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SENIORITY AND RELATED MATTERS
Newly hired employees shall have no seniority during their probationary period, but upon completion of the probationary period their seniority date shall be the date of hire. Employees in classifications included in Section 2115.02, “Classifications”, shall be probationary employees for a period of one thousand five hundred and sixty (1,560) actual hours worked after successful completion of on the job training. Said employees shall not receive any fringe benefits during the initial one hundred and sixty (160) actual work hours of employment, but shall be entitled to full fringe benefits thereafter.
A performance appraisal system for individual employees may be adopted or continued and instituted by the City in cooperation with Local 7. The system's use in rewarding exemplary performance and determining training needs shall be initiated by mutual agreement with Local 7 by a committee consisting of up to six (6) members (3 City, 3 Local 7), at least one of which from the affected unit.
The performance appraisal system shall include a measurement instrument, mutually agreed to by the City and the Union, including the establishment of performance goals to be agreed upon by the employee and the supervisor. The system shall include training in proper evaluation techniques for both employee and supervisor.
Following the development of the system and employee training, a trial period, not to exceed six (6) months, shall be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the performance evaluation system. Data from the trial period will be used to evaluate methods of improving the system.
After the trial period and the evaluation of the pilot performance appraisal system, the modified system may be replicated in other divisions by mutual agreement of the City and the Union.
Seniority shall accrue to regular full time employees of the City and shall be based upon the total length of continuous service with the City, and shall be used for the purpose of determining layoffs, bumping rights and recall rights.
The seniority date of a City employee shall be the date of the employee's appointment as a permanent or provisional employee. If the employee (1) was originally hired directly by the City as a temporary employee and (2) worked continuously full-time, and (3) was subsequently made a permanent or provisional employee in any classification without a break in service, then upon the employee's successful completion of the probationary period in the permanent or provisional position, the employee's seniority date shall be the date of original appointment to the temporary appointment.
All full-time continuous service as a temporary employee meeting the above criteria shall be counted for the purpose of determining the employee's entitlement to fringe benefits. If the employee had worked as a temporary continuously full time for one hundred and twenty (120) work days, then the employee shall be eligible for fringe benefits immediately upon appointment as a permanent or provisional employee.
Unit Seniority shall mean seniority in a classification within the unit and shall be used for preference of vacations, bonus vacations, holidays, shift selection for non-probationary employees, use of compensatory time and placement on the overtime rotating list and bidding vacancies on shifts in accordance with recognized Divisional Agreements. Where a Divisional Agreement specifies bid rights, those provisions will control over the assignment of work. Unit seniority shall also be used for purposes of alternate and provisional appointments as provided in Sections 2115.54, “Alternates”, and 2115.49(c), “Promotions”. “Unit” means an operational section based on common work and/or site location. Unit determination shall be mutually agreed to by the City and the Union and be incorporated into the Divisional Agreements.
It is the intent of the parties that job tasks will be rotated on each shift as equitably as possible.
The City will provide seniority lists. These lists shall be kept up-to-date and give the employee's City-wide seniority date and current permanent or provisional classification seniority date. The list shall be posted for all employees to see. These lists shall be furnished to the Union upon reasonable request.
All of Local 7's officers, divisional stewards and departmental stewards shall have top seniority during their term of office in that order regardless of length of continuous service for the purpose of layoff and recall. The only exception to this section is where there is more than one steward in a division or unit and there are different zones; the stewards shall exercise their seniority so that all zones will be covered. They shall return to their original standings on the seniority list at the end of their terms of office.
(a) Military leave
An employee who is called or enlists into military service shall be placed on an approved leave of absence during the time the employee is required to serve. Upon discharge, the employee shall have ninety (90) calendar days to report back to the City to be reassigned in accordance with the law. The employee shall accrue seniority while on such leave as provided in part (b).
(b) Seniority during military service
Regular employees who leave the service of the City to enter that of the United States Armed Forces, or the services of the U.S. Maritime Commission, or who are drafted by the United States Government for civilian services, will, upon their return, within ninety (90) calendar days from release from such service, be granted all seniority rights as if continuously employed by the City during such service. Sick leave accrued prior to the date of an employee's entrance into the military service shall be preserved until their return to City employment. Whenever vacancies occur in the classified service by reason of a military leave of absence, appointments may be made for the duration of the emergency or earlier return to City service of the employees granted such leaves for military service. All such appointments shall be subject to the priority rights of the permanent employees granted military leaves.
(C) Military pay
A regular employee of the City who is on short - term military training duty shall be paid the difference between the employee's regular rate of pay and the pay the employee receives from the military service for such period for up to thirty-one (31) calendar days in any calendar year. This pay is not for the purposes of attending monthly organizational or training meetings in a reserve unit.
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