Provisions Specific for Classified Employees. The same procedure for clas- sified employees shall apply with the following modifications:
a. Classified employees within the classification(s) affected will be laid off in the reverse order of seniority. For the purposes of this article only, sen- iority shall be defined as the length of continuous District service as a clas- sified employee. A classified employee shall be any District position other than a licensed school instructor or administrative position. Approved un- paid leaves of absence shall not be counted as seniority but shall also not represent a break in service.
b. No regular employee shall be discharged or terminated as a result of RIF until all newly hired probationary or temporary employees in the same clas- sification(s) have been discharged or terminated. Persons who have been displaced because of RIF shall be entitled to displace the junior persons in their classification areas. When two or more employees are equal in senior- ity in classification area, the superintendent will examine the most current evaluations and rank the employees according to the number of satisfactory ratings.
c. Persons will exercise displacement rights only within the classification area in which they are employed at the time; and, except as provided above, a person’s displacement rights are limited to their classification area(s). Classified employees who elect not to exercise displacement rights within their areas shall be discharged and shall not be entitled to recall rights here- after.
d. During the recall period available vacant positions in the job titles from which employees were laid off will be offered to laid off employees in re- verse order of layoff among those who are fully qualified for the position. Failure to accept a position of an equal or greater rate of pay, or failure to respond to a recall notice in accordance with the terms of the notice shall result in an employee’s forfeiture of the right to recall.
