SENIORTY Sample Clauses

SENIORTY. Section 1. Seniority shall be defined as an employee's accumulated length of continuous service with this Department computed from the last date of hire. An employee's length of service shall not be reduced by: 1. Time lost due to absence for active military service. 2. Absence due to a bona fide illness or injury, certified by a physician, and arising in the line of duty and extending for whatever period the employee shall remain a member of this Department. Section 2. Seniority shall be lost, however, for any of the following reasons: 1. Voluntarily continuing in the active military service beyond the time scheduled for release therefrom. 2. Voluntarily re-enlisting in the active military service. 3. Discharge from employment as a member of the Department. 4. Resignation as a member of the Department. 5. Continued absence from duty for five (5) consecutive working days without leave or notice, and without advising the Department for such absence.

SENIORTY. Unit members shall accrue seniority in position beginning on the date of their appointment. In the event of a reduction in force (RIF) employees shall be Riffed in the inverse order of seniority in position. Laid off employees shall be placed on a recall list and called back to work in the order of seniority in position. Part- time employees earn seniority on a pro-rata basis.

SENIORTY. A. New employees hired in a permanent position other than substitutes and temporary help shall be considered as probationary employees for one hundred and forty (140) calendar days in their job assignment. The dates between the last day of school each spring, and the first day of school the following fall, are expressly excluded as counting for credit toward satisfying one hundred and forty (140) calendar days probationary period. Positions that also entail summer work days will be counted toward the probationary period. A temporary employee is defined as an employee who provides services when help is required and said job assignment or position is not of a permanent nature. A temporary position shall not exceed six (6) months unless extended by mutual agreement by the Employer and the Association President. There shall be no seniority among probationary or temporary employees. When a permanent employee has successfully completed the probationary period, said employee shall be entered on the seniority list and shall rank for seniority based on his/her hire date as a permanent paraeducator. The Association President and/or designee(s) will be notified, via a copy of the off-probation Notice of Adjustment, of the date that employees completed their probationary periods. B. Seniority will be calculated as years of service since employed in a regular Paraeducator position. C. The Association shall represent probationary employees for the purpose of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment and other conditions of employment as set forth in this Agreement, except that the Employer will have the right to discharge and take disciplinary action involving a probationary employee without a grievance being filed or processed. D. Probationary employees shall be eligible for fringe benefits (i.e., sick days, vacation pay, approved leave, inclement weather, dental, vision, life) provided for in the Agreement upon successful completion of ninety (90) calendar days. Employees eligible for health care benefits, shall be eligible for benefits in accordance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which currently is 90 calendar days after they begin employment. Such time period shall be in accordance with the ACA. E. When more than one (1) employee is employed on the same day, seniority will be determined by the last four digits of the social security number (0000 is the highest seniority). F. A seniority employee shall lose seniority and termin...