Sentence examples for seniority rule from inspiring English sources

A senior official in the Cuomo administration said that if the seniority rule were changed, its replacement would have to be "fair, rational criteria that will be the new rules of the road if layoffs are necessary".

And the time for lobbying in Albany to repeal the seniority rule is long past.

Andrew M. Cuomo change the teacher seniority rule in the event of layoffs cleverly overlooks an important element of his argument.

Mr. Cuomo has signaled his openness to overhauling the seniority rule, known as "last in, first out" — but not within the budget.

• To the Editor: Re "Bloomberg Presses Cuomo on Teacher Seniority Rule" (news article, Jan . 31: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's desire to have Gov.

At the time, Mr. Bloomberg said the cuts would leave the city with no option but to lay off thousands of teachers, making the push to repeal the seniority rule all the more urgent for officials in his administration.

So much is governed by the union contract's seniority rules, which allows senior teachers to pick the school where they will work, the grade and even the specific class they will teach.

"Now that we're seniors, we need them more than ever". Because of budget cuts and seniority rules, Fremont had to fill the vast majority of vacancies with teachers displaced from other district schools.

Younger employees with fresher skills are the first to go because of seniority rules.

Because of the state's seniority rules, the most junior teachers would go first.

Unlike Specter, Graham has little apparent reverence for the Senate's recondite procedures and seniority rules.