If you do not respond to a contact letter or do not appear for an interview, your name will be removed from the SROA list. If you are offered a position that requires you to relocate to a different part of the state, you are eligible for relocation expenses only if you are already in receipt of a layoff notice. SROA lists take precedence over all other lists except re-employment lists. Some transactions such as mandatory reinstatements, emergency appointments, promotions in place, transfers to same class in same department, placements of disabled employees and limited-term appointments of less than three months are exempted from the SROA process. Names are placed on the lists in order of seniority scores, with the higher scores and names being placed at the top of the list.
Names remain on the lists for five years.
When a layoff occurs in a class, demotional patterns to lower-paid classes are developed for employees in the class of layoff. Primary demotional patterns consist of lower classes in the same series. In addition some employees may have personal demotional patterns to classes in which they have had permanent or probationary appointments and which are used by the layoff department. Your name will be placed on the general, departmental and subdivisional re-employment lists for any class in the primary or personal demotional pattern from which you are laid off or demoted. Your name will be placed on the departmental and subdivisional re-employment lists for any class from which you are laid off or demoted in the secondary demotional pattern.