lorain county general health district employee personnel

6.2 Lay-off
The Health Board and the Health Commissioner, as co-appointing authorities,
maintain the legal right to lay-off employees whenever a reduction in the work force is
necessary due to lack of work, lack of funds or projected lack of funds, or job abolishment.
Lay-offs shall occur within job classifications established in the class plan, beginning with
seasonal or intermittent employees; then the part-time employees with the least amount of
continuous service with the agency; then all other part-time employees within the selected
job classifications; then the full-time employees, beginning with the full-time employee with
the least amount of continuous service within the agency. For purposes of this provision,
Acontinuous service@ shall mean service from the employee=s original date of hire with the
agency provided the employee has not had a separation of service of thirty-one (31) days
or more. Approved leave time shall not be considered as separation from service.
Whenever a reduction in the work force is necessary, the Health Commissioner shall
have the right to determine the classification(s) in which the lay-off(s) will occur, and the
number of employees to be laid off within each classification.
An employee subject to lay-off shall be notified, in person, of the action at least
fourteen (14) days prior to the effective date. An employee shall be notified at least
seventeen (17) days prior to the effective date in the case where the lay-off notice is sent
by certified mail.
An employee who is laid off or whose job has been abolished may, at his or her
option, exercise his or her rights to displace another or to fill an available vacancy in the
same or lower job classification within the class plan. An employee exercising his or her
displacement rights shall be paid according to the same rate of pay or range assigned to
the classification into which the employee is displaced. An employee who was laid off may
be reinstated at any time within one year after the effective date of lay-off, provided the
person remains qualified to perform the duties of the position. Each employee eligible to be
recalled from lay-off shall be notified of the offer of reinstatement delivered by certified mail
to employee=s last known address. It shall be the laid-off employee=s responsibility to keep
the agency informed of his or her current mailing address.
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