Common use of Transfer Outside the Unit Clause in Contracts

Transfer Outside the Unit. Any employee in the bargaining unit who had been transferred to, promoted heretofore, or hereafter, from the bargaining unit to a position outside of the bargaining unit, shall have his seniority frozen and he shall not accrue further seniority until he returns to the bargaining unit. If he is subsequently relieved of such position because of lack of work or inability to perform the work, or at his own request, the Board must give the employee the opportunity to return to the bargaining unit. After returning to the bargaining unit he shall have the benefit of all seniority he had or may accrue in the bargaining unit.