Inverse Seniority Clause Samples

The Inverse Seniority clause establishes that, in certain situations such as layoffs or workforce reductions, employees with the least seniority are retained while those with the most seniority are let go first. This approach is the opposite of traditional seniority systems, which typically protect longer-serving employees. By applying this clause, an employer may prioritize retaining newer employees, perhaps to preserve specific skills or reduce costs, thereby addressing organizational needs that a standard seniority system might not accommodate.
Inverse Seniority a) Upon mutual agreement between the Company and the Union the parties may enter into an arrangement applying the concept of inverse seniority to layoffs. b) This application is intended to cover layoffs of a limited and known duration. c) When a circumstance arises that appears to fit the concept the Company and the Union will promptly and jointly determine if the inverse seniority provisions will apply.
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Inverse Seniority. Upon request of the Local Union, the parties shall enter into an agreement applying the concept of inverse seniority where: (1) the layoff is for a definite time and limited duration, and (2) all employees with less than one year's seniority have been laid off from the affected group referred to below. The Union agrees that any such local agreement shall give full consideration to and shall not impair plant operating efficiencies, including, but not limited to, those inefficiencies which might occur as a consequence of undesirable bumping or replacement of employees. Consistent with this requirement, it is further agreed that employees shall be laid off and recalled under the terms of this inverse seniority layoff procedure by groups (defined by classification and department) to be negotiated by the parties. It is expressly understood that the parties shall not enter into arrangements which permit employees on inverse seniority layoff to return to work to be replaced on layoff by other employees during the period of limited layoff. Nor will an employee who is laid off pursuant to an inverse seniority arrangement be permitted to return to work as a result of exhaustion of, or disqualification from, State Unemployment Compensation Benefits or Company provided Supplemental Unemployment Benefits. Nothing in the foregoing shall preclude the Company from recalling any employee prior to the expiration of the limited layoff period. If the Union President believes that a particular layoff, which does not meet the above criteria, warrants the application of inverse seniority, it may make a request to that effect to the Local Union. The Local Union may take up any such requests which it believes to be meritorious with the Company.
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Inverse Seniority. When under the preceding sequence, a reduction will affect a regular employee; the least senior employee shall be laid off consistent with staffing all positions with qualified personnel at levels to be determined by the Employer.
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Inverse Seniority a) Upon mutual agreement between the Company and the Union the parties may enter into an arrangement applying the concept of inverse seniority to layoffs. b) The application is to cover only those layoffs which the Company believes to be of a limited and known duration. c) When such a layoff occurs, the Company will promptly meet with the Union and advise if the inverse seniority provisions apply. a) The layoff must be for a definite period of time and of limited duration. b) Employees will be laid off and recalled under the terms of the seniority provisions by grades and classifications as mutually agreed by the Company and the Union. c) It is expressly understood that no provision can exist which would allow an employee who exercised an option of being laid off under this provision to return to work before the exhaustion of the limited/ predetermined layoff period and as a result force the layoff of another employee. d) No employee laid off under this provision will be allowed to return to work as a result of the exhaustion of their unemployment insurance benefits. e) The Company shall retain the right to recall any employee prior to the exhaustion of the limited/predetermined layoff period. f) If during the limited/predetermined period of layoff it is determined by the Company that the layoff needs to be extended for any reason and provided further that the parties mutually agree to extend the inverse seniority provisions, the employees who elected layoff under this provision will be canvassed to determine if they wish to continue on layoff for the extended period of time. Such canvass shall be conducted during normal business hours at the telephone number on the Company files for the affected employees. Any employee not reached through this canvass will be determined as having chosen to remain on layoff. A Committee person shall be present during an attempt to contact such an employee before this determination is made. If the laid off employee is contacted and decides he/she wishes to continue on layoff for the extended time, they will be so permitted. If such employee chooses to return, they will be so permitted and any layoffs then required will be conducted in the normal manner.
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Inverse Seniority dated October 17, 1976 In recent negotiation, we discussed the concept of inverse seniority during layoff periods at the Sharonville Plant. When a layoff is for a definite period of time and of limited duration, the parties will negotiate the applicable terms of inverse seniority for that specific layoff in accordance with the provisions outlined in Article VIII, Section 21E of the Master Agreement.
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Inverse Seniority. Lay-offs shall be made in inverse order of seniority within the affected classification, except as provided elsewhere in this Agreement for Chapter Chair and Vice-Chair. Except when moving into the Police Officer classification, a laid off member will be allowed to move into any parallel or lower classification where the laid off employee has more overall Department seniority than the least senior person in that classification. In the case where a laid off member seeks to move into the Police Officer classification, departmental seniority alone shall govern.
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Inverse Seniority. The Company will meet with agreed upon Union representatives to work out the methods which will be applied in Inverse Seniority for the first layoff period in excess of 5 working days applicable to the second week or following weeks of a layoff of known duration. The Union will save the Company harmless from any monetary grievance demands or legal repercussions from E.I. The results will be measured subsequently by the same Company/Union Inverse Seniority Committee and a determination will be reached mutually as to the administration of future similar layoff situations. The usual contract provision involving layoff will not be changed for the term of this contract from the above procedure. Christmas and Model Change layoff periods are exempt from the inverse seniority provision.
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Related to Inverse Seniority

