What's up people, I was sitting and reading throught the contract book while on lunch. I noticed that it said vacation bidding and route bidding where determined by seniority.
Seniority as is says is measured by continuous length of service with the company, and prevails at all times.
Does this mean that vacations and route bidding should be measured by TOTAL senority, and not just full time senority?
Total seniority is your seniority date, the day of transfer. You get credit equal to your part time years only for vacation weeks eligible and retirement purposes. Nothing else. Well, except for when laying off 22.3 employees. Then total company seniority comes into play.
Central Region Supplement
Article 3 Seniority
Section 10-Part-time Employees Transferring To
Full-time Jobs Other Than Hub and Preload
After the completion of the job selection procedure outlined in Section
8 of this Article, the resulting opening will be filled as follows:
Part-time employees with six (6) or more month’s seniority may bid
on a full-time opening in their building in all months except
November and December, providing they meet the same requirements
as applicants for that full-time job. The six (6) months or
more may be reduced upon mutual agreement. The permanent new
job or permanent vacancy resulting from the procedure outlined
above will be posted for a period of five (5) working days. The job
will be awarded to the senior bidding employee.
The employee awarded the job must satisfactorily complete a thirty
(30) working day training period. An employee who disqualifies
himself/herself on his/her first (1st) attempt shall not be allowed to
bid again for one (1) year. An employee who fails to qualify, or disqualifies
themselves on his/her second (2nd) attempt, shall not be allowed
to bid again for three (3) years. The above procedure will be applied
on an alternating six-for-one basis, (e. g., for every seven (7) jobs,
six (6) will be filled as outlined above and the other from applicants
from other sources).
Part-time employees successfully transferring to full-time jobs will
be considered as newly hired full-time employees and will be added
to the appropriate seniority list. Their seniority date will be the day
of the transfer.
Part-time employees entering into a full-time combination job must
remain in that job for a period of nine (9) months before being eligible
to bid again to another full-time combination job.
For vacation and retirement purposes, the employee shall receive
additional seniority credit equal to all time worked as a part-time
employee.