Layoff Notification. The Appointing Authority shall send a layoff notice to the employee in the position to be eliminated. The layoff notice shall be provided to the employee in person whenever practicable and shall otherwise be sent by priority mail. At the Appointing Authority’s discretion, an employee under notice of permanent layoff may be granted up to one hundred and sixty (160) hours of paid leave, ending at the date of layoff. Hours of leave may be granted at any time throughout the layoff notice period and shall not be subject to the Application and Reinstatement provisions of Article 10. Upon request, an Appointing Authority shall provide an employee on notice of layoff assistance in searching for State employment. Provisional, temporary and emergency employees shall be terminated before any layoff of probationary or permanent employees in the same class, employment condition and geographic location/principal place of employment. Provisional employees shall be separated in inverse order of the date of their provisional appointment.
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