The District Deployment Process Clause Samples

The District Deployment Process. Terms of Reference: (a) The objective is to deploy hours on the basis of District Seniority, to create as many full-time, or almost full-time, positions as operationally achievable. As in the normal hiring process, employees must possess the qualifications listed in the job description. (i) Each school/department administrator/exempt staff shall determine staffing needs for the next school year by May 15. If this is not possible due to delays in Board budget approval, the parties will discuss how to deal with the delay. (ii) For allocating regular hours at schools/departments, employees can be allocated hours in job classifications that are equal to or lower than the classification they currently hold, provided these classifications are within the same job stream. Human Resource Services will confirm the employee meets the qualifications for the added classifications prior to this assignment. Current job streams are: Clerical, Technical and Educational Assistant. It has been agreed that School Meals Assistant, Student Supervisor, School Assistant and Office Assistant hours can be added to any classification regardless of job stream. For allocating temporary hours at schools/department employees can only be assigned temporary hours in classifications that are equal to or lower than the classification they currently hold, provided these classifications are within the same job stream and provided they can be added to a regular assignment. Temporary hours are not part of the obligation as referenced in Article 17.13 (iv). (iii) On the basis of position and seniority, school/department will allocate hours to current regular employees. As school/department deploy their allocations, employees who do not have hours assigned to them or have only reduced hours available to them within the school/department are declared "excess to needs". An employee can be declared excess to needs only where a bona-fide and continuing reduction of hours occurs. These employees shall be the least senior employees, based on operational requirements and the necessary qualifications. No senior employee can volunteer to be declared excess in lieu of a junior employee. An employee whose student or program will be moving to a new school may be given the option of moving providing a vacancy exists at the receiving school. (iv) The obligation of the school/department is to offer positions and hours, based on seniority, to an equal number of hours the employee works in the current school year...