Common use of Lay-Offs and Returns Clause in Contracts

Lay-Offs and Returns. a. Should the Authority be obliged to reduce its force in a slack or dull period, the reduction shall be made on the basis of seniority with the last hired to be the first laid off. The Authority shall provide to affected employees fourteen days advanced notice. b. When the work again increases, the person last laid off will be the first to be re-employed in accordance with seniority. c. In order to retain seniority, each person recalled must return within two (2) weeks of the date of receipt of notice to return. The notice will be mailed to the operator's last known address as shown in the personnel file. The Union will be notified. d. Full-time operators do not have to accept school operator work to hold seniority for full-time operator recall. e. Any full-time operator who has been laid off will be offered the opportunity to perform spare transit work or school work. If work is accepted, said operator will be placed on the part-time school operator's roster according to original date of hire with continual employment. Any employee who is forced off the spare transit list due to the acceptance of work by a full- time operator in accordance with this paragraph, will be returned to the spare transit list when that operator returns to his or her original full-time position. f. Full-time operators will have first chance at recall to permanent work as work becomes available, by seniority even if they did not accept part-time work because of a lay-off.

Lay-Offs and Returns. a. Should the Authority be obliged to reduce its force in a slack or dull period, the reduction shall be made on the basis of seniority with the last hired to be the first laid off. The Authority shall provide to affected employees fourteen days advanced notice. b. When the work again increases, the person last laid off will be the first to be re-employed in accordance with seniority. c. In order to retain seniority, each person recalled must return within two (2) weeks of the date of receipt of notice to return. The notice will be mailed to the operator's ’s last known address as shown in the personnel file. The Union will be notified. d. Full-time operators do not have to accept school operator work to hold seniority for full-time operator recall. e. Any full-time operator who has been laid off will be offered the opportunity to perform spare transit work or school work. If work is accepted, said operator will be placed on the part-time school operator's ’s roster according to original date of hire with continual employment. Any employee who is forced off the spare transit list due to the acceptance of work by a full- full-time operator in accordance with this paragraph, will be returned to the spare transit list when that operator returns to his or her original full-time position. f. Full-time operators will have first chance at recall to permanent work as work becomes available, by seniority even if they did not accept part-time work because of a lay-off.