Common use of Reduction Procedure Clause in Contracts

Reduction Procedure. If a position is eliminated, the employee in the eliminated position has the right, by exercising his/her system seniority as defined in the above definition of seniority, to bump the least senior employee within his/her classification series. The least senior employee on the seniority list in a layoff classification who is bumped then has the right to bump into a lower classification series where there is a person with less seniority. The last person on the seniority list, who is bumped, will go on the layoff list. If an affected employee in an eliminated position or one who has been bumped does not in turn choose to bump the least senior employee in his/her classification series, that employee will automatically be placed on the layoff list. Employees will not be permitted to bump into a higher classification series. Bumping into a lower classification series will automatically place the employee on their present step in the new salary classification subdivision.