Common use of SENIORITY (Continued) Clause in Contracts

SENIORITY (Continued). 5.4 In cases where there are promotional series, such as Custodian Engineer I, II, III, etc., when the number of employees in the higher titles is to be reduced, employees who have held lower titles in the bargaining unit will be offered reductions to the highest title to which class seniority would keep them from being laid off, before layoffs are made by any class title in any department. 5.5 Recall from layoff shall be in inverse order of layoff, except that recall rights shall expire after two (2) years of layoff. 5.6 It is understood that such employees will pick up their former seniority date in any class of positions that they previously held.