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For more information visit our privacy policy.SENIORITY 22.01 Seniority shall be defined as the length of continuous service with the Employer within the bargaining unit. 22.02 Seniority shall continue to accumulate during all paid and unpaid authorized leaves of absence, during all layoffs, and during all periods of sickness and/or injury. 22.03 An employee shall cease to have seniority rights and their employment status with the Employer shall be terminated for all purposes if the employee: (a) is duly discharged by the Employer and is not reinstated through the grievance and arbitration procedure contained in the Agreement; (b) voluntarily quits or resigns; (c) has been laid off continuously for the lesser of fifty-two (52) weeks or a period of time equal to the employee’s length of continuous service with the Employer since their most recent date of hire, or is called back to work after a layoff and does not return to work within fourteen (14) calendar days of receiving a registered letter sent to their last known address; (d) is absent from work without a written leave of absence unless a satisfactory reason such as physical incapacity exists. In these circumstances the employee shall make every effort to communicate with the Employer as soon as possible; (e) fails to return to work on the completion of an authorized leave of absence unless a satisfactory reason such as physical incapacity exists. In these circumstances the employee shall make every effort to communicate with the Employer as soon as possible. 22.04 Bargaining unit wide seniority shall be the governing factor in all matters of promotion, awarding of a new full-time position or vacancy, relieving another employee in a higher paying classification, and recall after layoff, providing the more senior employee has the ability to perform the normal functions of the job. Reverse order of bargaining unit wide seniority shall be the governing factor in all matters of demotion, layoff, and reduction to part-time, providing the more senior employee has the ability to perform the normal functions of the job. 22.05 Employees from within the bargaining unit who accept a position with the Employer which places them outside of the bargaining unit shall continue to accumulate seniority for a period of three (3) calendar months. Said employees shall be entitled to return to the bargaining unit and their former job at any time during the three (3) month period if they so choose. Employees who remain outside of the bargaining unit beyond the three (3) month time limit shall keep the seniority they had immediately prior to leaving the bargaining unit in the event they eventually return to the bargaining unit but shall not in such cases accumulate any seniority for the time period that they were outside of the bargaining unit beyond the three (3) month limitation. 22.06 Seniority for full-time employees shall apply amongst full-time employees and it is agreed that all full-time employees shall have seniority over all part- time employees. Part-time employees shall have seniority only over other part-time employees. Part-time employees who become full-time shall begin accumulating their full-time seniority at that time. 22.07 Full-time employees with one (1) or more years of full-time seniority who are reduced to part-time by the Employer shall be placed at the top of the part-time seniority list. Full-time employees with less than one (1) year of full-time seniority who are reduced to part-time shall use the length of their continuous service with the Employer within the bargaining unit when determining where they are to be placed on the part-time seniority list. 22.08 The Employer shall give two (2) weeks' notice in writing or two (2) weeks' pay in lieu thereof, to any employee whose status is to be changed by the Employer from full-time to part-time. 22.09 Daily available part-time hours of work within the employee’s department, or departments for those employees who are normally so employed, shall be scheduled to the most senior part-time employee first and thereafter in decreasing order of seniority, providing the employee has the ability to perform the normal functions of the job and providing the employee is available and willing to work the hours. If the Employer finds there are no available part-time employees available to work, shifts will then be assigned to employees in reverse seniority (i.e. the least senior employee first) on a rotating basis. No part-time employee shall be scheduled to work more than five (5) days per calendar week unless they voluntarily agree otherwise. 22.10 Part-time hours of work that become available on a temporary basis in a particular department and that cannot be worked by part-time employees already working in the department, shall be offered to other part-time employees working outside of the department on the basis of seniority with the most senior such part-time employee first and thereafter in decreasing order of seniority being offered an opportunity to work these hours. Any such employee must have the ability to be able to perform the normal functions of the job and must be available and willing to work the hours. 22.11 The word “department” referred to in sub-articles 22.09 and 22.10 above, shall include: (a) Bakery (b) Meat (c) Deli (d) Produce (e) Grocery The “grocery department” shall include all areas of the Employer’s operations that are not part of the other four (4) departments. 22.12 The Employer shall provide the Union in January and July of each calendar year with an up-to-date seniority list of all full-time and all part-time employees covered under the terms of the Collective Agreement. Copies of the seniority list shall also be given to the Shop Stewards and a copy shall be posted on the bulletin board located on the Employer's premises.
Seniority Roster The District shall maintain an updated seniority roster, indicating employee's class seniority and hire date seniority. Such rosters shall be available to CSEA.
Classification Seniority Classification Seniority" is defined as the length of service in a specific job classification within the bargaining unit, beginning with the date an employee starts to serve a probationary appointment. Classification Seniority shall be interrupted only by separation because of resignation, discharge for just cause, failure to return upon expiration of a leave of absence, failure to respond to a recall from layoff, or retirement.
Seniority List The Employer shall maintain a seniority list showing the date upon which each employee's service commenced. An up-to-date seniority list shall be sent to the Union and posted on all bulletin boards in January of each year.