Common use of Transfer to Non-Bargaining Unit Position Clause in Contracts

Transfer to Non-Bargaining Unit Position. If an employee covered by this Agreement is permanently transferred or promoted to a non-bargaining unit position within the Sheriff's Department and the employee remains in said non-bargaining unit position for a consecutive period of ninety (90) calendar days or longer, the employee shall retain the employee’s classification and departmental seniority as of the date of the transfer or promotion but the employee shall no longer accumulate additional classification and departmental seniority within the bargaining unit set forth in this Agreement while the employee is in the non-bargaining unit position. Employees returning to the bargaining unit subsequent to the expiration of the above ninety (90) calendar day period; shall have their seniority reinstated upon the date of their return and shall thereafter begin to accumulate seniority again. Employees returning to the bargaining unit from any classification other than Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Corrections Administrator or Undersheriff subsequent to the expiration of the ninety (90) calendar day period shall have their seniority reinstated upon the date of their return only if they return to the bargaining unit within two (2) years of the date of the transfer or promotion. The retention of seniority as provided in this section shall not permit an employee to return to the bargaining unit as a matter of right provided in Section 10.0. During the first ninety (90) calendar days of a transfer or promotion provided by this section an employee shall be entitled to return to the position held at the time of transfer or promotion, and shall have accumulated seniority during such period.