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permanent employees. The State will manage centrally the placement of

the affected permanent employees.

§20.3 Permanent non-competitive class employees with one year of
continuous non-competitive service immediately prior to layoff shall be

accorded the same rights at layoff as well as placement roster, preferred list
and reemployment roster rights, as employees covered by State Civil

Service Law Sections 75.1(c), 80-a, 81, 81-a and 81-b. Labor class
employees who meet these criteria in the labor class shall be accorded the

same rights.

Article 21
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Article 22

Employment Security
§22.1 (a) There shall be no loss of present employment by permanent

employees as a result of the State’s exercise of its right to contract out for
goods and services.

(b) Notwithstanding the provision of Article 22.1(a), permanent
employees affected by the State’s exercise of its right to contract out for

goods and services will receive 60 days written notice of intended
separation and will be offered a redeployment option as provided for in

Appendix VII(a), but where such redeployment option is not able to be
offered and where no displacement rights as provided for in Civil Service

Law Sections 80 and 80-a are available, the affected permanent employee

shall be offered the opportunity to elect one of the following transition
benefits:
(i) a financial stipend for an identified retraining or educational

opportunity as provided for in Appendix VII(B); or

(ii) severance pay as provided for in Appendix VII(C); or (iii) the
employee opts for and obtains preferential employment with the contractor

at the contractor’s terms and conditions, if available.
(c)(1) The transition benefits set forth above shall not apply to an affected

permanent employee, and the State’s obligation under this Article to said
employee shall cease, if an affected permanent employee declines a

primary redeployment opportunity as provided for in Appendix VII(a), or

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