Common use of Assignments and Job Postings Clause in Contracts

Assignments and Job Postings. 9.1 Employees hired before the ratification of this Agreement shall work the hours and in the classifications they worked when the Agreement is ratified. Employees hired after the date of this Agreement shall work the hours and in the classifications for which they were hired. Changes in employees’ hours and/or classifications shall occur in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including Articles 8, Seniority, 9, Assignments and Job Postings and 10, Hours and Overtime. This language shall not prevent RNAs and CMAs being assigned to CNA work on a temporary basis. 9.2 When a vacancy in a bargaining unit job occurs, the following principles shall apply in the following order: 1. All vacancies and new positions in the bargaining unit shall be posted for a period of seven (7) calendar days. Postings shall include job classification, shift, and rate of pay. 2. Before considering applications from employees outside the bargaining unit, the Employer shall consider applications from bargaining unit employees. 3. The Employer will offer the vacancy to the bargaining unit applicant with the most seniority, provided that applicant is qualified for the position. If that employee decides not to accept the position, then the vacancy will be offered to the next most senior applicant, and so forth, until the pool of bargaining unit applicants is exhausted or the vacancy is filled. 4. If an applicant already works in the job classification in which the vacancy exists, he or she will be deemed qualified for the vacant position. If an applicant works in a different job classification, he or she must possess the ability to perform the functions of the new position with no more than the basic orientation provided to newly-hired employees in the new job category. Employees transferring from one classification to another will undergo a thirty (30) day probationary period. If they do not pass this probation, they will return to the position they held prior to the transfer. 9.3 Employees will not be involuntarily transferred from one shift to another shift, except where necessary in situations involving layoff or department reorganization. In such situations, where transfer to another shift is required, the Employer will transfer the least senior employee, provided that such transfer is consistent with resident needs. In addition, this Section shall not preclude the Employer from offering work on another shift to employees who have been low censused on a different shift. No employee shall be involuntarily transferred to another shift with less than fourteen (14) days’ notice. If, within seven (7) days after the notice, the employee represents in writing to the Employer that the employee will not be able to meet their child or family care arrangements with the directed change, then the employee will have a total of thirty (30) days from the date the move was given by the Employer to the employee to make that move.