Primary Recall. Employees shall be recalled to the position from which originally laid off in reverse order of layoff. A laid off employee who fails to respond to a written recall notice within 5 working days of receipt of such recall notice, or, upon acceptance fails to be available for work within 5 working days of the recall notice shall forfeit all recall rights, unless such employee is on duty disability, approved med- ical leave or has good reason acceptable to the Employer for tem- porary delay in responding to the notice or for not reporting to work. If the Employer cannot reasonably delay the employee’s re- call, the Employer may recall the next eligible employee and the employee who had said good reason for not timely reporting shall remain on layoff until the next recall subject to the break in service provisions of this agreement.
Primary Recall. This right is restricted to an occupation in which an employee was working when reduced or displaced. Such recall remains in force until an employee is recalled to the occupation or moves to a higher occupation.
Primary Recall. A. Due to BNSF’s need to maintain a stable workforce at certain locations, BNSF may hire ground service employees, who establish seniority at locations after the effective date of this Agreement who are not otherwise subject to the ATSF MOA dated January 1, 2001 (Flowback Agreement), will be “primary-recall” employees. These “primary-recall” employees shall be obligated to work jobs protected by the location(s) where hired until a junior “primary-recall” employee becomes available.
B. Once an employee who establishes primary recall under the terms of this Agreement is initially released from the location of hire account a junior “primary-recall” employee becoming available, the senior employees released shall have no further obligations pursuant to the provisions of this Section, except that for a period of three (3) years (from date of hire), should there be a subsequent manpower shortage at the employee’s “primary recall” location(s), these “primary-recall” employees will stand for recall (in reverse seniority order) to the location(s) until BNSF releases them, or they are released by a junior “primary-recall” employee becoming available.
C. Individuals hired under the provisions of this Section shall be advised, in writing, prior to being hired, of these conditions. In addition, BNSF shall, to the extent practicable, hire individuals affected by this Section at the “primary-recall” location(s).
D. Order of recall is:
1. furloughed primary recall employee;
2. Junior primary recall employee in active service
3. Once recalled, employees working in active service at other locations have 5 days to report unless additional time is approved. Recalled primary recall employees should update their bid sheet at the location recalled to for proper placement.
