Common use of Retrenchment Procedure Clause in Contracts

Retrenchment Procedure. A. The President of the College shall make reasonable efforts to effect the required retrenchment by exhausting attrition and reassignment. B. Once a determination has been made to retrench unit members within a particular division, department, work area or professional service area the order of retrenchment shall be: 1. Part–time employees in the affected work area; 2. Temporary employees in the affected work area; 3. Unit members in the affected work area according to reverse seniority. C. In selecting among and between full–time unit members, the seniority of each unit member within any department/work area/program, whichever is appropriate, at a College shall determine the order in which the unit member shall be retrenched from that department/work area/program area, whichever is appropriate, so that the most senior such member shall be last retrenched and the least senior such member shall be first retrenched; provided, however, that such order of retrenchment shall govern only insofar as, pursuant to its initial application, those unit members to be retained are by training, academic credentials, and/or experience as determined by the President of the College or the President’s designee qualified to teach the remaining courses offered by such department or within such program area; provided further that if a unit member is qualified to teach in more than one work area according to the criterion of having taught eight (8) sections in that work area, then college–wide seniority in the professional staff work unit and the faculty work unit shall prevail in the event of retrenchment. D. A unit member who is aggrieved by the order of retrenchment shall upon request be notified of the reasons for such retrenchment as it relates to that unit member’s employment being discontinued.

Retrenchment Procedure. A. The President of the College shall make reasonable efforts to effect the required retrenchment by exhausting attrition and reassignment. B. Once a determination has been made to retrench unit members within a particular division, department, work area or professional service area the order of retrenchment shall be: 1. Part–time employees in the affected work area; 2. Temporary employees in the affected work area; 3. Unit members in the affected work area according to reverse seniority. C. In selecting among and between full–time unit members, the seniority of each unit member within any department/work area/program, whichever is appropriate, at a College shall determine the order in which the unit member shall be retrenched from that department/work area/program area, whichever is appropriate, so that the most senior such member shall be last retrenched and the least senior such member shall be first retrenched; provided, however, that such order of retrenchment shall govern only insofar as, pursuant to its initial application, those unit members to be retained are by training, academic credentials, and/or experience as determined by the President of the College or the President’s designee qualified to teach the remaining courses offered by such department or within such program area; provided further that if a unit member is qualified to teach in more than one work area according to the criterion of having taught eight (8) sections in that work area, then college–wide seniority in the professional staff work unit and the faculty work unit shall prevail in the event of retrenchment.retrenchment.‌‌ D. A unit member who is aggrieved by the order of retrenchment shall upon request be notified of the reasons for such retrenchment as it relates to that unit member’s employment being discontinued.