Kentucky Statutes 18A.135 – Reemployment of career employees
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(1) Any career employee who has been laid-off or dismissed, other than for cause, and, in the case of an unclassified management employee, resignation other than resignation in lieu of dismissal for cause, shall automatically be placed on the reemployment list for the class from which he was terminated. If a career employee wishes to be on the reemployment list for other classes of positions for which he is qualified and passes the appropriate selection method, he shall notify the cabinet in writing.
(2) If more than one (1) career employee requests to be placed on the reemployment list for any job classification, the cabinet shall list the names of such career employees in the order of their seniority.
(3) No vacancy may be filled from a competitive register until all career employees on the reemployment list for that class of position have denied employment in that class. An appointing authority may refuse to reemploy a qualified employee on the reemployment list only for cause. The secretary and the employee shall be furnished with a written statement of the specific reasons for the refusal within ten (10) days following the appointing authority’s refusal. The employee may appeal the appointing authority’s action in accordance with KRS § 18A.095 and KRS § 18A.100.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 33, effective July 15, 1998. — Repealed, reenacted, and amended as KRS § 18A.135, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 27, effective July 15, 1982. — Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1980.
Formerly codified as KRS § 18.217.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. I, C, 2, (1) at 1658.
(2) If more than one (1) career employee requests to be placed on the reemployment list for any job classification, the cabinet shall list the names of such career employees in the order of their seniority.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 18A.135
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Appointing authority: means the agency head or any person whom he or she has authorized by law to designate to act on behalf of the agency with respect to employee appointments, position establishments, payroll documents, register requests, waiver requests, requests for certification, or other position actions. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
- 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
- Cabinet: means the Personnel Cabinet provided for in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
- 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
- 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
- Register: means any official list of eligibles for a particular class and, except as provided in this chapter, placed in rank order according to the examination scores maintained for use in making original appointments or promotions to positions in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
- Secretary: means the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet as provided for in KRS
18A. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005 - Seniority: means the total number of months of state service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
(3) No vacancy may be filled from a competitive register until all career employees on the reemployment list for that class of position have denied employment in that class. An appointing authority may refuse to reemploy a qualified employee on the reemployment list only for cause. The secretary and the employee shall be furnished with a written statement of the specific reasons for the refusal within ten (10) days following the appointing authority’s refusal. The employee may appeal the appointing authority’s action in accordance with KRS § 18A.095 and KRS § 18A.100.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 33, effective July 15, 1998. — Repealed, reenacted, and amended as KRS § 18A.135, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 27, effective July 15, 1982. — Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1980.
Formerly codified as KRS § 18.217.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. I, C, 2, (1) at 1658.