State of California
   
   M E M O R A N D U M
   
   REFERENCE CODE:
   PML 96-044
   
   DATE:
   September 6, 1996
   
   TO:
   Personnel Officers
   
   FROM:
   Department of Personnel Administration
   Classification and Compensation Division
   
   SUBJECT:
   General Reemployment List Eligibility and Government Code
   19997.11
   
   
   CONTACT:
   Joe Broderick
   (916) 324-9397 or Calnet 454-9397
   Fax (916) 327-1886
   Office Vision:  DPA(JBRODER)
   Internet:  JABRODER@SMTP.DPA.CA.GOV
   
   
   
   The Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) has
   delegated to departments the responsibility for placing
   the names of employees who are laid off on reemployment
   lists.  The purpose of this memorandum is to remind all
   departments that you are not to place the names of
   employees on general reemployment lists for classes in
   which they do not have status and through which they did
   not demote in-lieu-of layoff.
   
   Government Code 19997.11 grants DPA the authority to place
   an employee's name on the general reemployment list for a
   class in which the employee does not have status and
   through which he/she has not been demoted in-lieu-of
   layoff.  This has been done on a few occasions for
   employees in department-specific classes in an attempt to
   help them regain employment.  This has, however, proven to
   be a counter-productive effort.  Such employees have not
   been competitive with employees who had status in the
   class and were actually laid off from the class;
   therefore, departments have not been willing to hire them. 
   Often, these employees "blocked" the reemployment lists
   and departments have kept the positions vacant.  This
   means that qualified employees with status in the classes
   who had been laid off were not offered reemployment
   opportunities.
   
   DPA ceased the placement of employees' names on general
   reemployment lists for classes in which they did not have
   status and through which they did not demote in-lieu-of
   layoff effective May 17, 1996.  This was announced on that
   date in a computer note on the Professional Office Systems
   that was sent to all Personnel Officers.
   
   Please contact Joe Broderick at (916) 324-9397, if you
   have any questions.
   
   
   
   
   Mike Vargas
   Program Manager