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(d) If a regular employee to be separated has regular status in a lower classification, reduction in classification (bumping) shall be approved. For purposes of bumping, the number of positions filled by the least senior employees in the affected classification(s) equal to the number of positions being deleted from the classification shall be identified. Additionally, all vacant positions in the affected classification shall be made available to the affected employees. This collective group of positions shall then be subject to the bumping process. (e) Regular employees whose positions have been deleted shall be allowed to exercise their options, based on seniority, to select either a vacant position or to bump into any one of the filled junior positions within their current classification. An employee who elects not to bump into any position within the collective group of vacant and filled junior positions, thereby retaining his/her existing classification, shall be provided the opportunity to select from those options identified in (g) of this exhibit. (f) Reductions in classification shall only be approved when the employee has previously passed probation in the lower classification. Reductions in classification shall first be made to the next lower classification in which the employee has regular status. The employee being reduced may only replace a junior employee, or be placed in a vacant position, in the classification identified pursuant to (d) above. The junior employee being bumped will be separated or reduced in classification. If the employee does not have seniority in the classification to which he/she is first considered for reduction, reduction shall then be made to the next lower classification in which the employee has previously achieved permanent status. This procedure shall continue until all reductions in classification and the ultimate separations are completed. (g) If bumping results in an assignment which the employee considers to be undesirable, such employee may request: (1) a voluntary demotion to any vacant position in the City; (2) a lateral transfer to a position in which they have previously held regular status and have seniority over the incumbent. Any of these options require the approval of the City Manager.