Seniority Definition. For the purposes of administering the seniority provisions contained in this Agreement including layoff and recall, job openings and eligibility for benefits, seniority shall be by individual bargaining units. The bargaining units are those described in Section 1.0 of this Agreement. Seniority shall be defined as the length of the employee's continuous service within the bargaining unit wherein the employee is employed commencing from the employee's last date of hire, provided that seniority for fringe benefit purposes shall be based upon the last day of hire with the County; seniority for pay purposes shall be by classification on a County-wide basis. The parties to this Agreement have initialed a seniority roster of all bargaining unit members. It is the intention of the parties that the amount of seniority that each bargaining unit member has prior to the date of this Agreement be continued and added to for service during the life of this Agreement.
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