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ARTICLE 7 - LAYOFF AND REEMPLOYMENT 7.1 Layoff Whenever in the judgment of the City Council it becomes necessary in the interest of economy or because the position involved no longer exists, the City Council may abolish any position or employment in the competitive service or reduce the number of hours for any position in the competitive service, and the employee holding such position or employment may be laid off, either partially or completely, without the filing of written charges. Any appointing power may likewise lay off a regular employee whenever lack of work or funds shall require a reduction in the number of employees. Both parties agree that the preferred means of reducing staff is through attrition. 7.2 Notification of Layoff 7.2.1 The City shall notify, in writing, the employee and the Union at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to the effective date of layoff and shall indicate the reason or reasons for the layoff. A copy of this Article 7, Layoff and Reemployment, shall be attached to the written notice. 7.2.2 Upon request, the Union shall be afforded an opportunity to meet with the City to discuss the circumstances requiring the layoff and any proposed alternatives. The City will offer to meet and confer with the Union regarding the impacts of specific layoffs. 7.3 Grievance of Layoff An employee, who receives notice of a specific action under the layoff procedure and believes that the layoff procedure has not been correctly applied, in the employee's case, may appeal as provided in the grievance procedure. The decision itself to lay off shall be specifically excluded from the grievance or any other appeal procedure. 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 employees in the SEIU Unit are reemployed or offered reemployment from the appropriate reemployment list. Casual and term -funded employees placed in the unit will have a length of service date that commences on the first day of the first pay period in which they are being placed in the bargaining unit. Service rendered as a casual orcontract employee priorto being placed in the unit will notcount toward length of service for the purpose of determining order of layoff and bumping rights, or any other vested right or benefit associated with unit representation. 7.4.2 In the event further reductions are necessary, employees with the least amount of combined service in the classification affected and any former classification of equal or higher rate of pay that the employee 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