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====Balancing Seniority and Performance==== While seniority offers job security and a sense of fairness, it also presents challenges in modern workplaces. To address this, many labor contracts have adopted flexible seniority systems, where an employee’s abilities, skills, and job performance are also considered alongside their tenure. For example, companies might use performance reviews to guide decisions related to promotions, salary increases, and even layoffs. This approach allows employers to respect seniority while ensuring that productivity and contributions to the organization are fairly acknowledged. Union rules may also include probationary periods and warnings as mechanisms to balance seniority with performance. Employers are often required to warn poorly performing employees and give them a probationary period to improve before considering dismissal. During disputes, records from performance reviews and probation periods often play a crucial role in arbitration, helping to determine whether a firing was justified. This structured process ensures that performance issues are managed fairly without undermining the seniority system's core principles.<ref name="Sampson 1990 Efficient union labour contracts"/><ref name="Fairweather 1952 Seniority Provisions"/>
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