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What is the definition of the escalator principle?

• The provision where Returning employees are entitled to all of the seniority-based benefits they had when their service began, plus any additional benefits they would have attained with reasonable certainty had they remained continuously employed
• The major tasks, duties, and responsibilities for which the job exists; they cannot be modified or eliminated without substantially changing the nature of the job
• Efforts by an employer to facilitate the employment of a handicapped person that are not excessively expensive and do not interfere with normal operations
• Where preferential treatment is shown to females and minorities, often to achieve an affirmative action goal