Common use of Procedures for Retrenchment Clause in Contracts

Procedures for Retrenchment. 17.6.1 The University shall, in good faith, consider whether the need for retrenchment can be alleviated through normal attrition or other alternatives to retrenchment. If doing so will prevent or minimize the need for retrenchment of Bargaining Unit Faculty Members, the University will cease using adjunct faculty and temporarily increase teaching loads of Members within a department, within a college, or university-wide. In making its decisions about retrenchment, the University shall, in good faith, give consideration to the factors listed in Sections 17.4.1 and 17.4.2. 17.6.2 Except as provided for in Section 17.6.6 and consistent with the operating needs of the level of organization the University has deemed appropriate for retrenchment, the University shall retrench faculty by rank in inverse order of seniority within the unit(s) identified for retrenchment. 17.6.3 Visiting faculty will be retrenched before Instructors, who will be retrenched before Lecturers, who will be retrenched before Senior Lecturers within a particular Program, Department or College. In like fashion, Clinical Instructors will be retrenched before Clinical Assistant Professors. 17.6.4 Within each academic rank, seniority shall be calculated from the earliest date of continuous University employment. 17.6.4.1 Leaves with pay shall count as years of service for seniority. 17.6.4.2 While unpaid leaves shall not count as years of service for seniority, neither do they constitute a break in continuous University employment.