2020-19 - 2020-22 collective bargaining agreement, Dispatchers

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20.04 Employees found to be using the personal leave for purposes other than for the reasons granted shall be subject to discipline up to and including termination. 20.05 An employee may not take an extended personal leave in order to work another job. ARTICLE 21 LAYOFFS 21.01 Whenever it is necessary for the City to reduce its forces, Dispatcher shall be laid off in the following order: A. Employees who have not completed their probationary period. B. Employees who have completed their probationary period. C. In the event of a lay-off, all affected employees shall be given two (2) weeks advance notice of said lay-off. 21.02 All employees shall be laid off on the basis of seniority within the categories enumerated above. The City will layoff the employee(s) who has the least amount of seniority. If the seniority of two (2) or more employees is equal, the employees shall be laid off alphabetically, "Z" to "A". 21.03 In the event of a layoff, the City will advise the Union of the need for the layoff of bargaining unit employees. The City will layoff all employees in the order noted above, before it lays off any regular employees. Therefore, if it is necessary to layoff regular employees as defined above, it shall meet with the Union to review the seniority status of those scheduled for layoff. In the event the City needs to fill the vacated positions, it shall do so on a temporary basis by offering this temporary work first to the bargaining unit employees in the affected areas. The City shall post such temporary vacancies pursuant to the provisions noted. Further, such vacancies will be posted at the same time that the City advises the Union of the need for layoff as defined above. 21.04 If no one bids on the vacancies, the City may fill such vacancies in order of inverse seniority as long as the employee is considered qualified to perform the available work. ARTICLE 22 RECALL FROM LAYOFF 22.01 Full-time employees shall be recalled in the reverse order of their layoff. An employee on layoff will be given fifteen (15) work days' notice of recall from the date on which the City sends the recall notice to the employee, by certified mail, to his or her last known address as shown on the City's records. (It is the employee's responsibility to notify the City of a change of address.) The City will maintain a list of those employees who are laid off for a period of thirty- six (36) months. During this period of thirty-six (36) months, new bargaining unit employees shall not be hired until all qualified employees on layoff status desiring to work have been recalled. 16