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Time in grade requirements for promotion will be three (3) years with the LPFD Department for Fire Engineer, and five (5) years with the LPFD Department for Fire Captain. If, in the opinion of the Fire Chief, a vacancy in the Department sou should be filled Eby an open-competitive examination instead of promotional examination, he/she the Fire Chief shall arrange an open- competitive employment list consistent with the Personnel Rules. B. B. Demotion Bargaining unit employees who are promoted to a chief officer classification out of the bargaining unit and subsequently demote during their first twelve (12) months of service as a chief officer shall be reinstated to a bargaining unit position in the classification from which they were promoted. Such employees will have all seniority in their former rank restored at the time of demotion but shall not receive any additional rank seniority for the time served in the chief officer classification. a - • - - • -, _ .. - - _. . • • ' „ e - : :- apply. Therefore upon demotion during the first twelve months, a Chief Officer promoted from Local #1974 will have rank seniority restored with the only reduction being the missing weeks Any Employees who are demoted employee--from ., _ -- • . - • ._. - • 4, . ., - . • a chief officer classification into a bargaining unit position, as well as existing bargaining unit employees demoted to lower classifications within the bargaining unit, will have their overtime factor set to the highest level for ef-their rank assignment,plus one (1) hour. The above pelieie f r rank seniority and the-overtime factor provisions of this section apply to employees who voluntarily demote and those who are involuntarily demoted from their positions • - - - • • - . • -•• . •uring their 12-month promotional probationary period_ . •• - . ., • • . • . . . .. . • . •. However, employees who demote after attaining permanent status in their promoted position will be places in an open positions in their former classification and will not be credited with any previously earned and-rank seniority. ' . . . •- . - . -: Such employees "start-over" for rank seniority and their overtime factor will be reset as in the paragraph above. Chief officers hired from outside the bargaining unit cannot demote into a line fire suppression position within the bargaining unit. They do not have a former fire suppression classification in the bargaining unit to which they may be returned. There is no prevision for this in the Lec: • , • •- . . . . •-- - C. Long-Term Acting Assignments C. 48