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<br />ARTICLE 14 <br />SENIORITY AND LA YOFF <br /> <br />Section 1. A. Seniority shall consist of full-time active continuous accumulated <br />paid service with the Department. Department Seniority shall be computed li'om the date of <br />initial appointment, and shall be used when layoffs are being considered or when employees <br />are bidding for special opportunities that arise (e.g. trainings, special events). However, <br />Seniority within a rank, based on date of appointment to that rank, shall be uscd when <br />employees are bidding for benefits or entitlements under this Agreement (e.g. shift selection, <br />time-off). Seniority shall accumulate during absences because of vacation, military leave or <br />other authorized leave. Seniority will not accrue for time an employee who is relieved of <br />duty without pay, suspended for 80 hours or more, and on unpaid leave of absence. Such <br />seniority shall govern the following: <br />B. In the event of a layoff for budgetary reasons, employees shall be laid off in <br />the inverse order of their seniority in their rank. Any employee to be laid off who has <br />advanced to a rank above patrolman in which he/she holds a permanent appointment, shall be <br />given a position in a lower rank according to his/her total seniority with the Department. The <br />City Manager has the right to deviate from this procedure to retain employees with special <br />skills or capabilities essential to the 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 <br />have had an opportunity to return to work. Employees will be notified by registered mail to <br />their home address of record and shall be given twenty-one (21) calendar days to return to <br />work, or be stricken tram the list. An employee who has not been stricken from the list will <br />bc kept on the callback list for one (I) year. After this period, the City will no longer be <br />obligated to request that this employee be returned to City employment. <br /> <br />Section 2. Selection of days off shall be by seniority provided the City's operational <br />needs have been satislied. Within ten (10) business days of an employee's request to change or <br />modify the employee's selected days off, the City shall provide the employee with a written <br /> <br />- t9- <br />