Staff Reduction. 14.01 In the event of a layoff, the Employer shall give the employee(s) affected the required notice under the Employment Standards Act and will give as much additional notice to the Union that is reasonably possible in all of the circumstances.
14.02 Part-time and probationary employees shall be laid off first provided there are sufficient qualified employees with seniority who are able to do the required work. In the event there is a requirement for further reductions in staff, employees shall be laid off in inverse order of company seniority, provided the remaining employees are qualified and able to perform the required work. An employee whose position is abolished or who is displaced shall be entitled to exercise his/her company seniority rights and displace the most junior employee in the bargaining unit, provided he/she is either qualified to do the required work or can be qualified with minimal training.
14.03 When an employee is laid off, the employee will immediately register his/her name with the Employer in order that he/she may be notified of any work available. Laid off employees will, if qualified and able to perform the required work, be returned to work in order of company seniority when staff covered by this Agreement is increased, or vacancies occur.
(a) An Employee who is unemployed at the time of a recall must report for duty within forty-eight (48) hours of being contracted unless the employee can provide a valid and satisfactory reason to the Employer for not doing so.
(b) An employee who is employed at the time of recall must report for duty or give a satisfactory reason to the Employer for not doing so within eight (8) days from the date of mailing the notification to report by registered mail to the employee’s last known address.
(c) It shall be the employee’s responsibility to keep the Employer notified of his/her current telephone number as well as his address so that they will be up to date at all times.
(d) In the event an employee does not report or provide a satisfactory reason for failing to do so under (a) or (b) above, the employee shall forfeit his/her seniority rights under this Agreement and his/her employment shall be deemed to be terminated.
Staff Reduction. This article VIII shall not apply to Title I tutors. However, the standards of this section will be applied to the tutors within the staff of tutors. Whenever, in the judgment of the Board, staff reduction should become necessary, the Board shall lay off or reassign teachers in order to achieve the necessary staff reduction, in accordance with the following.
1. The Board will use reasonable efforts to communicate the situation confronting the district to the teachers and the Association President so as to allow the teachers and the Association a reasonable opportunity, not to exceed 10 days from the date of communication, to present possible alternatives such as early retirement, normal attrition, part- time contract, contract for substitute teaching, and/or other alternatives which could accomplish the same goals. Teachers in their early retirement window that are subject to RIF after February 1 will be allowed to exercise their early retirement option within the 10 days from the date of the communication.
2. While reviewing the staff reduction at the secondary level, the Board shall give consideration to do so by and within departments. If positions are available, teachers may transfer to another department providing that they are certified and they have taught in that subject matter within five (5) years preceding the layoff date.
3. No teacher protected by statutory continuing contract provisions will be non-reemployed while qualified and certificated for a position held by a person temporarily or not fully certificated by the State Board of Education or a person who has attained continuing contract status.
a. Staff with emergency and/or temporary certification will be released first.
b. Non-degree staff in professional positions shall be released second.
c. Professionally certified staff shall be released third.
d. The board hereby establishes the following criteria (not necessarily in order of priority), all of which the administration shall consider in making recommendations to the Board and the Board shall consider in determining which staff in the above categories will be affected by staff reduction: seniority, evaluation records, qualifications as established for the positions remaining, certification, educational background (i.e., training and experience), federal and state affirmative action requirements.
4. Any teacher laid off or reassigned pursuant to this Article shall have recall rights to any position for which he or she is certified at t...
Staff Reduction. In the event the District adopts a reduced educational program by reason of financial necessity, including but not limited to, levy failure and/or decreased State or Federal support, certificated employees who will be retained to implement the District’s reduced or modified program and those certificated employees who will be non-renewed from employment or adversely affected in contract status shall be identified by the provisions contained in this Article. If the District is only reducing provisional employees, the following procedures do not need to be implemented.
Staff Reduction. When it is necessary to invoke staff reduction, it shall be accomplished, whenever possible, by natural attrition.
Staff Reduction. It is hereby specifically recognized that it is within the sole discretion of the Board to reduce its educational program; curriculum and/or staff and that the procedures set forth in this article shall be used in laying off personnel.
Staff Reduction. When it is necessary to reduce the number of teachers in the program or the number of hours assigned to a teacher, such reduction shall be done in reverse order of seniority for teachers who have completed their probationary period. Non-probationary teachers who have been so affected because of lack of pupils and discontinuance of position shall retain rights to be recalled for one year.
Staff Reduction. Staff reduction occurs when the Board eliminates all or part of an existing position. In the event the Board determines that a staff reduction is necessary, the following guidelines will be considered.
1. An effort will be made to effect the staff reduction through normal attrition.
2. Positions held by persons with less than full certification for their current teaching assignments will be open to properly certified teachers who have been notified that their positions have been eliminated due to staff reduction.
3. If a position of a teacher is eliminated due to staff reduction, the Board will determine which teacher or teachers are to be released, considering the following criteria and not necessarily in order of preference;
a. Recommendations of administrative staff.
Staff Reduction. Staff reductions shall not be invoked to release teachers liable to dismissal for cause.
Staff Reduction. Where the Board decides to reduce staff, it shall do so in accordance with the following:
Staff Reduction. The Board first shall determine the positions, including certification/licensure area, grade level where applicable, and building location to be affected and provide this list in writing to the ETA President. The administration shall meet with ETA representatives to review individuals who would be affected, staffing needs, potential attrition, and updated seniority lists.
