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Section 1. Definitions

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1. TRANSFER: The term transfer shall mean the shifting of an Employee from one program, division, Health and Hospitals Corporation institution, or site used by an agency to another, without any significant change in duties, responsibilities and remuneration, except the following personnel actions shall not be considered transfers:
   1. The movement within the Human Resources Administration as defined in Section 2(d) below shall not be considered a transfer.
   2. A change of physical location within a Health and Hospital Corporation institution or Central Office Cost Group does not constitute a transfer.
   3. The initial assignment of newly appointed Employees after an initial period of training.
   4. Reassignment of Employees returning from unpaid leave of more than twenty three (23) working days. Where feasible, Employees returning from such leaves shall not be assigned to a location which creates a hardship for them.
2. HARDSHIP: The term hardship shall mean an undue burden to an Employee resulting from a proposed involuntary transfer which results in:
   1. An increase in travel time to fifty five (55) minutes or more for any Employee who is a City resident;
   2. An increase in travel time to one and one quarter (1-1/4) hours or more if the Employee is not a City resident;
   3. Documented serious family, personal or medical problems.
3. TRAVEL TIME: The term travel time shall mean running time as established by the Transit Authority and/or any private carrier.
4. VOLUNTARY TRANSFER REQUEST FILE:
   1. The term voluntary transfer request file for Mayoral Agencies shall mean a file maintained by the Agency of all requests for transfers made by Employees. All voluntary transfer requests shall expire at the end of the calendar year except for those submitted in the last three (3) months of the year. These requests shall remain in effect during the following calendar year.
   2. For the Health and Hospitals Corporation only: Voluntary Transfer Request List: The term voluntary transfer request list shall mean a list maintained by Central Office and each institution or other premises used by HHC of all requests for transfer made by Employees in the Hospital Care Investigator occupational group.
      1. The original of the transfer request is to be sent to the Patient Accounts Manager of the institution to which the employee wishes to transfer. Copies are to be sent to the Personnel Director of the institution to which the Employee wishes to transfer, Central Office, and the Patient Accounts Manager and the Personnel Director of the institution where the Employee is currently working. The Transfer Request List maintained at the Central Office shall take precedence.
      2. The life of the list shall be one calendar year. All requests submitted on or after December 15th shall remain in effect for the following calendar year.
      3. If an Employee is offered an opportunity to transfer and declines such transfer, the transfer request shall be removed from the file and Central Office shall be notified of such action. All declinations shall be in writing.
5. SENIORITY:
   1. In Mayoral Agencies, the term seniority shall mean an Employee's service in title, including uninterrupted provisional service and temporary Civil Service, time spent on a preferred list and time spent in a previous title if the Employee has been "6.1.9'd" into his/her current title.
   2. For Employees in the Hospital Care Investigator occupational group the term seniority shall mean an Employee's service in title, including uninterrupted provisional and temporary service. An Employee who worked in the Department of Social Services prior to July 1, 1970, in the Caseworker occupational group whose title was changed to the equivalent title within the Hospital Care Investigator occupational group, retains as his or her date of entry into that title, his or her date of appointment to his or her former Caseworker occupational group title.
   3. For all other Employees in HHC covered by this Agreement the term seniority shall mean:
      1. The length of continuous service in the parent affiliate and continuous full time Corporation employment since July 1, 1972 or July 1, 1973, depending upon when they were transferred to the Corporation payroll.
      or
      2. The length of continuous full time Corporation and Department of Hospitals employment in the Employee's current and previous title (or titles) including all provisional and temporary service.

QUALIFICATIONS: In HRA, the term qualifications shall mean the skills or abilities required for the performance of the tasks of a position as identified in the non managerial performance evaluation Functionally Assigned Cluster of Tasks (FACT), and/or education, training or work experience identified by HRA as required for the position.

SECONDARY VACANCY: The term secondary vacancy shall mean a vacancy created by the voluntary transfer of an Employee which vacancy the Agency has decided to fill.

ARTICLE VII TRANSFER POLICY Section 2. ACS, HRA, DHS, DJJ and DOE Transfer Procedure

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