SECTION 260:25-13-32. Order of employee removal

(a)   Agency-wide, or within displacement limits, if established, retention of affected employees shall be based on job family level and type of appointment [74:840-2.27C]. Subject to eligible classified employees accepting displacement offers, agencies shall separate probationary classified employees in affected job family levels, except those affected employees on probationary status after reinstatement from permanent classified status without a break in service, prior to the separation or voluntary demotion of any permanent classified employee from the same job family level [74:840 2.27C].

(b)   Retention of permanent classified employees in affected job family levels and within displacement limits, if any are established, shall be based on years of service [74:840-2.27C].

(c)   The Appointing Authority shall calculate retention points for all eligible classified employees, including those on an approved leave of absence. Eligible classified employees with more retention points shall be ranked higher; with the order of removal from a job family level in inverse order of that ranking. If tie scores occur, the ranking of employees who have the same total retention points shall be determined first by giving a veteran's preference over affected nonveterans who have equal retention points to the affected veteran and then by giving preference for retention according to years of service in the agency. If a tie continues to exist, retention status shall be determined by a method established by the Appointing Authority and described in the reduction-in-force implementation plan [74:840- 2.27C].

(d)   For purposes of a reduction-in-force, any permanent classified employee on a detail to special duty shall be ranked on the basis of base job family level, not on the basis of the job to which detailed.

[Source: Added at 31 Ok Reg 1346, eff 9-12-14]