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ARTICLE XXII <br />22,0 LAYOFFS <br />22.1 It is the hope of the City not to separate any employee(s) from employment because of a <br />reduction in the workforce during the term of this MOU. However, circumstances arising <br />during this MOU may require such separation(s). In that event, the City will provide <br />reasonable notice to the Union of the details of the separation(s) in order to nucet and <br />exchange information, opinions and proposals regarding the consequence(s) of the <br />separation(s) on the employee(s). This provision in not intended to be a waiver of any <br />other rights the parties may have ander this MOU, <br />22,2 The principles of seniority (length of service) shall govern layoffs as described herein, <br />except in the event that more than one employee has the same seniority date, in which case <br />performance also shall be, considered. The City's determination of performance shall not <br />be arbitrary or capricious in nature. Any dispute over the application of the principles <br />outlined in Article XXII — Layoffs shall be subject to the grievance procedure, <br />A, Classification seniority is defined as length of service in the classification, and shall <br />begin on the first date worked by the employee in that classification. Whenever a <br />position within a classification is to be eliminated, resulting in the layoff of an <br />employee, seniority shall govern the order of layoff. The employee with the lowest <br />seniority in the affected classification shall be laid off first. <br />B. In lieu of layoff, an employee may elect to work in a lower classification, in which <br />he or she has served, providing that classification is within the same job <br />family/career ladder. In that event, the employee's length of service in the next <br />lower classification will be added to his or her length of service in the affected <br />classification, and said combined seniority shall be used to bump down into the <br />next lower classification. This method of combining seniority shall be applied to <br />subsequent lower classifications. <br />C. The reemployinent list shall be valid for one year from the date of its establislunent. <br />Reemployment shall be in reverse order of layoffs. The Joint Labor Management <br />Committee will determine Job Family/Career Ladder, <br />22.3 A bargaining unit employee who is laid off from full time City employment pursuant to <br />this Article, may be granted a temporary appointment to a vacant position in any <br />classification for which there is no eligible list and for which said employee meets the <br />minimum qualifications established for the classification and possesses the requisite <br />knowledge, skills and abilities to satisfactorily perform the work of the classification. Such <br />temporary appointment will be terminated upon the establishment of a new eligible list for <br />the classification or, one year following the initial day of such temporaryappointment, <br />whichever occurs first. <br />67 <br />