Sentences with phrase «other than seniority»

While the company doesn't report any criteria other than seniority, most companies restrict sabbatical to once every five to ten years.

That was a real concern we heard from our members — that if things other than seniority count, we will have a school board that will say, «Let's save money, let's RIF the most expensive people first.»

It takes us places we haven't been in terms of crediting things other than seniority as a RIF Recall set of criteria, for example.

Senate Bill 191, which had already passed the Senate, tied evaluations to student achievement, revamped the tenure - granting process, and based teacher placement on factors other than seniority.

The surprise is that factors other than seniority do appear to influence which teachers are targeted for layoffs.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

Not exact matches

He was returning with about 160 other men and women to more seniority than 60 percent of the work force He was higher than 4200 people on the seniority list which by contract gave him The right to Switch shifts, Take better jobs, Take or refuse weekend overtime as he chose if it was not 100 percent.

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

In other words, at least 16 percent of the total Stuyvesant staff was composed of teachers who received their jobs because of seniority (or race and ethnicity) rather than professional accomplishments.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

In other words, the fact that teachers who received layoff notices were, on average, somewhat less effective than their peers is an artifact of the relationship between effectiveness and seniority.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

(California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

Or teacher quality, of course that's taboo to talk about even though LA's results showed some teachers are far better than others and some young teachers provide over double the value of teachers earning more than them by our outdated and ineffective seniority - based pay system.

But the vast majority of our members in the poll agreed that something other than just seniority should be a factor in RIF and recall.

Public schools are asked to be competitive and act more like private entities, but there is little comparison to the flexibility of the private sector in forcing public schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational considerations.

Because once such a system is in place, some teachers will be found to be better than others, which could lead to ditching an arbitrary seniority system should layoffs be a necessity.

to take any action otherwise prohibited under subsections (a), (b), (c), or (e) of this section where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business, or where differentiation is based on reasonable factors other than age; to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan such as a retirement, pension, or insurance plan, which is not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of this Act, except that no such employee benefit plan shall excuse the failure to hire any individual; or to discharge or otherwise discipline an individual for good cause

Depending on your comfort level, the idea of choosing fixed income other than government bonds / GICs / cash has some appeal (especially with historically low gov» t bond yields) but just be sure you understand the products you are buying, the inherent risks, the embedded options, the liquidity, the seniority of the debt.

However, where the difference in pay is made on the basis of seniority, merit, earnings by quantity or quality of production, or any other factor other than sex or employment status, this rule will not apply.

Exceptions apply for seniority or merit systems, systems measuring earnings by quantity or quality of production, or factors other than sex or employment status.

However, pay differentials are permitted when they are based on affirmative defenses like seniority, merit, quality of production, or any factor other than sex, but it is the employer's burden to prove when these defenses apply.

The importance of each of these will vary between seniority and job function, and the interviewer may focus in on some requirements more than others.

Some key highlights include that seniority level and perceived level of status is more important to IT professionals than those in other sectors and industries.

(3) Judges assigned to the Appeal Division before, or not later than 3 months after, the commencement of section 13 of the Family Court of Australia (Additional Jurisdiction and Exercise of Powers) Act 1988 have seniority next to the Deputy Chief Justice, and have such seniority in relation to each other as they had immediately before that commencement.