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The Culinary Union has contracts with more than 45 different employers. Most have language that is very similar, but there can be differences. Call the Union at The Culinary Union contract has a dual seniority system: House seniority in most contracts is defined as: An employee’s length of continuous service in years, months and days from the employee’s most recent date of hire into the bargaining unit as a regular, steady-extra or part-time employee by the employer. (Simply put, your hire or transfer date into a Culinary Union job at your present employer.)
Classification seniority is defined in most contracts as: An employee’s length of continuous service in years, months and days from the employee’s most recent date of hire into or transfer into his/her present job classification on a full-time basis. (Simply put, the length of time you have worked in your current classification. For example Cook, Housekeeper, Food Server or Kitchen Worker. For many workers classification and house seniority dates are the same. The reason your house and classification seniority could be different is if you have changed your job classification by transfer, promotion or go from steady-extra or part-time to full time.)
The Culinary Union has contracts with more than 45 different employers. Most have language that is very similar, but there can be differences. Call the Union at
Layoff example: A company decides there are too many Kitchen Workers for the amount of business in the Main Kitchen and eliminates one job. However, the Kitchen Worker with the least house seniority works in the Room Service Kitchen. The least senior Kitchen Worker from Room Service gets laid off despite the fact that the job eliminated was in the Main Kitchen. Layoffs also must be done by job classification. Classification example; A Pot Washer who works in the Room Service kitchen may have less house seniority than the Kitchen Worker who was laid off, but continues working because the layoff was among Kitchen Workers, not Pot Washers. The Culinary Union has contracts with more than 45 different employers. Most have language that is very similar, but there can be differences. Call the Union at Under most contracts, a worker to be laid off has 2 options.
The Culinary Union has contracts with more than 45 different employers. Most have language that is very similar, but there can be differences. Call the Union at Only a very few contracts have Room Seniority. Room Seniority means that employees that work in a particular room (usually a restaurant and generally front-of the-house workers) have their own seniority system within their room only. House and classification seniority and in some instances layoff and recall provisions apply only to workers in that particular room. (Simply put, it’s as if that room is a separate island within the property.) The Culinary Union has contracts with more than 45 different employers. Most have language that is very similar, but there can be differences. Call the Union at The Decker Decision refers to a 1997 arbitration at the now closed Stardust Hotel. The subject of the arbitration had to do with elimination of a shift. The decision set a strong precedent for how grievances should be handled in future shift eliminations. What the Arbitrator ruled, is that under certain circumstances a senior worker has the right to remain on a particular shift (defined as days, swing, graveyard) even though it was the senior workers hours of work and days off that were eliminated from the schedule.
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