Arun Ramanathan, a former senior administrator in San Diego, said seniority-based layoff policies created more turmoil than was publicly recognized.
But it will not be Clegg's formal seniority that concerns his former Tory partners.
The company can usually find jobs for them, explains Takane Miwa from the company's human-resources department, but often in a different division, sometimes part-time and always minus their former job title and seniority.
In the early 1990s, some conservative Democrats playing main roles on Capitol Hill held their positions largely by virtue of seniority, said former Representative Vic Fazio of California, who was once chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
He is a member of Educators 4 Excellence, a group of current and former teachers, mostly young, who oppose seniority-based layoffs.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie, himself a former member of the House, characterized the seniority shifts as an inevitable changing of the guard.
Multiple current and former LA Times employees with varying degrees of seniority told HuffPost that they had never heard anything about Rosen's connection to the Disney vice president.
Furthermore, stratified analyses on current versus former baggage handlers showed that the effects of seniority reported in model 3 remained significant for both groups within all anatomical regions except for the knees (figure 1).
Knickerbocker also represents Educators 4 Excellence, which calls itself an "independent voice for educators" made up of former and current public school teachers who oppose seniority-based firing.
"I think the seniority of the U.S. dignitaries, including two former Secretaries of State with whom she worked closely, I think is testament to her global stature," a spokesman said.
