Seniority in a sentence as a noun

"I lost my job only due to my lack of seniority.

Even that is driven by seniority, though: the most senior pilots get the big jets.

Why not just go home, where you have the seniority and the contacts, where you know the old stories and can visit the old hangouts?

I would be a lot more sympathetic to teachers if their pay system wasn't seniority based, or if it wasn't so hard to fire teachers.

Younger teachers might favor merit pay and looser seniority rules.

It's obvious that seniority rules increase the number of laid-off teachers.

Some professions have more of a premium on seniority and experience than others.

The most important aspect of seniority is furlough: least senior gets furloughed first.

Some aspects of the seniority system make complete sense: you don't want the airline to use a furlough as an excuse to get rid of its most highly-paid pilots.

Combined with age-based seniority in programming teams, this kills innovation quick.

One big difference is that ex-Military pilots are given super-seniority and progress to the left seat much faster.

* RIM instituted a promotion policy based largely on seniority.

In the context of the public education system, it is a measure of the incentive to achieve seniority and bureaucratic promotions.

The issue of seniority always bugs me. If a 26 year old guy who writes "good enough" code can be a Senior, which I see very often, what's left?Personally I wouldn't feel right with a title including "senior" until I've got at least 10y experience, generated millions in revenue and lead a team of >10.

Most people aren't aware that many union contracts prohibit the principal from choosing the teachers in the school because of seniority rules, and getting rid of bad teachers is essentially hopeless.

However, other things that dramatically effect lifestyle are also driven by seniority, such as scheduling and vacation.

He didn't know it at the time, but it turned out to be the best career decision he ever made: a few years later there was a major furlough, and he was just a few seniority numbers above the furlough line.

They both bribe incumbent owners/renters/voters with an economically valuable seniority privilege, at the expense of the future and flexibility.

Seniority definitions

noun

higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

noun

the property of being long-lived

See also: longevity