Vertical Bumping Sample Clauses

Vertical Bumping. A. When the abolition of a position causes the layoff of a permanent competitive class employee, such employee may then bump (displace) an employee having less retention standing in a lower level occupied title in the direct line of promotion in the same layoff unit. An employee shall not be required to have held service in the title to which bump is sought. For purposes of this section, a position is considered occupied if it is filled by a temporary, provisional, contingent permanent, probationary or permanent employee, or it is an encumbered vacant position being held for another permanent employee in accordance with Rule 16. B. Opportunity to bump begins with the next lower occupied title in the direct line of promotion. In the event that the employee cannot bump an employee in the next lower level occupied title in the direct line of promotion due to insufficient retention standing, the opportunity for bumping proceeds down to successively lower level occupied titles within the direct line of promotion until an employee with less retention standing is identified. In the event that there is more than one employee with less retention standing in the lower occupied title, the one with the least retention standing shall be displaced. In no case may any employee bump another employee with greater retention standing, and it shall always be the employee with the least retention standing in a title who is bumped. C. When the layoff involves more than one position in a title, the laid off employee with the greatest retention standing is the first to bump and displaces the employee with the least retention standing with the direct line of promotion in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 4A and B of this Rule. D. An employee who refuses to bump waives all further rights to bump or retreat. E. The layoff of a temporary, provisional, contingent permanent or probationary employee by virtue of position abolition or displacement does not constitute a basis to bump pursuant to Section 80 of the State Civil Service Law of these Rules.

Vertical Bumping. Vertical bumping occurs when an employee in a specific title to which there is a direct line of promotion, who is himself laid off or displaced, displaces an employee in the next lower occupied title in direct line of promotion in the same layoff unit having the least seniority if the employee who seeks to displace has greater retention standing. it is not necessary for an employee to have had previous service in the title into which that employee is displacing.