Common use of Furlough Clause in Contracts

Furlough. An Employee who desires to leave their position retains the opportunity to return to employment as METRO personnel needs allow. A. An Employee who wishes to take advantage of furlough shall give written notice to METRO and the Union not more than seventy-five (75) nor less than twenty-two (22) calendar days before the date the desired furlough is to take effect. METRO will notify the Employee of the status of their request no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after the application is received. If the needs of METRO dictate, METRO may delay the date of release of furlough by a period not to exceed seventy-five (75) calendar days from the date of submission of request for the furlough. Once the furlough request is submitted to METRO, the Employee may not withdraw the request. Upon separation from METRO, access to the Employee’s PERS contribution will be regulated by State Law. B. The granting of an indefinite furlough shall not exempt an Employee from discipline or discharge. C. The duration of the furlough will be at least six (6) months, but may continue for an indefinite period. ▇▇▇▇▇ will consider return to work requests within the initial six (6) months if unusual circumstances exist. An Employee who wishes to resume service must mail a letter of intent to return by certified mail to METRO’s Human Resources Department. The letter will include the date on which the Employee will first be available for reemployment and an address and phone number where the Employee may be reached. The date an Employee provides as first becoming available for service shall not be more than twenty-four (24) months from the date the Employee began the furlough. An Employee failing to present the letter of intent to METRO and the Union within this twenty-four (24) month period shall be considered to have resigned effective the date the furlough began. An exception to this twenty-four (24) month deadline will be made in the case of an Employee on furlough status due to an Industrial Injury, for which the time limit shall be sixty

Furlough. An Employee Operator who desires to leave their her position retains the opportunity to return to employment as METRO Metro personnel needs allow. A. An Employee Operator who wishes to take advantage of furlough shall give written notice to METRO Metro and the Union not more than seventy-five (75) nor less than twenty-two (22) calendar days before the date the desired furlough is to take effect. METRO Metro will notify the Employee Operator of the status of their her request no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after the application is received. If the needs of METRO Metro dictate, METRO Metro may delay the date of release of furlough by a period not to exceed seventy-five (75) calendar days from the date of submission of request for the furlough. Once the furlough request is submitted to METROMetro, the Employee Operator may not withdraw the request. Upon separation from METROMetro, access to the EmployeeOperator’s PERS contribution contribution, will be regulated by State Law. B. The granting of an indefinite furlough shall not exempt an Employee Operator from discipline or dischargedischarge during the remaining days that the Operator works before the furlough commences. If suspension is the indicated disciplinary action and the amount of time prior to the beginning date of furlough is insufficient to serve the suspension period, then the Operator shall be required to pay a penalty fee equal to eight (8) hours of pay per suspension day that could not be served. C. The duration of the furlough will be at least six (6) months, but may continue for an indefinite period. ▇▇▇▇▇ Metro will consider return to work requests within the initial six (6) months if unusual circumstances exist. An Employee Operator who wishes to resume service must mail a letter of intent to return by certified mail to METROMetro’s Human Resources Department. The letter will include the date on which the Employee Operator will first be available for reemployment and an address and phone number where the Employee Operator may be reached. The date an Employee Operator provides as first becoming available for service shall not be more than twenty-four (24) months from the date the Employee Operator began the furlough. An Employee Operator failing to present the letter of intent to METRO Metro and the Union within this twenty-four (24) month period shall be considered to have resigned effective the date the furlough began. An exception to this twenty-four (24) month deadline will be made in the case of an Employee Operator on furlough status due to an Industrial Injury, for which the time limit shall be sixtysixty (60) months. D. An Operator having submitted a letter of intent to return shall be first recalled to service before any new hires, subject to the needs of service of Metro. Once an Operator has given the letter of intent to return to service, the Operator must accept the first offer of return or she will be considered to have resigned. Metro shall notify the Operator by certified mail with a copy to the Union. If the Operator is unavailable to return to work on the date specified in Metro’s notice of recall, the Operator must notify Metro within five (5) calendar days of the date the recall notice was received, whereupon Metro may arrange with the Operator a return date that is within seven (7) calendar days of the originally specified return date. Metro shall honor the letters of intent to return in the order of the dates requested for return.

