Security of Employment. a. When for educational, budgetary or other valid reasons the Board determines that it is necessary to reduce the total number of teachers employed on a continuing appointment by the Board, the teachers to be retained on the teaching staff of the district shall be those who have the greatest seniority, provided that they possess the necessary qualifications for the assignments available. b. Nothing in Article C.20.2.a shall be taken to require the Board to transfer a teacher for the purpose of retaining on staff a teacher with less seniority than that teacher. c. The Board shall give each teacher it intends to lay off pursuant to this article a minimum of thirty (30) calendar days' notice in writing, such notice to be effective at the end of the school term, or, where applicable, school semester, and to contain a reason for the layoff. Information on assignments held by less senior teachers shall be available to teachers in receipt of layoff notices, and to the Association, through the Office of the Superintendent of Schools.
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Samples: Provincial and Local Matters Agreement, Provincial and Local Matters Agreement, Provincial and Local Matters Agreement
