Proposed Revisions to Staff Policy 60 - Layoff and Reduction in Time from Professional and Support Staff Career Positions

Dear Colleagues,

UC is proposing to revise the system-wide layoff policy for staff employees.  As with all such policy revisions, UC invites employees to comment on the proposed changes.

The main focus of the revised policy is to clarify that performance is one of several key factors to be considered when deciding employee layoffs and/or reductions in time.  The previous version of the policy took employee performance and skills into account under certain circumstances, but it emphasized seniority as the dominant factor in layoff...