(a) Whenever there is a lack of work or lack of funds requiring a reduction in the number of employees of the City, the required reduction shall be made in such classes as the appointing authority shall designate. Employees shall be laid off in the inverse order of their relative quality of service, as determined by rules governing the evaluation of service. When two or more employees within a department shall have equal merit ratings, departmental seniority shall control. Within such affected classes, all temporary employees shall be laid off before provisional employees, and the latter before probationary employees, and the latter before permanent employees.
(b) The City shall give one work week of notice in writing in cases of lay-offs and reductions. However, any employee of the City whose employment is terminated by reason of the permanent discontinuance of operations in any department or division of the City shall be kept in the employment of the City at the same rate of pay that was applicable at such termination for a period of not more than six months or until such employee secures other employment.
When operations in a department or division are discontinued, the City Manager shall make reasonable effort to relocate qualified persons into other City departments and assist in finding other employment for all employees requiring the same.
(Ord. 2850. Passed 1-7-85.)