Probationary Employment Period.
Employees newly hired into the bargaining unit shall be considered as probationary employees for the first ninety (90) calendar days of continuous employment. The University may extend the probationary period up to one hundred eighty (180) calendar days for part-time employees. The probationary period shall not include any unpaid leave as described in Article XIV. 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 ninety (90) calendar days, or one hundred eighty (180) 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.
