Supervisors shall serve a probationary period of one-hundred eighty (180) calendar days in a new position whether such placement is due to filing a vacancy, exercising a bump, or as a result of a recall, except that a supervisor who bumps or is recalled in to the same job title within the same department shall not be required to serve a probationary period.
A probationary period can be extended, at the option of the University, up to an additional thirty (30) days. If the Supervisor fails the probationary period, his/her employment at the University shall be terminated and all layoff and recall rights shall cease.
2. Layoff for Special Categories of Supervisors: All regular full or part-time supervisors shall be covered by the layoff policy regardless of salary range, consistent with the following provisions:
a) Supervisors employed under a J-Visa shall not be eligible
for coverage.
b) Supervisors employed under a H-Visa shall have bumping
rights only into the same job classification.
c) Supervisors holding research position may only exercise a
bump into a position in his/her own Department for which
he/she is qualified and only if the project would not be seriously disrupted by the change in personnel as determined by the Associate Vice President for Academic Administration.
If a supervisor cannot bump in the Department, he/she can
bump into the immediate prior title (non-research) on the
campus.
The parties agree that the subject matter of any appeal to arbitration concerning the Associate Vice President’s decision on bumping rights shall be limited to whether the criteria as to which positions shall be exempt from bumping were applied. Should an arbitrator find that the criteria were not applied by the Associate Vice President, then his/her sole remedy shall be to refer the matter back to the Associate Vice President for reconsideration.
The University will provide a minimum of twenty-one (21) calendar days notice of layoff to any regular staff member affected.
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