Treatment of the Employees Laid Off Clause Samples

Treatment of the Employees Laid Off. 1. When the Fire Chief is instructed by the City Council to reduce the number of employees in the classified service within his/her department, lay-off shall be made in accordance with the following rules: a. Employees to be laid off shall be given a leave of absence without pay until the position is re-established whereupon such employee shall be given ten (10) days' notice to accept re- employment. b. The names of each employee laid off shall be entered on the "re-employment list" established by the Personnel Commission and notification as provided in the commission rules shall be required. Within ten (10) days, a certificate by a qualified physician or surgeon selected by the commission, may be required certifying as to his/her physical fitness to perform the service involved. 2. The first person laid off from a department, within a class shall be the one with the least length of service within the class and grade since original permanent employment. The person so laid off shall thereupon be restored to a position in a class in the same department in which he/she formerly held a regular position in which: a. The employee displaced shall be considered laid off for the same reason as the person who displaces him/her and shall likewise be restored as provided herein, in a class in which an unfilled position exists, or, b. There is then employed a person with less total length of service since original appointment. The person with the least length of service shall be displaced by the employee laid off from the higher class. 3. Should an employee have rights for displacement in more than one previous classification, he/she shall displace first in the highest classification to which he/she is eligible. 4. In accordance with the City Charter, whenever a position in any class is to be filled, unless filled by a reduction of rank as provided above, it shall be filled in the following order: a. From the re-employment list for that class; b. From the promotional register of eligibles for that class; c. From the appropriate competitive register of eligibles. 5. When employment is from the re-employment list, one name shall be certified for each vacancy to be filled and in the order of greatest length of service in that and higher classes since regular appointment.