedence over bumping an incumbent in the same salary grade provided the employee is immediately qualified to perform the required work. If there is no such vacancy in the same salary grade, the employee shall be placed into a lower salary grade vacancy within 2 salary grade steps of the employee’s current salary grade in which he/she is immediately qualified to perform the required work only under the following circumstances. Otherwise, the employee may exercise whatever displacement rights he/she may have. 1. The incumbent in the same salary grade who the laid off employee would be entitled to bump is not immediately qualified to perform the work in any same or lower salary grade bargaining unit vacancy with available funding to accommodate the incumbent’s salary or the incumbent is ineligible to bump and would be laid off. 2. The laid off employee’s salary is not above the available funding of the lower salary grade vacancy; or 3. The laid off employee voluntarily agrees to accept the position in the lower salary grade, regardless of the above conditions. An employee who is placed into a lower salary grade vacancy will retain his/her recall rights outlined in Section 4 5 below. B. Employees placed into another SEIU bargaining unit position shall be required to serve a 60 day trial period. If during the trial period it is determined that an employee is not satisfactorily performing the work, this trial period shall be extended for as long as 30 additional days. The determination of whether or not the employee is performing the work in a satisfactory manner shall be determined by using benchmarks and objective criteria outlined upon placement that are based on the position description. Satisfactory performance will be at the discretion of the University but shall not be interpreted in an arbitrary or capricious manner. In the event the employee is not able to complete the trial period due to performance, the employee will maintain recall rights for eighteen (18) months from the original date of lay off. C. An employee scheduled to be laid off from his/her present job in a funds available position with less than three (3) years of seniority is only entitled to placement into another funds available position. Employees with three (3) or more years seniority may be placed into either hard funded or funds available positions under other terms of this article.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
