And believe that performance should matter more
than seniority when teachers are laid off,» (Kerhner 2015).
Not exact matches
Only a few women actually want to go back to work
when their baby is less
than six months of age if they are receiving something close to the same pay to be at home with the baby and ensured of returning to the same or an equivalent job without losing
seniority.
That was never more apparent
than about a week ago
when Johnson (R - West Babylon) missed a vote on state Sen. John Flanagan's controversial bill on teacher
seniority.
It also shows that student achievement improves
when principals are allowed to hire school staff according to quality and fit, rather
than restricted by
seniority.
In effect, tenure and
seniority work together to give employers the flexibility to lay people off
when economic circumstances require it, but in a way that protects teachers from being arbitrarily targeted, or targeted because they were paid more
than more junior faculty.
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.
We had a situation relatively recently
when one of our employees — who had been perfectly content before — learned that he was paid slightly less
than another employee at his same position with less
seniority.