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Memorandum of Understanding Job Security Employee Placement February 17,2009 on Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:12 pm
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Job Security:
The provision of Appendix K of the 2007 GM-UAW National Agreement - Memorandum of Understanding Job Security (JOBS) Program, as well as any provisions of related Letters of Understanding that limit or proscribe the Corporation's right to lay off employees, are hereby suspended for the duration of this Memorandum.
Employees on Protected Status, including those on 85%, will be placed on layoff effective Monday, February 2, 2009
Employee Placement:
Employhees on layoff shall be placed into available jobs in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding - Appendix A of the 2007 GM-UAW National AGreement with the modification concerning volunteers from plants without excess.
After exhausting the Placement Process per Appendis A, job offers will be made as follows:
In an opening still exists and employees ramain of layoff in another geographic region, the National Parties will discuss and formulate a plan to fill openings.
In the event that there is a layoff of traditional employees in an Area Hire where Entry Level employees are employed, the tradiional employees will be placed into entry Level Jobs, thus bumping Entry Level employees to layoff.
If an employee fails to respond to notification of a job offer or fails to elect one of the options listed above, the employee shall be terminated and the employee's recall rights shall cease.
The provision of Appendix K of the 2007 GM-UAW National Agreement - Memorandum of Understanding Job Security (JOBS) Program, as well as any provisions of related Letters of Understanding that limit or proscribe the Corporation's right to lay off employees, are hereby suspended for the duration of this Memorandum.
Employees on Protected Status, including those on 85%, will be placed on layoff effective Monday, February 2, 2009
Employee Placement:
Employhees on layoff shall be placed into available jobs in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding - Appendix A of the 2007 GM-UAW National AGreement with the modification concerning volunteers from plants without excess.
After exhausting the Placement Process per Appendis A, job offers will be made as follows:
- The lowest seniority laid off traditional production employee from a closed plant within a geographic region (see Attached) will be made an Extended Area Hire job offer in iinverse seniority order. This employee must select one of the following:
- Accept the job offer and report to work.
- Decline the job offer and be placed on Formal Leave of Absence without Corporate paid benefits with a recall right to his/her home plant.
- The lowest seniority laid off traditional production employee from the balance of plants within the geographic region (see Attached) will be made an Extended Area Hire job offer in inverse seniority order. This employee must select one of the following:
- Accept the job offer and report to work.
- Decline the job offer and be placed on Formal Leave of Absence without Corporate paid benefits with a recall right to his/her home plant.
- Laid off skilled trades employees within the Area Hire will be made job offers in inverse seniority order
- Skilled trades employees may be placed into production jobs regardless of whether or not they have previously held production jobs with GM.
- Skilled trades employees placed into produciton jobs shall be paid the applicable wage rate for the production classification into which they are placed.
- Skilled trades employees placed into production jobs shall retain their rights to return to skilled trades jobs for which they are qualified by previously held classifications.
In an opening still exists and employees ramain of layoff in another geographic region, the National Parties will discuss and formulate a plan to fill openings.
In the event that there is a layoff of traditional employees in an Area Hire where Entry Level employees are employed, the tradiional employees will be placed into entry Level Jobs, thus bumping Entry Level employees to layoff.
If an employee fails to respond to notification of a job offer or fails to elect one of the options listed above, the employee shall be terminated and the employee's recall rights shall cease.
