Current through September 16, 2024
1. Except as
otherwise provided in NAC
284.425, if it becomes necessary
for a classified employee to be laid off because of a shortage of work or
money, the abolition of a position, or some other material change in duties or
organization:
(a) The director of the
department shall determine in what geographical location, class series, class
and option the reductions in staff will have the least detrimental effect on
the operations of the department and shall specify layoffs accordingly. In the
Department of Health and Human Services and the Nevada System of Higher
Education, the administrator of a division may be designated to make these
determinations with the approval of the director of the department.
(b) Within the department, geographical
location, class series, class and option selected, all employees of the
department who are not permanent must be separated from service before any
permanent employees in the following order:
(1) Emergency employees.
(2) Temporary employees.
(3) Provisional employees.
(4) Probationary employees.
(c) If additional reductions are
necessary, permanent employees must be laid off on the basis of seniority
pursuant to NAC
284.632.
(d) In the department, geographical location,
class series, class and option where layoffs are to take place, those employees
with the least seniority must be laid off, transferred as set forth in
subsection 2 or voluntarily demoted as set forth in NAC
284.618.
(e) An appointing authority may consider
limiting layoffs to employees in full-time or part-time positions. Similar
considerations may be given to and limitations placed on positions requiring
selective certification pursuant to NAC
284.361.
2. If a permanent employee must be laid off
for one of the reasons set forth in subsection 1, the appointing authority
shall notify the employee that he or she may choose to:
(a) Transfer within his or her department,
class and option into the position of the employee in his or her department,
class and option with the least seniority;
(b) Be voluntarily demoted as set forth in
NAC 284.618; or
(c) Exercise his or her reemployment rights
as set forth in NAC
284.630.
3. Within 3 working days after an employee
has been notified of his or her choices pursuant to subsection 2, he or she
must designate in writing to the appointing authority the choice he or she will
exercise.
4. For the purposes of
this section, divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services and the
Nevada System of Higher Education shall be deemed to be departments.
[Personnel Div., Rule XIII § B subsec. 1, eff. 8-11-73]
- (NAC A by Dep't of Personnel, 8-26-83; 8-28-85; 8-22-86; 7-21-89; 8-1-91;
3-27-92; 9-16-92; 11-16-95; 10-27-97; R031-98, 4-17-98; R043-99, 9-27-99;
R146-01, 1-18-2002; R147-01, 1-22-2002; A by Personnel Comm'n by R096-03,
10-30-2003; R143-05, 12-29-2005)
NRS 284.065,
284.155,
284.380
