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Seasonal employees shall be recalled in the order of Classification Seniority (State Seniority for
Unit 6) to the seniority unit, employment condition, and principal place of employment from which
they were laid off, unless waived by mutual agreement between the employee and the Appointing
Authority.
Notice of Seasonal Layoff and Recall. Article 15, Section 4B and 4E of the Master Agreement
shall be modified as follows:
Employees may choose to receive notice of seasonal layoff and recall by electronic message with
written notice to the Appointing Authority. It shall be the employee’s responsibility to keep the
Appointing Authority informed of the employee’s current address.
Article 3
Temporary Employment
The provisions of the Master Agreement Article 15, Section 5 shall be supplemented and/or
modified as follows:
A position to be filled by a temporary or emergency appointment, regardless of the source of the
funding, shall be offered in the following order:
1. Seasonal employees who have received a seasonal layoff notice and completed their season
or who have completed a temporary project may bump any employee with less State Seniority
from a temporary appointment which has an anticipated duration of at least thirty (30) calendar
days from that employee's scheduled layoff date in the same discipline and principal place of
employment for which the bumping employee has the ability and capacity to perform the work,
as determined by the Appointing Authority;
2. Employees who are permanently laid off and not employed by the State if the position is in the
same class, seniority unit, and geographic area from which they were laid off in order of
Classification Seniority;
3. Employees who are permanently laid off and not employed by the State if the position is in the
same seniority unit and geographic area from which they were laid off and the employee is
determined to be qualified for the appointment by the Appointing Authority in the order of State
Seniority;
4. Seasonal employees in seasonal layoff status who have the ability and capacity, as determined
by the Appointing Authority, to perform the work, in their principal place of employment and
within their discipline on the basis of State Seniority;
5. Seasonal employees in seasonal layoff status who have the ability and capacity, as determined
by the Appointing Authority, to perform the work within the discipline and within fifty (50) miles
of the principal place of employment on the basis of State Seniority. The employee may waive
the temporary assignment. Where the time requirements of the temporary assignment are of
an emergency nature and do not allow the selection of the employee in the above manner, the
Appointing Authority is not required to select the employee.
6. Seasonal employees in seasonal layoff status shall be permitted to make known their
availability for temporary positions across disciplines at different Department of Natural
Resources locations within fifty (50) miles of their principal place of employment. Employees
shall notify in writing each office for which they are available for this temporary work. Such
employees shall be considered for these positions in order of State Seniority provided the
senior employee is qualified to perform the duties of the position, except where the temporary
assignment is of an emergency nature.
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