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22.E.1 --
A standing bid preference for an AE will not be awarded if such award,
together with any VD/MD(s) for the same category, would create a surplus that would cause a displacement in the category.
I'll admit I could be wrong here, but if there are 20 vacancies they will be filled with AE's because they are run first. Then when they run the MD's if any of those guys are senior to the AE guys they will get the positions and the guys with AE's won't get it. It's not causing a displacement, the AE guy just won't get the award or if the MD guys don't have seniority they also won't get the award. The AE guys cannot bump a junior guy out of the category, but the MD guys can. However an MD cannot bump a guy senior to them who has an AE in for a vacancy. That is they way it was explained to me and maybe I heard it wrong, but I still think that a junior guy with an MD cannot prohibit a senior guy with an AE from taking a vacant position. That MD only allows them to bump someone junior out of the category.