As I said, the basic values of anything we do in terms of staffing of any type, including promotion or whatever it might be, have to be fairness, access, and transparency. If somebody is going off on maternity leave or someone retires and their job becomes vacant, the manager has to have done some thinking about their staffing strategy for replacing that person. How are they going to do it?
There can be any variety of ways of doing that. They may run a short internal process to give an acting assignment so that those who might be interested in trying that as an acting--