(1) A career employee whose employment is terminated on or after January 1, 1980, by lay-off, dismissal, other than for cause, and, in the case of an unclassified management employee, resignation other than resignation in lieu of dismissal for cause, shall, upon his written request, be reemployed or placed on reemployment lists in accordance with this section and KRS § 18A.135.
(2) If the career employee has previously attained status in a position in the classified service, he shall revert to a position in that class in the agency from which he was terminated if a vacancy in that class exists. If no such vacancy exists, he shall be considered for employment in any vacant position for which he is qualified pursuant to the reemployment procedures.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 18A.130

  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Career employee: means a state employee with sixteen (16) or more years of permanent full-time state service, or the part-time employment equivalent of at least sixteen (16) years of full-time state service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Class: means a group of positions sufficiently similar as to duties performed, scope of discretion and responsibility, minimum requirements of training, experience, or skill, and such other characteristics that the same title, the same tests of fitness, and the same schedule of compensation have been or may be applied to each position in the group. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Classified service: includes all the employment subject to the terms of this chapter except for those positions expressly cited in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Employee: means a person regularly appointed to a position in the state service for which he or she is compensated on a full-time, part-time, or interim basis. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Position: means an office or employment in an agency (whether part-time, full- time, or interim, occupied, or vacant) involving duties requiring the services of one (1) person. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Reemployment: shall mean the rehiring of an employee with status who has been laid off. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Status: means the acquisition of tenure with all rights and privileges granted by the provisions of this chapter after satisfactory completion of the initial probationary period by an employee in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005

(3) If the career employee has not previously attained status in the classified service or if he has attained status but no vacancy exists in a position to which subsection (2) of this section applies, the employee shall be placed on reemployment lists for any positions for which he is qualified.
Effective: July 15, 1982
History: Repealed, reenacted, and amended as KRS § 18A.130, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 26, effective July 15, 1982. — Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 2, effective July
15, 1980.
Formerly codified as KRS § 18.216.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. I, C, 2, (1) at 1658.

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