Farms, on the other hand, are allotted rights to surface water based on a complex seniority system.
The agreements made decades ago require private bus companies to hire drivers based on an industrywide seniority list.
The choices are based on a mix of seniority and popularity, and some positions are still up for grabs.
Buffer, a social media start-up, compensates employees based on a formula that takes seniority, experience and location into account, and it makes all its salaries public.
Appointments to these key positions came to be based on a combination of merit and seniority, thus establishing a type of bureaucracy that was to become traditional in Chinese government.
Teachers unions continue to cling to contracts that allow teachers to transfer from school to school based on seniority; a better approach would be to assign them where they are most needed.
Instead of bidding for shifts based on seniority, an opportunity that has long existed for some other workers, like emergency medical technicians and corrections officers, the auctions award shifts to employees who ask the lowest prices for their work.
1. Retention based merely on a seniority list casts aside some of our most promising teachers.
While the partners wanted to be acknowledged by their associates, a kind of hierarchy often developed, especially with new partners, based on seniority or a higher level of medical activity.
Assignment is based on seniority, and most senior officers select the day shift.
