Common use of Assignment of Routes Clause in Contracts

Assignment of Routes. 1. The Employer shall determine which buses will normally be assigned to which routes two (2) weeks prior to the start of each school year. The Employer will present to the Union a list of routes to be covered, indicating thereon the bus which the Employer anticipates will normally be assigned to each run and the expected time required to run said routes. 2. A regular route that is canceled or altered by 30 minutes or more shall be reposted. The displaced driver may select a route of a less senior driver only if the displaced driver would gain 30 minutes or more from the current reposted position. At that time the employees shall be entitled to exercise their seniority for preference of routes to which they wish to be assigned. 3. No employee shall have an aggregate assignment of greater than eight (8) hours and no driver shall be awarded more than one mid day, noon, or academic after school run that runs longer than four weeks until all interested drivers have one such run assigned to them. This would include any after school academic run that is added at any time during the school year and runs longer than 4 weeks. 4. Thereafter, during the school year, when a permanent vacancy occurs on any route, employees may exercise their seniority in bidding for such vacancy. Such vacancy shall be assigned to the bidding employee with the most seniority who is qualified and has the then present ability and physical fitness to satisfactorily perform the work without training. 5. It is expressly understood that the Employer reserves the right to disqualify a bidding employee or switch assignments of drivers at any time when, in the Employer's judgment, the safety and/or welfare of the school children requires such action. If the employee believes that such disqualification or switching of assignment was for capricious or unfounded reasons, the grievance procedure may be invoked.