ALERT: SDEA Advises against Verifying Your Seniority Date

Posted on Nov 21, 2011

Late Friday afternoon, the District opted to give its employees a Thanksgiving send-off that seems a little lacking in holiday cheer: a request that employees verify our seniority dates (a now-annual request that is not necessarily a precursor to spring layoffs).

The District sent out an email that “requests” that all employees log on to a website to verify seniority dates. SDEA strongly discourages all members from verifying your seniority date. If a site administrator directs (as oppose to requests) that you physically sign a list or document verifying your seniority date, we advise that you write the following statement next to your initials/signature: “I cannot verify this information.”

It is the District’s responsibility to maintain accurate personnel information, not individual employees. Verifying a seniority date, which may later prove inaccurate, could jeopardize our efforts to defend members from layoff procedures.