There is hereby established for the benefit of the employees of the City who are members of Local 1256, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, except members of the Police and Fire Departments, a system of seniority and regulations covering the conditions of work and employment as follows:
The City will continue to recognize this labor organization as bargaining representative of its employees for such period of time as the labor organization retains its collective bargaining status.
(a) There shall be established in the various departments a seniority list covering the employees in such departments and brought up to date and posted every six months.
(b) For the purpose of determining vacation and other rights pertaining to length of service, all service with the City shall be on a cumulative basis for the purpose of determining such rights.
(c) For the purpose of promotion, transfers, layoffs or recalls, seniority shall prevail.
(d) In reduction of work and employment due to lack of money appropriation or lack of work, or for any reason the force is reduced, then the youngest employee in point of seniority shall be laid off first; in this order: emergency, provisional, temporary, seasonal and probationary permanent employees shall be laid off next.
(e) In recalling part or full-time employees, the oldest employee in point of seniority on the laid off or furlough list shall be first recalled before new employees are given employment.
(f) Any vacancy in a better paid position or a better position from the standpoint of the character of the work entailed in a position shall be given to an employee or employees with the greatest seniority, subject only to such employees being qualified to perform the work entailed in the position.
(g) Seniority may be lost by an employee in the following manner:
(1) Voluntary termination of employment.
(2) Discharge for good and sufficient cause.
(3) Failure to return to work after layoff or fulough, within three days after notification by registered mail by the department head or someone acting on his discretion, unless unable to do so by illness or other physical disability not caused by his own act or carelessness.
(Ord. 3751. Passed 11-9-64.)