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...ication. The director of administrative services shall adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, establishing a method for determining layoff procedures and an order of layoff of, and the displacement and recall of, laid-off state and county employees. The order of layoff in those rules shall be based in part on length of service and may include efficiency in service, appointment type, or similar oth...

...Employees shall be laid off in the order set forth in this section within the primary appointment categories of part-time probationary, part-time permanent, full-time probationary, and full-time permanent. Whenever a reduction in force is necessary within each of the primary appointment categories, first part-time probationary, then part-time permanent, then full-time probationary, and then full-time permane...

...id off. The director of administrative services shall verify the calculation of the retention points of all employees in the service of the state in an affected classification in accordance with section 124.325 of the Revised Code. (B) Following the order of layoff, an employee laid off in the classified civil service shall displace another employee within the same appointing authority or independent instituti...

...ts to reflect the length of continuous service and efficiency in service for all employees affected by a layoff shall be verified by the director of administrative services for positions in the service of the state. (B) An employee's length of continuous service will be carried from one layoff jurisdiction to another so long as no break in service occurs between transfers or appointments. (C) If two or more e...

...itution. The director of administrative services shall establish layoff districts for state agencies, boards, and commissions. (2) County jurisdiction: within county agencies, the order of layoff shall be followed within each county appointing authority. (3) University and college jurisdiction: each state-supported college and university is a separate, indivisible layoff jurisdiction throughout which the order o...

...ity by the department of administrative services or, in the absence of position-specific minimum qualifications so developed and reviewed, meets the qualifications described in the applicable classification, but only in the same classification from which the employee was initially laid off or displaced. Layoff lists for each appointing authority must be exhausted before other jurisdiction reemployment layoff lists ar...

...A classified employee may appeal a layoff, or a displacement that is the result of a layoff, to the state personnel board of review. The appeal shall be filed or postmarked no later than ten days after receipt of the layoff notice or after the date the employee is displaced. In cases involving the laying off of classified employees, the affected employee or appointing authority may appeal the decision of the state pe...

...ee holding a position in the classified service may be temporarily transferred from the employee's original position to a similar position for a period not to exceed thirty days, or for a longer period not to exceed ninety days if agreed to by the employee and employer. No employee shall be temporarily transferred more than once during any six-month period without the approval of the director of administrative ser...

...y officer or employee in the classified service of the state and the counties, civil service townships, cities, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state, holding a position under this chapter, shall be during good behavior and efficient service. No officer or employee shall be reduced in pay or position, fined, suspended, or removed, or have the officer's or employee's l...

...n the classified or unclassified civil service becomes aware in the course of employment of a violation of state or federal statutes, rules, or regulations or the misuse of public resources, and the employee's supervisor or appointing authority has authority to correct the violation or misuse, the employee may file a written report identifying the violation or misuse with the supervisor or appointing authority...

...In any hearing on the question of fitness and continued employment of any person holding a position, job, or office under the authority of this state, the fact that he, being called before a duly authorized tribunal, or in an investigation under authority of law, refuses to testify concerning his membership in an organization which advocates overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state, by force,...

... board of review or the municipal civil service commission shall be subject to appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which such public employees are employed to determine the sufficiency of the cause of removal. Such appeal shall be taken within ten days from the finding of the board or commission.

...ment, the youngest employee in point of service shall be first laid off. Should a position in the police or fire department once abolished or made unnecessary be found necessary to be re-created or re-established within three years from the date of abolishment, or should a vacancy occur through death, resignation, or any other cause within three years from the date of the abolishment of the position or layoff, the ol...

...tled for each completed eighty hours of service to sick leave of four and six-tenths hours with pay: (A) Employees in the various offices of the county, municipal, and civil service township service, other than superintendents and management employees, as defined in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code, of county boards of developmental disabilities; (B) Employees of any state college or university; (C) Any emp...

...mined by the director of administrative services. (2) "Active pay status" means the conditions under which an employee is eligible to receive pay, and includes, but is not limited to, vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, bereavement leave, and administrative leave. (3) "No pay status" means the conditions under which an employee is ineligible to receive pay and includes, but is not limited to, leave with...

...(A) The director of administrative services shall allow a full-time or part-time employee who is credited with sick leave pursuant to division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code to elect one of the following options with respect to sick leave credit remaining at the end of the year: (1) Carry forward the balance; (2) Receive a cash benefit as established by the director. An employee serving in a tempor...

...e shall have at least one year of state service and shall request all or a portion of that payment no later than three years after separation from state service. No person is eligible to receive all or a portion of the payment authorized by this section at any time later than three years after the person's separation from state service. (B) A person initially employed on or after July 5, 1987, by a state agency in...

... completed one year of continuous state service immediately prior to the date of the disability and if any of the following applies: (1) The employee is a full-time permanent employee and is eligible for sick leave credit pursuant to division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code. (2) The employee is a part-time permanent employee who has worked at least fifteen hundred hours within the twelve-month period im...

... rule of the director of administrative services. The credit shall be made to each eligible employee in the first pay the employee receives in December. Employees, upon giving reasonable notice to the responsible administrative officer of the appointing authority, may use personal leave for absence due to mandatory court appearances, legal or business matters, family emergencies, unusual family obligations, medical a...

...(A) As used in this section, "stillborn" has the same meaning as in section 124.136 of the Revised Code. (B) Each full-time permanent and part-time permanent employee whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management shall be granted three days of bereavement leave with pay due to the death of a member of the employee's immediate family. (C) Except as provided in division...

...(A) An appointing authority may, in its discretion, place an employee on administrative leave with pay. Administrative leave with pay is to be used only in circumstances where the health or safety of an employee or of any person or property entrusted to the employee's care could be adversely affected. Compensation for administrative leave with pay shall be equal to the employee's base rate of pay. The length of ad...

...The director of administrative services may establish an employee exchange program for employees whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management. The director of administrative services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to provide for the administration of the program.

...ction, "retirement" means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of this section, an employee of a state college or university may elect, at the time of retirement from active service and with ten or more years of service with the state or any of its political subdivisions, to be paid in cash for one-fourth of the va...

...e. (B) The director of administrative services may establish a program under which an employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management may donate that employee's accrued but unused paid leave to another employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management who has no accrued but unused paid leave and who has a critical need for it because of circumstances such as ...

.... (B) The director of administrative services may establish a voluntary cost savings program for exempt employees. (C) The director of administrative services shall establish a mandatory cost savings program applicable to exempt employees. Subject to division (C)(1) of this section, the program may include, but is not limited to, a loss of pay or loss of holiday pay as determined by the director. The pr...