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B. In lieu of layoff, an employee may elect to work in a lower classification, <br />in which he or she has served, providing that classification is within the <br />same job family/career ladder. In that event, the employee's length of <br />service in the next lower classification will be added to his or her length of <br />service in the affected classification, and said combined seniority shall be <br />used to bump down into the next lower classification. This method of <br />combining seniority shall be applied to subsequent lower classifications. <br />C. The reemployment list shall be valid for one year from the date of its <br />establishment. Reemployment shall be in reverse order of layoffs. The <br />Joint Labor Management Committee will determine Job Family/Career <br />Ladder. <br />22.6 A bargaining unit employee who is laid off from full time City employment <br />pursuant to this Article, may be granted a temporary appointment to a vacant <br />position in any classification for which there is no eligible list and for which said <br />employee meets the minimum qualifications established for the classification and <br />possesses the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities to satisfactorily perform the <br />work of the classification. Such temporary appointment will be terminated upon <br />the establishment of a new eligible list for the classification or one year following <br />the initial day of such temporary appointment, whichever occurs first. <br />22.7 <br />The City agrees if it wishes to layoff employees in the Union, it cannot notify the <br />Union of its desire to do so for any employees in the Union prior to February 1, <br />2012. The City also agrees that through that negotiations process, no Union <br />member may be laid off prior to March 31, 2012. <br />The City also agrees that through the end of this agreement June 30, 2013, it will <br />meet and confer with the Union over the decision to issue layoff notices not just <br />over the impact of the decision. <br />22.8 Contracting Out <br />Effective July 1, 2013, prior to bringing any requests for proposal (RFP) to the <br />City Council which would result in the contracting out of bargaining unit work, <br />and prior to any such requests being issued seeking such proposals, the parties <br />agree to the following: <br />1) The City will inform SEiU in writing of its intent to submit such request to the <br />City Council for approval. <br />2) The City will inform SEIU in the same writing of its right to request to meet to <br />discuss the proposed RFP prior to bringing it to the City Council or seeking such <br />8