Common use of Preferential Placement Clause in Contracts

Preferential Placement. (1) Eligibility An employee: (i) eligible for Severance Pay under Section 2, or (ii) eligible for Income Extension Aid ("IEA") resulting from being displaced and subject to layoff in the immediate chain of displacement resulting when a job is directly eliminated by a transfer or work, the discontinuation of a discrete, unreplaced product line, the introduction of a robot, or the introduction of a automated manufacturing or office machine, or (iii) who has spent three (3) months on protected service due to layoff may elect, prior to the employee's termination for plant closing or layoff per (i) and (ii) above, or after three (3) months on protected service due to layoff, and up to thirty (30) days thereafter per (iii) above (except where the laid off employee has elected to receive his/her IEA in lump sum), to be placed in a Preferential Placement status.