Preference to Employees. The College reserves its right to determine whether a position that has been vacated (whether through termination, retirement, extended leave, layoff, or otherwise) shall be filled. If the College decides, in its sole discretion, to fill such position, either on a temporary or permanent basis, the College shall post such position within thirty days of such decision. Qualified employees who have completed their probationary period will be given preference by the College over applicants for employment when jobs within the bargaining unit are available. Neither a probationary employee nor an employee on medical leave who is unable to resume active employment within twenty-one (21) days of being awarded the job will be given such preference and neither may apply for any other job under Section 19.2. The College will give preference over external candidates to a qualified employee who has not been working in his/her current job for a continuous period of at least six (6) months in the following circumstances: (a) when the employee is applying for a position which has a higher straight-time hourly rate than his/her current position; (b) when the employee is applying to transfer from an academic year position to a full-year position; (c) when the employee is applying for a job in another department; (d) when the employee is applying to transfer from a temporary position to a regular position; or (e) when the employee has not worked for six continuous months in his/her current job because he/she has served in a temporary position and may apply under Section 19.2 only for such a job. An employee so selected for a job shall be on a trial basis for the first one hundred and twenty (120) days in his/her new job if it is in a different department; ninety (90) days if his/her new job is in the same department; or thirty (30) days if his/her new job is in the same job classification. If during such trial period the employee is not satisfactory to the College, he/she will be returned to his/her former job or to his/her former job classification, as the case may be, displacing any employee who may have replaced him/her on the job, unless the College decides not to fill his/her former job. If an employee who has thus been transferred to a job in another job classification elects during the first fifteen (15) days in his/her new job to return to his/her former job, he/she will be returned to his/her former job, displacing any employee who may have replaced him/her in such jo...
Preference to Employees. When promotional opportunities within the bargaining unit are available all qualified employees, who have completed their probationary period, must successfully complete the promotional screening process designed by the College. An employee so selected for such promotion shall be on a trial basis for the first ninety (90) days in his new job. If during such trial period the employee is not satisfactory to the College, he will be returned to his former job classification displacing any employee who may have replaced him on the job, unless the College decides not to fill his former job. If during the first thirty (30) days of such trial period the employee elects to return to his former job classification, he will be returned to his former job classification, displacing any employee who may have replaced him in such job classification, unless the College decides not to fill his former job. If a suitable vacancy does not exist (to be determined jointly by the College and the Association), the employee will be laid off. The College will make an evaluation after sixty (60) days of such trial period.
