National Agreement 2006-2011 - NALC Branch 1100

Article 6.C.1
Employees who elect to terminate their employment
will receive a lump sum severance payment in the
amount provided by Part 435 of the Employee and
Labor Relations Manual, will receive benefit coverage
to the extent provided by such Manual, and, if eligible,
will be given the early retirement benefits provided by
Section 8336(d)(2) of Title 5, United States Code and
the regulations implementing that statute.
5. No less than 20 days prior to effecting a layoff, the
Employer will post a list of all vacancies in other seniority
units and crafts at the same or lower level which
exist within the installation and within the commuting
area of the losing installation. Employees in an affected
seniority unit may, within 10 days after the posting,
request a reassignment under this Article to a posted
vacancy. Qualified employees will be assigned to such
vacancies on the basis of seniority. If a senior non-preference
eligible employee within the seniority unit indicates
no interest in available reassignment, then such
employee becomes exposed to layoff. A preference eligible
employee within the seniority unit shall be
required to accept such a reassignment to a vacancy in
the same level at the installation, or, if none exists at the
installation, to a vacancy in the same level at an installation
within the commuting area of the losing installation.
If the reassignment is to a different craft, the employee’s
seniority in the new craft shall be established in accordance
with the applicable seniority provisions of the
new craft.
C. Layoff and Reduction in Force
1. Definition. The term “layoff’ as used herein refers to
the separation of non-protected. non-preference eligible
employees in the regular work force because of lack
of work or other legitimate, non-disciplinary reasons.
The term “reduction in force” as used herein refers to
the separation or reduction in the grade of a nonprotected
veterans’ preference eligible in the regular
work force because of lack of work or other legitimate
non-disciplinary reasons.
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