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Upon receipt of such notice, the Director of Human Resources, in coordination with the civil
service commission, will prepare a REDUCTION IN FORCE (RIF) list of all employees affected.
The RIF list will assign an order of layoff to each effected employee and the department must
conform to that order. The intent and purpose of this sub-section is to insure fairness and equity in
the exercise of employee layoffs.
6.01 Under no circumstances will this section (6.00 - 6.06), if adopted by the civil service
commission in its subject rules and regulations, be used to infringe upon or usurp the power, nor the
statutory authority of the Commissioners Court of Nueces County to create, establish,
increase/decrease in number, abolish, or delete position(s) or budgeted funds for such position(s).
ORDER OF LAYOFF:
6.02 The order of layoff of employees within the pay group and in the department, board, or
institution in which the reduction in force is to be made shall be:
a. seasonal employees
a. temporary employees
b. probationary employees;
c. regular employees.
The order of layoff of regular employees shall be according to layoff ratings. Employees with
lowest ratings will be laid off first. Among employees with equal layoff ratings, the order of layoff
shall be determined by the appointing authority.
LAYOFF RATINGS:
6.03 Competition: Seniority rating within the class and performance ratings shall be combined in
the following manner to determine a layoff rating. The seniority rating will be determined simply by
the date in which the employee first became a regular employee with the county in his/her current
position/pay group.
The combination of seniority and performance ratings shall be the layoff rating.
6.04 Seniority for Layoff Purposes. The seniority of an employee for inclusion in his/her layoff
rating shall be based upon the number of completed years of continuous County service in the class
from which the employee is laid off. Periods of absence on leave shall not be credited as continuous
County service. Seniority in the class for which the layoff rating is computed shall include service in
any other class deemed by the Civil Service Commission, to be of the same character, but of greater
responsibility or difficulty. An employee who resigns from the County service, or is dismissed under
charges shall lose all seniority credited to him/her prior thereto, and subsequent reinstatement or
reemployment of that employee shall not restore the seniority so lost. An employee laid off after
acquiring regular employment status, shall after reinstatement, regain the seniority credit he/she
possessed at the time of layoff.
Nueces County Personnel Policy Manual Page -43-
Approved by Commissioners Court on January _____, 2013