Seniority Preferences, Strict Seniority. The employee with the earliest seniority date (greatest seniority) shall have preferential rights regarding the following personnel actions: shift selection, vacation periods, and special service hours (including overtime and the right to refuse overtime). These rights shall, however, be applicable only within individual departments or job assignments in which bargaining unit members are ordinarily considered to be fungible. With regards to vacation scheduling, the intent of this subsection is that senior employees have preferential but not absolute rights to vacation requests for days surrounding major holidays. Individual departments may develop and implement reasonable rules to insure an equitable approach to vacation scheduling surrounding major holidays.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement