REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE Sample Clauses

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. When the Employer deems it necessary to reduce the work force, the Employer shall inform the Union. When such a reduction of workforce is required, the Employer may attempt to adjust staffing levels by canvassing employee interest in filling vacant positions, retirement or voluntary layoff. If further reductions are necessary, such work force reductions shall be made in reverse order of seniority provided that employees remaining are qualified and able to do the available work as per clause 16.06.

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. LAYOFF, RECALL

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. In the event of a reduction of the workforce, the employee with the least seniority shall be released first, ability considered. No regular employee shall be laid off from the Company until all probationary and student employees have been laid off.

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. 12.01 Whenever the Employer decreases the work force employees will be laid off on the basis of the reverse order of seniority in the classification of work affected. 12.02 An employee to be laid off may claim the position of another employee in another classification provided that he/she is more senior to that employee and the employee exercising his or her seniority is capable of performing the work of the employee less senior. 12.03 A laid off employee shall be placed on a rehiring list for their classification for a period of thirty-five (35) weeks. When hiring for positions covered by this agreement, the Employer shall hire in reverse order of seniority any employee on the rehiring list in their classification subject to that employee being capable of performing the work of the position in question. 12.04 The Employer shall provide fourteen (14) calendar days notice of any lay-off to the Union and the employee(s) affected.

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. In the event of a reduction of the workforce within a department, the employee with the least seniority shall be released from the department first, ability considered.

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. (a) In the event of a reduction of the workforce within a department, the employee with the least seniority shall be released from the department first, ability considered. (b) Any employee released from a department due to a reduction in the workforce may, provided an individual has sufficient capability to fulfill the requirements of the job satisfactorily, such as the necessary physical fitness and the minimum qualifications, exercise seniority to enter other departments at the lowest position where the individual with the least seniority will, in turn, exercise their seniority in the same manner as above or be laid off. The opportunity to bump other employees is subject to the express limitations of 13.4(c). (c) It is understood that those 85% of employees with the most seniority in a department are not under any circumstance or combination of circumstances subject to the plant wide bumping provisions of 13.4(b). This Article does not prevent a department or departments from shutting down and releasing all its employees in accordance with Article 13.4(b). (d) No regular employee shall be laid off from the Company until probationary, temporary, casual, and student employees have been laid off.

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. When it becomes necessary to lay off employees for any reason, the force shall be reduced in reverse seniority order as per Rule unless provided in craft special rules. When it becomes necessary to a reduction in staff at any seniority terminal, at least four (4) working days’ notice shall be given to the affected before a reduction is made, and lists shall be furnished to the local committee and President without undue delay. This does not apply in laying off employees who have been temporarily employed for a duration of less than forty-five (45) working days to meet special requirements. the event that a strike or work stoppage by employees in the Railway industry is called on less than four (4) days’ notice, a shorter notice may be given under this Rule. In reducing forces, the ratio of apprentices shall be maintained. When lay-offs occur, an employee laid-off from his respective classification at his seniority terminal, may, within thirty (30) calendar days, displace the junior employee in his respective classification at the nearest seniority terminal he can hold carrying his seniority in that classification with him. or he may displace the junior employee in his classification on the system carrying his seniority in that classification with him, as may be provided in the respective craft’s special rules. An employee who declines to displace the junior employee in respective classification on the system under this shall be laid-off subject recall to his home seniority An employee who transfers in accordance with Rule shall hold seniority rights at only two seniority on the system, that is, at home seniority terminal and at the seniority terminal to which he last transferred. except as provided in Rule A laid-off employee who displaces another employee on the system, shall retain his seniority rights at his home seniority terminal in accordance with Rule and shall be subject to recall to his home seniority terminal in seniority order for vacancies of expected duration of ninety (YO) calendar days or more. An employee who declines to accept such recall within seven (7) calendar days shall forfeit his seniority rights at his seniority terminal and shall his seniority rights at new seniority terminal. An employee who accepts recalls to his home seniority terminal within seven (7) calendar days will return thereto within

REDUCTION OF THE WORKFORCE. In the event of a reduction of the workforce within a department, the employee with the least seniority shall be released from the department first, ability considered. An employee released from a department due to a reduction in the workforce may, provided the individual has sufficient capability to fulfill the requirements of the job satisfactorily, such as the necessary physical fitness and the minimum qualifications, exercise seniority to enter other departments at the lowest position where the individual with the least seniority will, in turn, exercise their seniority in the same manner as above or be laid off. The opportunity to bump other employees is subject to the express limitations of It is understood that those of employees with the most seniority in a department are not under any circumstance or combination of circumstances subject to the plant wide bumping provisions of This Article does not prevent a department or departments from shutting down and releasing all its employees in accordance with Article No regular employee shall be laid off from the Company until probationary, temporary, casual, and student employees have been laid off. Any employee who is transferred in accordance with Article shall have their wage rate protected as follows: