Common use of Layoff Application Clause in Contracts

Layoff Application. Should the City decide, for labor cost-control reasons, to permanently eliminate bargaining Unit work by permanently replacing existing bargaining Unit positions with contract or subcontract employees to do the same work under similar conditions of employment (“Work Elimination”), the City agrees to provide PPMMA leadership notice of potential layoffs no later than thirty (30) days prior to the anticipated effective date. City will issue notices of layoff to the impacted employees no later than twenty-one (21) days prior to the effective date of layoffs in order to allow the employees to meet and confer with respect to the effects of the proposed action upon the employees and to propose effective economical methods, if any, by which such work could continue to be provided by the City’s own employees. The City will encourage contract firms to provide laid off employees’ preference in hiring for contract work.