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and Rules or under secondary redeployment shall be subject to a

probationary period in accordance with the Rules for the Classified Service.

d. Employees who fail probation shall be eligible for layoff and preferred
list rights in their original titles. Additionally, such employees who fail

probation shall have an opportunity to select either the transition benefit of
an Educational Stipend as set forth in Appendix VIII(B), or the Severance

Option as provided for in Appendix VIII(C). The value of the salary earned
during the redeployed employee’s probation (or in connection with 8(c)

above) shall be subtracted from the value of the transition benefit, VIII(B)
or VIII(C), chosen by the employee.

(a) Definitions
1. Seniority shall be determined by Section 80 of the Civil Service Law

for competitive class employees and by Article 20.1 of the Agreement for
non-competitive and labor class employees.

2. In the event that two or more employees have the same seniority date,
the employee with the earliest seniority date in an affected title shall be

deemed to have the greater seniority. Further tie breaking procedures shall
be developed by the Committee and applied consistently.

(2) Role of the Employment Security Committee
The Committee shall meet at least bimonthly to discuss open issues related

to the redeployment process. Such issues shall include, but not be limited
to: comparability determinations; vacancy availability; information sharing

in hiring and redeployment; dispute resolution; Civil Service layoff
procedures; hardship claims from individual employees in the redeployment

process. The Committee shall also explore the viability of expanding the

redeployment concept to other reduction in force situations.
(3) Grievability and Dispute Resolution
a. The application of terms of the Appendix shall be grievable only up to

Step III of the provisions of Article 34 (Grievance and Arbitration

Procedure).
b. Disputes raised to the Step III level will be reviewed by the Employment

Security Committee for attempted resolution. If a decision must eventually
be rendered and no resolution is agreed to, the decision shall be issued

pursuant to the procedures outlined in Article 34.1(b).

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