Temporary Work While on Layoff Clause Samples
The "Temporary Work While on Layoff" clause defines the conditions under which employees who have been laid off may accept temporary employment elsewhere without jeopardizing their recall rights or employment status with their original employer. Typically, this clause outlines that laid-off employees can seek and accept short-term work with other employers during the layoff period, provided they remain available for recall and notify their original employer as required. This provision ensures that employees can maintain income during periods of layoff while protecting their right to return to their previous job, thereby offering financial stability to workers and operational flexibility to employers.
Temporary Work While on Layoff. The Medical Center shall maintain a list of all nurses on layoff according to seniority. The most senior qualified nurse on this layoff list shall be offered first opportunity to perform available temporary work, if the nurse requests such opportunity, until such time as the nurse withdraws such request. Such preferential opportunity will be offered in accordance with the procedures of the following subparagraphs:
A. Offers of such work will be made by telephone.
B. If the offer of available work is for work in their former job, shift and unit, and the nurse declines the offer, the nurse will be treated as having withdrawn the request for such preferential opportunity until the following week. For purposes of this paragraph, a week is from 0001 on Sunday through 2359 on Saturday.
C. The nurse may decline the offer of available work if it is different from their former job, shift and unit, and retain the same position on the layoff list. Alternatively, the nurse may accept the offered work if it is different from their former job, shift and unit, and shall still be considered to be on layoff for purposes of future recall rights under the next paragraph
D. If the Medical Center cannot reach the nurse by telephone or the nurse declines the offer, the Medical Center may offer such work to the remaining qualified nurses on the layoff list, in accordance with this paragraph, in order of seniority.
E. When the Medical Center cannot reach a nurse by telephone to offer such work,
(1) the nurse’s preferential opportunity under this paragraph will continue with respect to temporary work which becomes available in the subsequent days of the week, if such work has not previously been offered to and accepted by another nurse, and (2) no more than a week of a particular job, shift and unit will be offered to other nurses until the Medical Center has tried on a subsequent day to reach the nurse to offer the following week(s) of such work.
F. After the above procedures, as applicable, have been followed, nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the Medical Center from offering temporary work to any nurse.
Temporary Work While on Layoff. A nurse on layoff may accept a temporary position at the Hospital. At the conclusion of the temporary assignment the nurse will be returned to layoff status. During the temporary assignment, the nurse retains recall rights.
Temporary Work While on Layoff. The Medical Center shall maintain a list of 8 all nurses on layoff according to seniority. The most senior qualified nurse on this layoff 9 list shall be offered first opportunity to perform available temporary work, if the nurse 10 requests such opportunity, until such time as the nurse withdraws such request. Such 11 preferential opportunity will be offered in accordance with the procedures of the 12 following subparagraphs:
13 A. Offers of such work will be made by telephone.