Common use of - FORCE REDUCTION AND RECALL Clause in Contracts

- FORCE REDUCTION AND RECALL. A. This shall be exclusive remedy for reducing the workforce by layoffs and shall not require the Board to fill any vacancy. When it becomes necessary due to lack of work, lack of funds, closing of a school, or job abolishment to reduce the number of positions in a job classification within the bargaining unit, this procedure shall be used: 1. The Superintendent shall meet with the Union to first discuss the potential reductions. The number of people affected by such reductions will be kept to a minimum by not employing replacements for those employees who otherwise leave the employ of the district. 2. Members of this bargaining unit will be reduced based on seniority in order from the lowest to the highest. Seniority shall be defined as the employee’s continuous length of service from the most recent date of hire by the Board.