Common use of General Layoff Clause in Contracts

General Layoff. (1) An employee who has acquired seniority rights pursuant to the provisions of Section 2 of this Article shall not be laid off under the gen- eral layoff provisions of this Sub-Section (A) unless all employees in his occupation who have not acquired seniority rights pursuant to the pro- visions of Section 2 of this Article have been laid off. In a department where a surplus in an occupation develops and employees in such de- partment and occupation who have acquired seniority rights and possess the same seniority date become vulnerable to layoff, such employ- ee(s) possessing prior service will be given pref- erence (where prior service information is avail- able) in the following order; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Lockheed ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Aeronautics Hires, Lockheed ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Corporation Hires and Others. Employ- ees will be considered in these groups and the employee with the earliest original hire date will be considered more senior. The next preference will be given to employees with the lowest last five (5) digits in their employee number. Em- ployee numbers (or prior service considerations) cannot be used for the purpose of displacing into another department or classification (2) (DELETED 1986 NEGOTIATIONS) (3) Employees who have acquired seniority rights shall be laid off in order of seniority ap- plied by occupation, within the Company, where ability, skill and efficiency are substantially equal. This provision shall be applied as fol- lows: (a) Where ability, skill and efficiency are sub- stantially equal, employees within the surplus group shall displace the least senior employees in the occupation in the Company. (b) Employees in a department where a surplus in an occupation develops whose seniority makes them vulnerable to layoff from the occu- pation shall be included within the group consid- ered as surplus within the department. (4) An employee who has acquired seniority rights scheduled for layoff shall be placed in any lower-rated classification previously held or in any lateral classification previously held by such employee, provided that he is qualified to per- form the work of any less senior employee in such classification in the department where the least senior employee in such classification is located and provided further that such less sen- ior employee, whose work the surplus employee is qualified to perform is, himself, qualified to perform the work of the least senior employee in such classification. In this event such less senior