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ARTICLE 14 <br />SENIORITY AND LAYOFF <br />Section 1. A. Seniority shall consist of full-time active continuous accumulated paid <br />service with the Department. Department Seniority shall be computed from the date of initial <br />appointment, and shall be used when layoffs are being considered or when employees are bidding for <br />special opportunities that arise (e.g. trainings, special events). However, Seniority within a rank, <br />based on date of appointment to that rank, shall be used when employees are bidding for benefits or <br />entitlements under this Agreement (e.g. shift selection, time -off). Seniority -shall accumulate during <br />absences because of vacation, military leave or other authorized leave. Seniority will not accrue for <br />time an employee who is relieved of duty without pay, suspended for 80 hours or more, and on <br />unpaid leave of absence. Such seniority shall govern the following: <br />B. In the event of a layoff for budgetary reasons, employees shall be laid off in the <br />inverse order of their seniority in their rank. Any employee to be laid off who has advanced to a rank <br />above patrolman in which he/she holds a permanent appointment, shall be given a position in a lower <br />rank according to his/her total seniority with the Department. The City Manager has the right to <br />deviate from this procedure to retain employees with special skills or capabilities essential to the <br />City. <br />C. Employees shall be called back from layoffs according to the seniority in the <br />classification from which the employee was laid off. No new employees shall be hired in any <br />classification until all employees on layoff status on the callback list in that classification have had <br />an opportunity to return to work. Employees will be notified by registered mail to their home address <br />of record and shall be given twenty-one (21) calendar days to return to work, or be stricken from the <br />list. An employee who has not been stricken from the list will be kept on the callback list for one (1) <br />year. After this period, the City will no longer be obligated to request that this employee be returned <br />to City employment. <br />Section 2. Selection of days off shall be by seniority provided the City's operational needs <br />have been satisfied. Within ten (10) business days of an employee's request to change or modify the <br />employee's selected days off, the City shall provide the employee with a written response to the <br />employee's request. <br />-17-Page <br />