Probationary Employment Period. Employees newly hired into the bargaining unit shall
be considered as probationary employees for the first two hundred seventy (270) calendar days of
continuous employment. The University may extend the probationary period up to five hundred forty
(540) calendar days for part-time employees. If a probationary period is interrupted by an excused
absence in excess of one week, the probationary period shall be extended by the length of the excused
absence. An employee who successfully completes the probationary period shall be entitled to full
bargaining unit seniority retroactive to the date of hire in the Bargaining Unit exclusive of such
unpaid absence.
Current University employees newly-hired into the bargaining unit who have successfully completed a
probationary period, of at least two hundred seventy (270) calendar days, or five hundred forty (540)
calendar days, as the case may be, shall not be required to serve another probationary period as
provided in this Section but shall be granted seniority status at the first day of work in the
bargaining unit.
If a probationary employee is the successful bidder for a vacant job, her/his bargaining unit
seniority date will revert to original date of hire in the bargaining unit after new probation
is successfully completed.