  • Equal Seniority If two (2) or more employees subject to layoff have equal class seniority, the determination as to who shall be laid off will be made on the basis of the greater hire date seniority, and if that be equal, then the determination shall be made by lot.

  • Departmental Seniority Departmental seniority is defined as the length of employment within the employee’s current department. Department seniority shall accrue as of the first day of employment or transfer into a new department.

  • Classification Seniority Classification Seniority" is defined as the length of service in a specific job classification within the bargaining unit, beginning with the date an employee starts to serve a probationary appointment. Classification Seniority shall be interrupted only by separation because of resignation, discharge for just cause, failure to return upon expiration of a leave of absence, failure to respond to a recall from layoff, or retirement.

  • SENIORITY 20.01 Seniority shall be defined as the length of continuous service with the Employer within the bargaining unit. 20.02 Seniority shall continue to accumulate during all paid and unpaid authorized leaves of absence. 20.03 An employee shall cease to have seniority rights and his or her employment status with the Employer shall be terminated for all purposes if the employee: (a) is duly discharged by the Employer and is not reinstated through the grievance and arbitration procedure contained in the Agreement; (b) voluntarily quits or resigns; (c) has been laid off continuously for a period of fifty-two (52) weeks or is called back to work after a layoff and does not return to work within seven (7) calendar days of receiving a registered letter sent to his or her last known address; (d) is absent from work without an approved leave of absence for more than three (3) consecutive working days unless a satisfactory reason is given by the employee. Sickness and/or inability to communicate with the Employer shall be considered a satisfactory reason; (e) fails to return to work on the completion of an authorized leave of absence unless a satisfactory reason is given by the employee. Sickness and/or inability to communicate with the Employer shall be considered a satisfactory reason. 20.04 In cases of layoff, recall, promotion, demotion, transfer, filling vacancy or changes between full time and part time status, the selection shall be based on seniority, merit, skill and ability. Daily available hours of work will be scheduled on the same basis. 20.05 Seniority for full-time employees shall apply amongst full-time employees and it is agreed that all full-time employees shall have seniority over all part- time employees. Part-time employees shall have seniority only over other part-time employees. Part-time employees who become full-time shall begin accumulating their full-time seniority at that time. 20.06 Full-time employees with one (1) or more years of full-time seniority who are reduced to part-time by the Employer shall be placed at the top of the part-time seniority list. Full-time employees with less than one (1) year of service and who have no continuous part-time service with the Employer shall retain their full-time seniority date in the event they are reduced to part-time. 20.07 No full-time employee shall be laid off and/or reduced to part-time status by the Employer unless all part-time employees have been laid off first. 20.08 No new employees shall be hired by the Employer so long as there are qualified part-time employees who are able and willing to perform the work required, or so long as there are employees who are on layoff status who are able and willing to perform the work required. 20.09 Part-time employees shall not be employed or scheduled to the extent that it results in the displacement or prevents the hiring of full-time employees. 20.10 The Employer shall provide the Union in January and July of each calendar year with an up-to-date seniority list of all full-time and all part-time employees covered under the terms of the Collective Agreement.