Common use of Exercise of Seniority Clause in Contracts

Exercise of Seniority. The current practices for granting holidays off shall continue. If, in the future, 70% or more of the employees in the department believe the system no longer works, the parties shall meet and develop a new process. A new system can be changed only once per calendar year. If no process can be agreed to then the following language will be used: Recognized holidays shall not be included in either of the PTO vacation bid periods. Each employee shall be given an opportunity, in order of seniority, to express a preference prior to posting of holiday schedules as to whether the employee should work the holiday or be off the holiday. Employees who elect to work on a holiday will elect to work a shift within their work agreement. Holiday schedules will be filled as follows: a. Regularly scheduled employees who elect to work the holiday, in order of seniority. b. Casual employees who elect to work the holiday or who must work the holiday in order to meet their casual requirement, in order of seniority. c. Regularly scheduled employees who did not want to work the holidays, in reverse order of seniority. Employees required to work under Item c will not be guaranteed to work a shift within their work agreement, though every effort will be made to provide a shift matches. Holiday schedules created prior to May 3, 2008 will remain in effect. No employee will be required to work on all of the “Big Three” holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day) in a holiday season, unless the employee agrees to work all three holidays. Employees may be required to work two of the “Big Three” holidays if required to do so in the process outlined above. Casual employees must be available to work two holidays per year, one of which must be Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s.

Exercise of Seniority. The current practices for granting holidays off shall continue. If, in the future, 70% or more of the employees in the department believe the system no longer works, the parties shall meet and develop a new process. A new system can be changed only once per calendar year. If no process can be agreed to then the following language will be used: Recognized holidays shall not be included in either of the PTO vacation bid periods. Each employee shall be given an opportunity, in order of seniority, to express a preference prior to posting of holiday schedules as to whether the employee should work the holiday or be off the holiday. Employees who elect to work on a holiday will elect to work a shift within their work agreement. Holiday schedules will be filled as follows: a. Regularly scheduled employees who elect to work the holiday, in order of seniority. b. Casual employees who elect to work the holiday or who must work the holiday in order to meet their casual requirement, in order of seniority. c. Regularly scheduled employees who did not want to work the holidays, in reverse order of seniority. Employees required to work under Item c will not be guaranteed to work a shift within their work agreement, though every effort will be made to provide a shift matches. Holiday schedules created prior to May 3, 2008 will remain in effect. No employee will be required to work on all of the “Big Three” holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day) in a holiday season, unless the employee agrees to work all three holidays. Employees may be required to work two of the “Big Three” holidays if required to do so in the process outlined above. Casual employees must be available to work two holidays per year, one of which must be Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s. OWATONNA and ST. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇: The current practices for granting holidays off shall continue through New Year’s Day 2009, at which point the practice will convert to the general contract language. If 70% or more of employees in a department prefer their current process to the general contract language, they may elect to keep the current process in a secret ballot election prior to January 1, 2009.