Common use of Date of Appointment Clause in Contracts

Date of Appointment. a) Except as provided in 11.04 j), a permanent employee's date of appointment into a job shall be, for layoff and rehire purposes, the date that the employee was originally appointed to a permanent job within the class to be reduced. However, a permanent employee's date of appointment into a dual trades class shall be for layoff and rehire purposes, the date that the employee was originally appointed to a permanent job within the employee's first trades class. In the event of a reduction of a job within a dual trade class, a dually qualified employee may use his seniority to displace the most junior employee in either of the single trades classes for which he is dually qualified.