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ARTICLE 14 SENIORITY AND LAYOFF Section 1. A. Seniority shall consist of full-time active continuous accumulated paid service with the Department. Department Seniority shall be computed from the date of initial appointment, and shall be used when layoffs are being considered or when employees are bidding for special opportunities that arise (e.g. trainings, special events). However, Seniority within a rank, based on date of appointment to that rank, shall be used when employees are bidding for benefits or entitlements under this Agreement (e.g. shift selection, time -off). Seniority shall accumulate during absences because of vacation, military leave or other authorized leave. Seniority will not accrue for time an employee who is relieved of duty without pay, suspended for 80 hours or more, and on unpaid leave of absence. Such seniority shall govern the following: B. In the event of a layoff for budgetary reasons, employees shall be laid off in the inverse order of their seniority in their rank. Any employee to be laid off who has advanced to a rank above patrolman in which he/she holds a permanent appointment, shall be given a position in a lower rank according to his/her total seniority with the Department. The City Manager has the right to deviate from this procedure to retain employees with special skills or capabilities essential to the City. C. Employees shall be called back from layoffs according to the seniority in the classification from which the employee was laid off. No new employees shall be hired in any classification until all employees on layoff status on the callback list in that classification have had an opportunity to return to work. Employees will be notified by registered mail to their home address of record and shall be given twenty-one (2 1) calendar days to return to work or be stricken from the list. An employee who has not been stricken from the list will be kept on the callback list for one (1) year. After this period, the City will no longer be obligated to request that this employee be returned to City employment. Section 2. Selection of days off shall be by seniority provided the City's operational needs have been satisfied. Within ten (10) business days of an employee's request to change or modify the employee's selected days off, the City shall provide the employee with a written response to the employee's request. Section 3. The Police Chief shall determine how many employee(s) the City needs for each -23- 149