Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) A permanent employee shall be granted special reemployment rights based on the permanent title from which he or she has been laid off, demoted, or displaced by job location. In addition, the employee shall be entitled to special reemployment rights to his or her previously held lateral or demotional title (see 4A:8-2.2(f)
). These rights are subject to the following limitations:
1. In State service, an employee who is displaced from the municipality in which his or her facility or office was located shall, at the employee's option, be granted special reemployment rights to that municipality in addition to job locations selected by the employee.
2. An employee who is displaced by job location in a layoff action, but remains in his or her permanent title, or is reappointed to his or her permanent title from a special reemployment list, shall have special reemployment rights only to his or her original job location at the time of layoff. In cases where no facility or office remains in the original job location, the employee shall be provided the choice of another job location. As permitted by the Chairperson or designee for other good cause, and upon written request by the employee with notice to the appointing authority, the employee may substitute another job location for the original job location.
3. An employee who exercises a lateral title right or who is reappointed to a lateral title from a special reemployment list shall retain special reemployment rights only to his or her original permanent title and job location at the time of the layoff. In cases where no facility or office remains in the original job location, the employee shall be provided the choice of another job location. As permitted by the Chairperson or designee for other good cause, and upon written request by the employee with notice to the appointing authority, the employee may substitute another job location for the original job location.
(b) Priority of special reemployment lists shall be determined as follows:
1. Special reemployment lists shall take priority over all other reemployment lists, open competitive lists and lateral title changes pending examination (see 4A:4-7.6(c) ) , except those resulting from position reclassifications, for the entire jurisdiction (see 4A:8-2.1(c) 1). Special reemployment lists shall also take priority over promotional lists for the State department, autonomous agency or local department where the layoff occurred.
2. Special reemployment lists shall also take priority over noncompetitive appointments, transfers except appointments pursuant to 4A:8-1.6(f)1, and all lateral title changes except those resulting from position reclassification within a layoff unit.
(c) Employees shall be placed on a special reemployment list for an unlimited duration.
1. Ranking on the list shall be based on the employee's permanent title and seniority at the time of layoff, based on the method for calculating seniority in effect at the time of certification of the list.
2. An employee who accepts an appointment to a position in another department or agency in lieu of separation at the time of layoff shall not be placed on a special reemployment list. See 4A:8-1.6(f)1.
3. Appointments from the list shall be made in the order certified. Removal of names from a special reemployment list may be made in accordance with applicable rules (see 4A:4-4.7 and 4A:4-6). Following appointment from a special reemployment list, an employee's name shall be removed from the special reemployment list for any title with the same or lower class code, except that the employee shall retain rights to his or her permanent job title and job location at the time of layoff.
(d) Employees who resign or retire in lieu of lateral displacement, demotion or layoff, or who subsequently resign or retire, will not be placed or remain on a special reemployment list (see 4A:4-3.1(a)3 ) .
(e) In State service, employees who decline reemployment to a job location will be removed from future certifications to that location for that title and all previously held lateral or lower titles. Employees who decline reemployment to their original or substituted job location (other than the original municipality) will be certified only to the original municipality for that title and all lateral or lower titles. Employees who decline reemployment to their original municipality shall be removed from the special reemployment list for that title and all lateral or lower titles.
1. However, employees who are unavailable for work when offered reemployment due to temporary disability or other good cause shall remain on the special reemployment list. Employees who decline reemployment because the position is in a different shift from the position from which they were displaced, or because the position is full time when the position from which displaced was part-time (or vice versa) shall remain on the special reemployment list.
(f) The name of an employee shall be removed from all applicable special reemployment lists where the employee receives an intergovernmental transfer in accordance with 4A:4-7.1A within one year of the effective date of a layoff resulting in the employee's separation from service.
(g) In local service, the name of an employee laid off from the title of Police Assistant and placed on a special reemployment list shall be removed from the list if the employee is over the age of 35. See 4A:4-2.3(b)2 i.
