{"id":248,"date":"2014-07-14T23:41:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T23:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2014-07-14T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T23:41:06","slug":"2-13-5seniority","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/2-13-5seniority\/","title":{"rendered":"2.13.5\tSeniority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tJackson State University values the service of our employees by recognizing seniority.&nbsp; All staff employees begin to accumulate seniority from the first day of employment in a full-time regular appointment, and it shall be determined by the aggregate of all time served as a staff employee at the University.&nbsp; An employee&#039;s seniority will not be lost because of absence due to authorized leaves of absence.&nbsp; Seniority begins to apply after a staff employee has successfully served his or her six-month probationary period.&nbsp; The amount of seniority that an employee has attained will be considered as a factor in the event of a layoff under the Reduction In Force Policy, which is set forth under policy 2.13.4, as well as in the rehiring of employees after a layoff, provided that such employees who are applying for rehire had at least a rating of &lsquo;&lsquo;good&rsquo;&rsquo; on his or her most recent employment evaluation with Jackson State University.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tTo determine eligibility for rehire, the former employee must file an employment application with the Division of Human Resources.&nbsp; Seniority shall cease upon:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px\">\n\t\tVoluntary resignation\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px\">\n\t\tJustifiable discharge (other than layoff)\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px\">\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Refusal of an offer of re-employment within a period of six (6) months from the effective date of discharge.<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University values the service of our employees by recognizing seniority.&nbsp; All staff employees begin to accumulate seniority from the first day of employment in a full-time regular appointment, and it shall be determined by the aggregate of all time served as a staff employee at the University.&nbsp; An employee&#039;s seniority will not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}