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Thread: How does your agency handle seniority?

Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Kornblaster
How does your agency handle seniority? Like many places Iowa is in a budget crunch and were looking at laying off a load of LEOs. As with most union shops seniority is king here. What does your department do for the tie breakers for those who have the same hire date or sworn date? Ours uses the last 4 of your SSN and the high numbers are SOL which seems pretty random and ridiculous. A few of us ...
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Dr. Peebody replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
nysp goes by your entrance exam score..... which also seems arbitrary when you're looking at 2 guys w/ 20 yrs on picking vacay based on a test they took 24yrs earlier...at least i thought so until i read YOUR post....going by ssn really is BS.

RDEP replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
If they have the same hire date (which is RARE in my agency since there are seldom more than one person hired at a time) then the class rank would prevail. I don't think this has ever happened though.

mikeymedic replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
We don't have a union and we are staffed at the bare minimum (2).

CruiserClass replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Seniority ties are fairly common for us because we have our own academy and people are hired in batches. Shift bid is the only time it routinely comes up, and ties are broken by substracting any suspension days first and then sick days taken if there's still a tie.

DACP replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
a coin toss for us.

District B 13 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Last hired, first fired for us.

ateamer replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Seniority has two purposes. One is for shift pick. Patrol picks shifts by seniority twice a year. There is a one-year limit on a shift, regardless of seniority. The other purpose, which only comes up rarely, is when two deputies put in for the same vacation days, and submit the request on the same day. If staffing won't allow for two people to be off, the senior deputy gets the nod. Being...

Dinosaur32 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Can go as far back as date of application for test.

Iowa #1603 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Quote: Originally Posted by Kornblaster How does your agency handle seniority? Like many places Iowa is in a budget crunch and were looking at laying off a load of LEOs. As with most union shops seniority is king here. What does your department do for the tie breakers for those who have the same hire date or sworn date? Ours uses the ...

Jester69 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
As far as I know we dont go by date of hire here. Everyone is Assigned a D number, the Sheriff right now is like D0100 something where as the newest people coming outta these classes are like D1900 or really REALLY close. That is Detention and Patrol. Reserves get RD numbers and Cadets get CD numbers. We run our own academy so like some other people there are batches, the way D numbers go is...

 

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Published (2009-10-27 03:14:00)
As far as I know we dont go by date of hire here. Everyone is Assigned a D number, the Sheriff right now is like D0100 something where as the newest people coming outta these classes are like D1900 or really REALLY close. That is Detention and Patrol. Reserves get RD numbers and Cadets get CD numbers. We run our own academy so like some other people there are batches, the way D numbers go is by Date of Hire, and if that falls the same I...
ateamer
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Published (2009-10-30 15:09:00)
If I was running the show, patrol beat picks would be by seniority and seniority would be 50% of the factor in considering people for specialized assignments. It would be 25-50% of the deciding factor in promotions. Experience deserves recognition.
RDEP
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Published (2009-10-26 14:23:00)
If they have the same hire date (which is RARE in my agency since there are seldom more than one person hired at a time) then the class rank would prevail. I don't think this has ever happened though.
just joe
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Published (2009-10-27 08:20:00)
We don't have mass swear-ins, just one officer at a time. If we swore in multiple people on the same day, the first person who was sworn in would have seniority. Seniority is used for shift bids, overtime and some vacation requests.
District B 13
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Published (2009-10-26 18:01:00)
Last hired, first fired for us.
Dinosaur32
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Published (2009-10-26 19:20:00)
Can go as far back as date of application for test.
mikeymedic
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Published (2009-10-26 14:33:00)
We don't have a union and we are staffed at the bare minimum (2).
CruiserClass
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Published (2009-10-26 14:37:00)
Seniority ties are fairly common for us because we have our own academy and people are hired in batches. Shift bid is the only time it routinely comes up, and ties are broken by substracting any suspension days first and then sick days taken if there's still a tie.
DACP
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Published (2009-10-26 17:16:00)
a coin toss for us.
Dr. Peebody
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Published (2009-10-26 14:16:00)
nysp goes by your entrance exam score..... which also seems arbitrary when you're looking at 2 guys w/ 20 yrs on picking vacay based on a test they took 24yrs earlier...at least i thought so until i read YOUR post....going by ssn really is BS.

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