Common use of Transfer to Higher Category Clause in Contracts

Transfer to Higher Category. 1. With respect to General Merchandise Clerks/Meat Clerks (including prior Bakery, Health and Beauty Aids and Household Hardware Clerks), when a permanent job is available for work to be performed in Food, any General Merchandise/Meat Clerk employees in the store shall be considered candidates. If a General Merchandise Clerk/Meat Clerk is selected for the Food position, such employee shall be paid the rate of pay according to said employee's experience. All employees, including those hired prior to October 6, 2003, who are promoted to a higher rated classification of employment shall be subject to the wage progression schedule set forth in Appendix A and receive the next immediate higher rate of pay for that classification as set forth in Appendix A until such time as the employee has accumulated sufficient total credited hours of experience equal to the hours required for that step of the new classification rate before proceeding to the next rate in the progression schedule. 2. Where an employee is transferred from one category of work to another, the seniority acquired with the store and the Company shall be retained, and the new seniority in the new category shall