1. The District must lay off temporary (hourly) instructors in the particular kind of service(s) in question.
   
2. The District must lay off contract and/or probationary, and/or regular faculty members for overload assignments except as the overload is part of a single class needed to make load in the particular kind of service(s) in question.
   
3. The District must lay off contract and/or probationary faculty members in the particular kind of service(s) in question.

In any event the District will not be required to, nor will they, retain an employee with less seniority than an employee who is laid off in the subject related areas. Should there be a conflict between the statutes pertaining to an academic reduction in force and this Article, the statutes will prevail. (Education Code Section 87743 read, in part: “...provided, that the services of no regular employee may be terminated under the provisions of this Section while any contract employee, or any other employee with less seniority, is retained to render a service which said regular employee is academic and competent to render.”)

*   The order refers to the effective date of non-re-employment of the employee involved.

1. Qualification means the possession of the authorized credentials issued by the State of California for service in a California public Community College authorizing service in the area in question.
   
2. Competency means demonstrated acceptable performance. Competency may be demonstrated by submission of evidence, subject to verification by the District, of the following:
   
   1. Teaching experience in the particular kind of subject related service(s) in question:
   2. The recency of such teaching experience;
   3. The level of the teaching experience and the duration of such teaching experience;
   4. Credentials, degrees, majors and minors;
   5. Comparable related non-teaching work experience as may be applicable to the particular kind of subject related service(s) in question;
   6. Comparable course work, workshops, seminars, and other experiences of a similar nature which may have a bearing on the position in question.