Involuntary Reassignment Procedures for Full-Time Employees Clause Samples
The Involuntary Reassignment Procedures for Full-Time Employees clause outlines the process by which an employer can reassign full-time employees to different roles or departments without the employee's consent. Typically, this clause specifies the conditions under which such reassignments may occur, such as organizational restructuring, redundancy, or business needs, and may detail notice requirements, the scope of permissible new assignments, and any support or accommodations provided to affected employees. Its core function is to provide a clear, standardized framework for managing workforce changes while minimizing disputes and ensuring operational flexibility for the employer.
Involuntary Reassignment Procedures for Full-Time Employees. A. Subject to Veterans’ Preference regulations, all bargaining unit employees shall, to the maximum extent possible, be involuntarily reassigned to available positions in accordance with the following:
1. Excess bargaining unit employees shall be reassigned, to the extent possible, to available positions having the identical occupation code in the same Center or other Centers, or functional areas in the same Center or other Centers.
2. Upon completion of the reassignments designated in paragraph 1. above, a bid process will be initiated within each Center for preferred assignments, tours, hours, days off and for those positions specified in Article 37, Section 11, for which there are vacancies. This paragraph shall not be construed as a waiver of the 90-day detail requirement set forth in Article 40, Section 1.H., of this Agreement.
3. Upon the completion of reassignments as referenced in the immediately preceding paragraph, the remaining excessed bargaining unit employees shall be reassigned, to the extent possible, to available positions for which they are qualified at the same or lower level in the same Center or other Centers, or functional areas in the same or other Centers.
4. When two or more such vacancies are simultaneously available, first choice of duty assignment shall go to the senior qualified, displaced employee.
B. New or vacant positions in a gaining functional area or Center which are not filled through the reassignment procedures referenced in Section 2.A.1-4 of this Article shall be posted once for competitive application. The best qualified applicant shall be selected in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article 33 of this Agreement.
C. Residual vacancies created as a consequence of the competitive application procedure outlined in Section 2.B of this Article shall be posted once for bid and/or competitive application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
D. After exercising the procedures set forth in Section 2.A-C of this Article, the Employer may then reassign those remaining unassigned bargaining unit employees to any available position for which the employee is qualified within the same Center or other Centers. The employee’s preference will be honored if there is more than one assignment available for which he/she is qualified.
E. A full-time bargaining unit employee shall have the option of changing to part-time status in the same position in lieu of involuntary reassignment.
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