Common use of Assignments to Avoid Layoff Clause in Contracts

Assignments to Avoid Layoff. In the even the Employer does not offer to a bargaining unit instructor a minimum normal load as defined in Section 49, the instructor shall be offered the options of: (a) being laid off without pay in accordance with the layoff/recall provisions of this Agreement; or (b) displacing part-time instructors. The foregoing shall apply only to such classes taught by part-time instructors as are already being offered; the Employer shall not be required by virtue of this provision to institute any additional such classes. The Employer shall determine which such classes are to be so offered to the bargaining unit employee. The Employer may decline to offer such classes to the unit employee sufficient to make up a normal full-time load only if classes the unit employee is qualified to teach are not available. The Employer shall not be obligated per the foregoing to offer to a unit employee more than a total of three (3) classes per week commencing after 6 p.m., or a total of two (2) such evening classes per week if the instructor has already been assigned an evening class in accordance with the provisions of Section 46. The Employer further shall not be obligated to offer the foregoing part-time instructor displacement option as an alternative to layoff to any individual unit employee for more than four (4) consecutive semesters (or a total of six (6) consecutive semesters with respect to employees with fifteen