Agmt14 Servie Employees International Union SEIU MOU 2014-2017

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7.4 Order of Layoff 7.4.1 Prior to any layoff within the SEIU Unit, non-regular employees performing duties of the affected classifications shall be separated from service first. No non-regular employees shall be employed until all regular workers in the SEIU Unit are reemployed or offered reemployment from the appropriate reemployment list. 7.4.2 In the event further reductions are necessary,workers with the least amount of combined service in the classification affected and any former classification of equal or higher rate of pay that the worker may have held with the City (classification shall be defined as the individual job title as listed in Appendix A)shall be the first laid off. For the purposes of calculating combined service in classification, time served in a classification which changed title as the result of a reclassification will be added to the seniority in the new classification if the reclassification did not result in at least a five percent(5%)salary increase. 7.4.3 If two (2) or more workers have an equal length of service as defined in 7.4.2 above, the order of layoff shall be determined by the workers' rank on the eligibility list for his/her current classification. The worker's ranking on the eligibility list is determined by his/her score on the final examination in the testing process for his/her current classification. If two (2) or more workers have an equal length of service and a tie ranking on the eligibility list, the order of layoff will be determined by his/her score on the classification test immediately preceding the examination that established the eligibility list, assuming such an examination was conducted. 7.5 Bumping Rights The following section describes three distinct options available for workers who have received a notice of layoff. Any worker who has received a notice of layoff must exercise these options, outlined as follows. First, a worker must exhaust his/her bumping rights as described in Article 7.5.1. If a worker is unable to bump in accordance with the provisions in Article 7.5.1 and will suffer a layoff, the worker can then, and only then, elect to exercise his/her options as described in either Article 7.5.2 or Article 7.5.3, at the discretion of the worker. 7.5.1 A regular worker who has received a notice of layoff may elect, in lieu of layoff, to be reassigned to a position in a lateral or lower related classification within his/her department, or another department, provided that in order to displace the worker with less service the laid off worker must have held regular status in the classification into which he/she is bumping. 7.5.2 A worker who was unable to bump in accordance with the provisions in Article 7.5.1 and will suffer a layoff, may elect to bump a worker with less seniority in a lateral or lower classification in his/her job family as outlined in Appendix A. If two (2) or more workers request to bump the same worker with less seniority as described herein, the worker with the highest seniority, as defined in Article 7.5.7, will have his/her request granted. Any additions, deletions or modifications to the Job Family charts in Appendix A shall be only through the formal meet and confer process. 7.5.3 If the worker is unable to bump a worker with less seniority as described in Article 7.5.1 or Article 7.5.2, or opts not to exercise his/her rights in Article 7.5.2, he/she may accept a voluntary transfer or demotion to a vacant position in a lateral or lower related classification in which no previous service has been rendered provided that, in the opinion of the Personnel Officer, the worker meets the minimum qualifications of the classification. If two (2) or more workers request to 8