Reemployment Rights Subject to the availability of a vacant position for which he/she is qualified, the laid off employee has the right to reemployment over outside candidates. Any employee who is laid off or retired in lieu of layoff, and is subsequently eligible for reemployment, shall be notified through certified mail by the District as to the date of the opening at his/her last address known to the District. The employee must respond in writing within seven (7) working days of issuance of the letter to be deemed to have declined the offer. Laid off employees are eligible for reemployment in the classification from which laid off for thirty-nine (39) months from the effective date of layoff and shall be employed in the reverse order of seniority. Their reemployment shall have preference over any other method of filling vacancies in classifications incurring layoff. An employee on a reemployment list shall be notified of promotional opportunities and shall be entitled to apply through the regular selection process. Regular employees who take voluntary demotions or voluntary reductions in assigned time in lieu of layoff shall be reemployed in their former classification or to positions in the former classification with increased assigned time as vacancies become available, for a period of thirty-nine (39) months plus twenty-four (24) months. Employees who are demoted in lieu of layoff shall remain on the reemployment list until their rights are exhausted, or until they have regained the assignment from which they were laid off. Regular employees who are eligible and elect to retire under Section 21.4.4 shall then be placed on a thirty-nine (39) month reemployment list in accordance with this regulation. The District agrees that when an offer of employment is made to an eligible person retired under this regulation, and the District receives within ten (10) workdays a written acceptance of this offer, the retired person shall be allowed sufficient time to terminate his or her retired status with Public Employees Retirement System.
