Chicago Park Disrict Human Resources Policy and Procedures ...

"bump" such employees who appear lower than they do on the seniority and
reemployment list for that other grade. In such case, the District, after first
complying with sections a. and b. of this Section, shall conduct any necessary
additional layoffs in compliance with the provisions of Section 4 of this Rule in order
to make room for the employees who exercised their bumping rights.
d. As provided in Rule VI, Section 3 f., a laid-off person who is offered another position
pursuant to the provisions of this Section and who declines it shall be removed from
the seniority and reemployment list for the grade in which he declined the offer of a
position.
e. If an employee laid off from a grade appears on the seniority and reemployment list
in more than one other grade, he or she shall be offered the right to bump back only
into the highest-paid grade in which he or she appears on such list and on which he or
she has sufficient seniority so as to be entitled to bump another employee in that
grade. If the employee refuses to exercise that bumping right, he or she shall be laid
off and his or her name shall be eliminated from the seniority and reemployment list
for the grade in which he or she declined to exercise the bumping right. The
employee's name in such case shall remain on all other seniority and reemployment
lists on which it appears and the employee shall retain any recall rights provided by
these Rules to positions in such other grades that are filled subsequent to the layoff.
In cases where the employee, through no fault of his or her own, would be prejudiced
by having to accept a position in the grade into which he or she is entitled to bump
under this section (e), the Director of Human Resources, on written request of the
employee, may in his or her discretion allow the employee to bump into another
grade on whose seniority and reemployment list the employee also appears.
RULE VIII: TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL
With the approval of the Director of Human Resources, an employee may be
transferred for reasons promoting the efficiency of the service from one position to
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