Ch. 11                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

(iii) Service in the job classification and its
job series, as defined by the Secretary, where the layoff is to
occur.

(2)  A provision that an employee being laid off may
displace another employee with the least seniority in the same
job classification or its job series, or any other job
classification in which the employee being laid off previously
held satisfactory permanent status. This provision shall be
limited first to the appointing authority and subsequently to the
employee's department, or by geographical area as defined by the
Secretary of Personnel, or both.

(3)  A provision that if 2 or more employees in the
same classification have the same seniority points, the order of
layoff shall be based on:

(i) Total length of employment in State
service, with the employee with the shortest service being laid
off first; or

(ii) If these employees have the same total
length of service, the appointing authority shall determine which
employee to retain by a written evaluation of the skills,
knowledge, or abilities of each employee. The appointing
authority shall submit this evaluation to the Secretary of
Personnel.

(4)  An order of reinstatement for [laid off] LAID-OFF
employees determined by seniority points, including provisions
that:

(i) An employee with the highest number of
seniority points shall be reinstated first to the classification
in which the layoff occurred or any lower classification in the
same job series within the department where the layoff occurred;
and

(ii)- Reinstatement into any other comparable
job classification to which the Secretary has certified the [laid
off] LAID-OFF employees shall be made from the top 5 senior
employees laid off.

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This corrects a stylistic error in an
internal reference and misspellings in Article 64A, §
35(b) and (c).

The stylistic error in subsection (c) and the
misspellings of the adjective "laid-off" in subsection
(b) occurred in Chs. 625 and 916 of the Acts of 1982.
The misspellings of the adjective "laid-off", in
subsection (c) occurred in Ch. 521 of the Acts of
1984.

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