Section 4. Layoff 

Layoff is the termination of services of a Resident Faculty member before the expiration of her/his current Letter of 

Appointment without prejudice as to performance. Employees who are laid off shall have preference in re-hiring. 

Reasons for layoff are limited to, Financial Exigency and/or Curricular or Program/Department Changes. Decisions 

regarding layoff will be at the discretion of the Dean of Academic Affairs in consultation with the Union.

SFAI Agreement for the Faculty Bargaining Unit 2005-2010 

Section 5. Financial Exigency 

Financial exigency is the critical and urgent need for the Institute to reorder it expenditures in such a way as to retain 

solvency. 

Section 6. Curricular or Program/Department Changes 

A Resident Faculty member may be laid off due to a major change, including discontinuation, in the curriculum or an 

academic program. In any such case, six (6) months notice shall be provided to the affected employee. If during the 

six (6) month period the employee finds alternative employment, then the balance of notice time remaining will 

convert to severance pay at the employee's current rate of pay. Every effort will be made to reassign said employee to 

another teaching position within the Institute. If placement in another position would be facilitated by a reasonable 

period of training, financial and other support for such training will be proffered. 

Section 8. Layoff Procedures during Financial Exigency 

If the Board of Trustees determines that a financial emergency exists, the President of the Institute will meet with the 

Faculty Senate to explain the financial exigency. Prior to layoffs, the Institute will make every effort to reassign 

affected Resident Faculty members to other teaching positions within the Institute. In the event of layoffs due to 

financial exigency, six (6) months notice shall be provided to the affected employee. If during the six (6) month 

period the employee finds alternative employment, then the balance of notice time remaining will convert to 

severance pay at the employee's current rate of pay. 

The following guidelines for layoff due to financial exigency will be observed in the following order. 

1. A freeze will be placed on the hiring of any new faculty. 

2. Voluntary programs will be implemented, such as voluntary reduced salary and/or workloads, voluntary phased 

retirement or the placement of affected resident faculty into suitable and available non-teaching positions within the 

Institute. Voluntary reductions may include continuation of full benefits as determined by the Dean of Academic 

Affairs. 

3. Visiting faculty will be laid off unless their departure would represent a serious and unresolvable distortion of the 

academic curriculum. 

4. Resident faculty will be considered for layoff on the basis of lower seniority (i.e., the most recently hired) unless 

such consideration represents a serious and unresolvable distortion of the academic curriculum. A "serious and 

unresolvable distortion of the academic curriculum" in understood to mean any class required for a major, classes 

required for graduation, part of a required sequence of courses. 

Any member of the Resident Faculty who has been laid off will have first priority for rehiring on the basis of 

seniority and appropriate qualifications for two years after the date of the layoff. 

Pasted from source:www.aaup-ca.org/2005-2010SFAIMarkedupCBA.pdf