Bidding and Posting. (i) Upon final determination of the Bid Pool a posting will be generated outlining all routes and Owner Operators included in the Bid Pool. The seniority of the Owner Operators and specific route information will be detailed in the posting.
Bidding and Posting. An open job is a job to which no other employee is assigned. A job is not an open job if the employee regularly assigned to it is absent because of illness, vacation, or other reason recognized by the Company as proper. Transfers for a period of two (2) weeks or less, transfers to jobs that are not open, shall be treated as temporary. When a job becomes an open job, notice will be placed on departmental bulletin boards so employees will have an opportunity to bid for the open job within five (5) working days from the date of posting. An employee who is on vacation when a job is placed for bid shall have two (2) days from the days of his/her return to request that he/she be considered a bidder. Bid sheets showing the rate of pay, shift and department involved of the open job will be posted on the lunchroom bulletin board. The official posting will be maintained in a notebook located in the mailroom adjacent to the plant entrance. Employees who bid on a posted job will visit the job site during the five (5) working days that an open job is posted. Job site visitation will not be conducted for employees bidding on open jobs that they are familiar with, or on jobs that they have previously performed, or on jobs within their own production unit. Employees must secure permission from their immediate supervisor prior to making a job site visit. Once an employee is awarded the bid, the employee is expected to satisfactorily perform on the job. Employees may not voluntarily disqualify themselves after an award is made by the Company. The successful bidder will be determined under the following terms and provisions: Employees in the department where the vacancy occurs will be given the first preference in accordance with this ARTICLE VII, Section 2. If the job is not awarded on this basis, then employees who bid from any department will be considered in accordance with ARTICLE VII, Section 2. If there are no successful bidders, the Company may transfer any qualified employee to the job; all such transfers shall be made with mutual agreement between the Company and employee. If there are no bidders, the Company may require any employee in the production trainee classification to accept the job or the Company may hire a new employee for the job. When an employee is awarded a posted job, and subsequently fails to perform the work satisfactorily after a fair trial period, the employee shall be returned to his/her former job. The duration of the trial period will depend ...
