Agreement - Teamsters Local 399

provision, an employee who has not worked in the classifications
covered under this Agreement within a consecutive two (2) year period
shall be deemed to have left the motion picture production industry for
gainful employment elsewhere. Provided, however, this shall not
include:
(A) Any person who was employed by the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters or any of its affiliated Local
Unions;
(B) Any person who was employed in any
capacity in the motion picture industry within such two (2) year period;
or
(C) Any person who had a work-related
disability which prevented him from performing work assigned to
craft(s) or classification(s) in which he was formerly employed.
(vi) Retirement under the Motion Picture Industry
Pension Plan or private company pension plan; provided, however, the
Producer may continue to employ any such employee who retired prior
to August 1, 1991 as though he/she had not been removed from the
Studio Seniority Roster.
(vii) Death.
(viii) Unauthorized leave of absence. An employee
hereunder shall not be granted a leave of absence for the purpose of
accepting employment with another employer in the motion picture
production industry in a job classification covered by this Agreement,
unless such action is mutually acceptable to the Producer, the employee
and the Union.
(ix) An employee on Producer’s Studio Seniority
Roster who has been suspended from work by such Producer and who
accepts work with another Producer while on suspension shall forfeit his
Studio Seniority with the Producer by whom he was suspended.
(x) Absence because of illness or injury exceeding
two (2) years, provided Union receives prior written notice before the
employee is taken off the Roster.
(2) A person shall be removed by the Producer from its
Industry Experience Roster for any of the following reasons:
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