Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

33010.18.2 Seniority Status

• The Officers’ (including intermittent employees) seniority shall be in accordance with MOUMemorandum Of Understanding, Bargaining Unit 6.

• Seniority for employees (including intermittent employees) in all other bargaining units shall be in accordance with their respective MOUs.

• Correctional Sergeant and Correctional Lieutenant seniority shall be based on:

  • Total service in class as a permanent employee without a break in service; or

  • Any qualifying pay periods earned in limited-term assignments, in class, if the employee changes tenure from limited-term to permanent without a break in service.

• When a limited-term assignment is terminated or when an employee is rejected on probation, i.e., Captain back to Correctional Lieutenant and/or Correctional Lieutenant back to Correctional Sergeant, the seniority accrued in the higher classification shall be calculated into the former supervisory classification to which the employee is returning.

• An employee who accepts a transfer to a non-custody classification but does not leave the Department shall receive credit for the previous seniority earned upon returning to his or her former classification.

• Ties in seniority shall be broken first by considering an employee most senior based on combining total class seniority with the total continuous state service. If a tie still exists, it shall be broken by examining the last four digits of each employee’s social security number. The employee with the highest four digits will be considered the most senior. For example, last four digits 6321 are higher than last four digits 1978.

• A break in State service (as defined by CCRCalifornia Code of Regulations, Title 2, Division 1, Section 6.4) of 12 months or more shall result in the loss of all seniority credits.