Common use of Seniority and Displacement, Layoff, and Recall Clause in Contracts

Seniority and Displacement, Layoff, and Recall. (i) The Employer will apply the principle of seniority rights within the Displacement, Layoff and Recall procedures. That is; where the procedures provide an option to affected Employees, the option shall be offered first to the most senior affected Employee. Where the procedure does not permit an option, the Employee to be displaced or laid-off shall be the least senior affected Employee. (ii) Both parties recognize the principle that job security shall normally increase in proportion to length of service. Therefore, in the event of a displacement in a classification, the Employee to be displaced shall be the least senior in that classification, if operationally possible, in the affected site. (iii) Further, both parties recognize that in the event of a layoff in a classification or classification group, the Employee to be laid-off shall be the least senior in that classification or classification group, in the Bargaining Unit.