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TENTATIVE AGREEMENT - ADDENDUM TO MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING <br />BETWEEN REDWOOD CITY AND SEIU LOCAL 521 <br />RE: CONTRACT EMPLOYEES <br /> <br />Page 5 of 23 <br />including term-funded positions, and the employee holding such position or <br />employment may be laid off, either partially or completely, without the filing of <br />written charges. Any appointing power may likewise lay off a regular employee <br />whenever lack of work or funds shall require a reduction in the number of employees. <br />Both parties agree that the preferred means of reducing staff is through attrition. <br />7.2 Notification of Layoff <br />7.2.1 The City shall notify, in writing, the employee and the Union at least thirty (30) <br />calendar days prior to the effective date of layoff and shall indicate the reason <br />or reasons for the layoff. A copy of this Article 7, Layoff and Reemployment, <br />shall be attached to the written notice. <br />7.2.2 Upon request, the Union shall be afforded an opportunity to meet with the <br />City to discuss the circumstances requiring the layoff and any proposed <br />alternatives. The City will offer to meet and confer with the Union regarding <br />the impacts of specific layoffs. <br />7.3 Grievance of Layoff <br />An employee, who receives notice of a specific action under the layoff procedure and <br />believes that the layoff procedure has not been correctly applied, in the employee's case, <br />may appeal as provided in the grievance procedure. The decision itself to lay off shall be <br />specifically excluded from the grievance or any other appeal procedure. <br />7.4 Order of Layoff <br />7.4.1 Prior to any layoff within the SEIU Unit, non-regular (term-funded, contract, <br />and casual) employees performing duties of the affected classifications shall <br />be separated from service first. No non-regular employees shall be employed <br />until all regular employees in the SEIU Unit are reemployed or offered <br />reemployment from the appropriate reemployment list. <br />Casual and Contract and term-funded employees placed in the unit will have <br />a length of service date that commences on the first day of the first pay period <br />in which they are being placed in the bargaining unit. Service rendered as a <br />casual or contract employee prior to being placed in the unit will not count <br />toward length of service for the purpose of determining order of layoff and <br />bumping rights, or any other vested right or benefit associated with unit <br />representation. <br />7.4.2 In the event further reductions are necessary, employees with the least <br />amount of combined service in the classification affected and any former <br />classification of equal or higher rate of pay that the employee may have held <br />ATTACHMENT A8.E. - Page 13 of 31 <br />50