N.J. Admin. Code § 4A:8-2.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 4A:8-2.2 - Exercise of lateral and demotional rights

(a) Employees shall be ranked, for purposes of exercise of layoff rights, in order of seniority.

(b) In State service, a permanent employee in a position affected by a layoff action shall be provided applicable lateral and demotional title rights first at the employees option within the municipality in which the facility or office is located, and then to the job locations selected by the employee within the department or autonomous agency. The employee shall select individual job locations in preferential order from the list of all job locations within the department or autonomous agency and indicate:

1. Job locations at which he or she will accept lateral title rights; and

2. Job locations at which he or she will accept demotional title rights, including any restrictions based on salary range or class code.

(c) In local service, a permanent employee in a position affected by a layoff action shall be provided title rights within the layoff unit.

(d) Following the employees selection of job location preferences, lateral and demotional title rights shall be provided in the following order:

1. A vacant position that the appointing authority has previously indicated it is willing to fill;

2. A position held by a provisional employee who does not have permanent status in another title. Where there are multiple provisional employees at a job location, the specific position shall be determined by the appointing authority;

3. A position held by a provisional employee who has permanent status in another title. Where there are multiple provisionals at a job location, the specific position shall be based on the level of the permanent title held and seniority;

4. The position held by the employee serving in a working test period with the least seniority;

5. In State service, and in local jurisdictions having a performance evaluation program approved by the Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission or designee, the position held by the permanent employee whose most recent (within the last 12 months) performance rating in his or her permanent title was Unsatisfactory or equivalent rating;

6. The position held by the permanent employee with the least seniority (see N.J.A.C. 4A:8-2.4).

(e) Employees serving in their working test periods shall be provided rights to their probationary titles in the same order as (d)1 through 4 above.

(f) Demotional rights may extend beyond the employees demotional title rights to include any title previously held on a permanent basis within current continuous service. Displacement may be made only on the basis of greater permanent continuous service except when a provisional or probationary employee is serving in the previously held title. In such cases, the provisional or probationary employee shall be subject to displacement.

1. Such extended rights shall not be granted when the employee has either lateral title rights options, or demotional title rights options to a title with a higher class code than the previously held title, within the selected job locations.

(g) Employees who are placed in trainee titles shall serve a complete training period if the trainee title is outside of either the specialized or generalized title series from which they were laid off.

(h) When employees are granted demotional title rights, the employees shall be entitled to exercise these rights regardless of whether they have greater or less seniority than the employees against whom they are exercising such rights.

N.J. Admin. Code § 4A:8-2.2

Amended by 46 N.J.R. 1331(c), effective 6/2/2014.

Amended by 51 N.J.R. 1115(a), effective 7/1/2019