The lay-off procedure exists to remove an individual from a position only for budgetary reasons or for lack of work. It is not intended as a method to remove an employee due to a performance problem. The Civil Service rules give the employee whose position is being abolished certain rights. Those rights include the right to employment if there are other employees in the same classification at the University with less seniority who are still employed. The rights do not include the right to choose a position.
Seniority plays a big part in the lay-off procedure.
Who actually gets laid off is determined by seniority. Only the least senior employee in a particular classification can be laid off. While you may abolish the position of the least senior employee in your unit, that employee may be more senior than someone in another unit. In this case, when you lay-off an employee who is not the least senior in the class, that individual automatically has rights to the least senior position in the classification, wherever that may be on campus. The least senior person is then displaced from his or her position.