Resident Hall Dining. Individual employee assignments to the separate Residence Hall Dining units, work shifts, and days off will be decided the first full week in December of each year for the following calendar year in accordance with the bids of employees in the order of their seniority in each classification. Employees on leave of absence or Worker’s Compensation leave at the time of bidding will be ineligible to bid at the annual unit assignment and schedule bidding. However, employees returning from leave after the completion of bidding shall be allowed to bid in accordance with Article XVI, Section 16.8 of this Agreement. In the bidding process, an employee’s bid is irrevocable as soon as the next person in that classification has announced his bid. If a vacancy occurs after bidding is completed, seniority campus-wide will be followed through the bid process in the filling of that vacancy. Subsequent vacancies created by the filling of the first vacancy will be filled by bid according to the relative seniority of the employees within only the affected unit. The schedule based on the bids will be available prior to the beginning of January and shall remain in effect until the following January unless a change in workforce requirements necessitates re-bidding. The available positions will be posted in November prior to the bid in December.
