It goes by your date of hire. If you don't know they exact date, it should be listed in expressHR. If youare full time, any full and part time people that come in after you you have senority over. If you are part time, any part time people that come in after you, you have senority over. If you look at your schedule, it should have you listed by your senority.
Under my contract if you are part time your date of hire is your seniority date. If more than one person is hired on the same date then the person whose last four digits of their social security is the lowest has the most seniority. If you are full time your seniority date is the date in which you begin your progression to become full time. If more than one person has the same full time seniority date then the person who was hired earlier has the most seniority. Once again, if they were hired on the same date then it goes back to whoever has the lowest social security number.
If you transfer to another your seniority date remains the same. If people had to start over when they transfered to another store nobody would ever transfer.
hmmm well i thanks everybody for your responses. but i do not think we have hit the true answer. i will ask today at work and let you al know
Are you part time?
Yes: Your seniority date is the date you were hired
No, I'm full time: Your seniority date is the date you started your 12 week cycle to become full time.
Part time seniority and full time seniority are usually kept separate. When it comes to things like scheduling, full time people have seniority over part time people. Vacations, however, are based on hire date.
alot of people are hired on as part time. maybe after 3 or 4 weeks or longer them say "ok you're working out - lets make you full time". then your seniority date is created. it is 1 week for every 2 weeks you were part time added on to your hire date,
so i was hired 10/27/08 but my seniority date is 11/5/08. there is a 2 week difference (give or take). that means i worked PART TIME for a month before i was full time.
so there you go.... maybe some people are hired in full time. then they would have a hire date the same as their seniority date. if you work 10 years full time then decide to go part time for a couple months then all the sudden decide to go back to full time--> you lose 1/2 of your seniority (so now you have 5 years)
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alot of people are hired on as part time. maybe after 3 or 4 weeks or longer them say "ok you're working out - lets make you full time". then your seniority date is created. it is 1 week for every 2 weeks you were part time added on to your hire date,
Remind me not to go to work in your division. Whoever came up with that way of calculating seniority is an idiot. I'm surprised they don't add a stupid clause like, "Unless you were hired on a Monday and the moon was waning."
Contrary to public opinion noted herein, the date one uses to determine their particular seniority must come from their union officials. Keep in mind that there are many types of seniority, as well. If it's for layoff purposes, then its mostly about ones' date of hire, but not always, for example!
