Common use of Prior work experience Clause in Contracts

Prior work experience. 1. A new hire is anyone who fills a full-time encumbered or unencumbered position on a temporary or permanent basis. 2. While a newly hired employee still must serve the probationary period set forth in Paragraph A above, he/she may receive additional credit for pay purposes for relevant prior work experience. Relevant prior work experience is experience doing similar job duties in an employment situation. The application of such work experience is only for new hires, not for use in reconsidering the pay rate for employees already employed. 3. When an individual is hired by the Employer, the Director of HR will evaluate the individual’s work-related experience and provide the employee with a written statement of specifically approved work-related experience credit. Upon the recommendation of the Director of HR, up to six (6) years of practical work-related experience credit for a new hire may be granted on the existing wage schedule to an individual. 4. An individual may request a review of his/her work-related experience credit with the Superintendent. Upon review of the individual’s work- related experience credit, the Superintendent will issue a written statement regarding the determination. 5. Employees who are hired from WWSA into WEA I or WEA II, or from WEA I or WEA II into WWSA, shall not move step-for-step to the new schedule but shall suffer no loss of pay if the employee’s new position requires the same or a higher level of education as the former position. The maximum hourly increase an employee may receive under this section is 10%. There shall be no retroactive application of this section.