Reduction of the Working Force Sample Clauses

Reduction of the Working Force. A. Permanent When a crew in a department is permanently reduced or a department is permanently eliminated, employees thus affected will exercise their seniority in the following way: 1. Employees in established Lines of Progression will use their departmental seniority to place themselves, on a shift of their preference, in descending order within their Line of Progression. If their seniority does not permit them to remain in the progression, employees will exercise department seniority on jobs outside the progression. a) Employees curtailed within their department may bump into a Line of Progression within their department provided said employee has held the job he/she wants to bump to. The Company will provide a reasonable familiarization period, not to exceed one week. 2. Employees on non-progression jobs may use their current departmental seniority to displace junior employees on starting jobs in Lines of Progression or on other non-progression jobs in the department. In the event the least senior (department seniority) employee occupies a progression position above the starting job: (a) The least senior employee will be curtailed from the progression and department where; (b) Remaining employees assigned to the progression are qualified and can be moved up to permit placement of the bumping employee in the starting job. 3. Any employee curtailed from their regular department will be able to exercise previously acquired department seniority in former departments and may bump the least senior in the department. In addition, any employee(s) who exercises a bump in accordance with (A)(3) above, will be eligible to receive the “red-circled” rate of pay until such time as (1) the employee voluntarily bids to another position outside the department or, (2) they refuse to move to a position (permanent or temporary) within a department that their seniority would entitle them to or, (3) they move to the position their seniority and experience entitles them to. In the event that one of the above three things occur, the employee will assume the rate of the position that they are assigned to. (It is possible that an employee could move multiple times within the department or Line of Progression before an employee moves to the “highest” position that their seniority would have entitled them to.) (For example, an employee’s experience and seniority would place them in a Fourth Hand’s position on #12 Paper Machine if they had not bid to another position. The employee...

Reduction of the Working Force. In the event of the abolition of an occupation by the Employer, the employee having the least seniority in this occupation shall displace the employee having the least seniority in the classification of their choice, on the shift of their own choice, inasmuch as, in the reasonable judgment of the Employer, the employee has the necessary qualifications to perform the job.