Common use of Assignment of Unencumbered Employees Assignment of unencumbered Clause in Contracts

Assignment of Unencumbered Employees Assignment of unencumbered. employee(s) will be made within 21 days of the duty assignment becoming residual (Article37.1) 1. Any unencumbered employee(s) who becomes unencumbered for any reason will receive saved grade (Article 37.4.C.6.a) if he/she voluntarily bids to a lower level duty assignment(s) prior to or during the involuntary assignments. Once an employee is assigned to a same or higher level duty assignment (Article 37.4.C.5) and notified in writing of an assignment this option of bidding a lower level duty assignment will no longer be available. 2. If there are sufficient same or higher level vacan- cies, unencumbered employees shall be involun- tarily assigned to same or higher level vacancies in accordance with Article 37, Section 4.C.5. 3. If there are insufficient same or higher level vacancies to accommodate assignment of all unencumbered employees, preference eligible employees will be placed first into the same or higher level vacancies in accordance with Article 37, Section 4.C.5. 4. After placement of the unencumbered preference eligible employees, non-preference eligible unen- cumbered employees will be placed in accordance with Article 37, Section 4.C.5.