Furlough. An In order to provide a more reasonable work schedule for senior employees when hours are shortened due to lack of orders, the Plant Operations Manager will have the responsibility of placing on furlough those employees who are not needed to fill the daily production schedule. Furlough will be offered first on a voluntary basis according to seniority with the affected classification. If there are not enough volunteers, then the COMPANY will furlough the most junior employees(s) in the affected classification. The furloughed employees will be placed on surplus labor so as to make them eligible for unemployment benefits during such furlough period, if otherwise eligible. Employee who desires to leave their position retains health and dental insurance will be maintained in accordance with Article XIV for the opportunity entire length of furlough. It is understood that a furlough may be for any length of time provided such does not exceed sixty (60) days at any given time. For record keeping purposes, the President for Local #425 or his appointee will be notified of such furlough by letter signed by the involved Operations Manager. In the event, variation in customer demands requires employees to return from furlough earlier than announced, such return shall be offered first to employment as METRO personnel needs allow. A. An Employee who wishes the most senior employee in the classification being recalled; however, the senior employee will not be forced to take advantage of return if there will still be junior employees on furlough shall give written notice to METRO and within the Union not more than seventy-five (75) nor less than twenty-two (22) calendar days before the date the desired furlough is to take effect. METRO will notify the Employee of the status of their request no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after the application is receivedclassification. If the needs furlough turns into a permanent layoff, the most senior employee may choose to remain out of METRO dictatework on layoff status, METRO may delay with recall rights as granted in Section 7.04. With regard to recall from furlough, the date COMPANY liability shall be limited to notification to the UNION that such employee could not be reached by telephone or was unavailable because of release other commitments. Because state unemployment rules pay reduced benefits for partial unemployment, the plant or operations manager will project furlough time in multiples of furlough by a period not to exceed seventy-five (755) calendar days from working days. ANY FURLOUGH can be triggered at any day of the date of submission of request for the furloughweek. Once the furlough request is submitted to METROFor example, if a holiday falls on Tuesday, the Employee may not withdraw the request. Upon separation from METRO, access COMPANY will declare furlough to the Employee’s PERS contribution will be regulated by State Lawbegin Wednesday and continue through for a continuous minimum of five (5) working days. B. The granting of an indefinite Should a planned furlough shall not exempt an Employee from discipline or discharge. C. The duration affect a single employee a third time, the COMPANY and the UNION will meet to discuss the necessity prior to invoking furlough of the furlough will be at least six (6) months, but may continue for an indefinite period. ▇▇▇▇▇ will consider return to work requests within the initial six (6) months if unusual circumstances exist. An Employee who wishes to resume service must mail a letter of intent to return by certified mail to METRO’s Human Resources Department. The letter will include the date on which the Employee will first be available for reemployment and an address and phone number where the Employee may be reached. The date an Employee provides as first becoming available for service shall not be more than twenty-four (24) months from the date the Employee began the furlough. An Employee failing to present the letter of intent to METRO and the Union within this twenty-four (24) month period shall be considered to have resigned effective the date the furlough began. An exception to this twenty-four (24) month deadline will be made in the case of an Employee on furlough status due to an Industrial Injury, for which the time limit shall be sixtyaffected employee.

Furlough. An Employee who desires to leave their her position retains the opportunity to return to employment as METRO personnel needs allow. A. An ▇. ▇▇ Employee who wishes to take advantage of furlough shall give written notice to METRO and the Union not more than seventy-five (75) nor less than twenty-two (22) calendar days before the date the desired furlough is to take effect. METRO will notify the Employee of the status of their her request no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after the application is received. If the needs of METRO dictate, METRO may delay the date of release of furlough by a period not to exceed seventy-five (75) calendar days from the date of submission of request for the furlough. Once the furlough request is submitted to METRO, the Employee may not withdraw the request. Upon separation from METRO, access to the Employee’s Employee‘s PERS contribution will be regulated by State Law. B. The granting of an indefinite furlough shall not exempt an Employee from discipline or dischargedischarge during the remaining days that the Employee works before the furlough commences. If suspension is the indicated disciplinary action and the amount of time prior to the beginning date of furlough is insufficient to serve the suspension period, then the Employee shall be required to pay a penalty fee equal to eight (8) hours of pay per suspension day that could not be served. C. The duration of the furlough will be at least six (6) months, but may continue for an indefinite period. ▇▇▇▇▇ will consider return to work requests within the initial six (6) months if unusual circumstances exist. An Employee who wishes to resume service must mail a letter of intent to return by certified mail to METRO’s METRO‘s Human Resources Department. The letter will include the date on which the Employee will first be available for reemployment and an address and phone number where the Employee may be reached. The date an Employee provides as first becoming available for service shall not be more than twenty-four (24) months from the date the Employee began the furlough. An Employee failing to present the letter of intent to METRO and the Union within this twenty-four (24) month period shall be considered to have resigned effective the date the furlough began. An exception to this twenty-four (24) month deadline will be made in the case of an Employee on furlough status due to an Industrial Injury, for which the time limit shall be sixtysixty (60) months. ▇. ▇▇ Employee having submitted a letter of intent to return shall be first recalled to service before any new hires, subject to the needs of service of METRO. Once an Employee has given the letter of intent to return to service, the Employee must accept the first offer of return or she will be considered to have resigned. METRO shall notify the Employee by certified mail with a copy to the Union. If the Employee is unavailable to return to work on the date specified in METRO‘s notice of recall, the Employee must notify METRO within five (5) calendar days of the date the recall notice was received, whereupon METRO may arrange with the Employee a return date that is within seven (7) calendar days of the originally specified return date. METRO shall honor the letters of intent to return in the order of the dates requested for return.