§ 16-405. Plan of outplacement assistance.

   (a) Duties of Commission. -- The Commission shall provide at least 60 days' advance notice, and maintain at all times a formal plan of outplacement assistance, for each employee of the Commission who is represented by a certified representative and will be adversely affected by a service contract that is subject to this subtitle.

(b) Contents of plan. -- A plan described in subsection (a) of this section shall include:

   (1) efforts to transfer or place each adversely affected employee of the Commission in a vacant position of the Commission that the employee is qualified to perform;

   (2) inclusion of a requirement in the service contract that the contractor shall:

      (i) notify the Commission of each vacant position for which displaced employees of the Commission may apply; and

      (ii) consider and give preference to hiring displaced employees of the Commission; and

   (3) written notification of the anticipated adverse effect on one or more job classifications to the certified representative at least 90 days before the anticipated adverse effect will occur.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 28, § 2-112.2(e); 2012, ch. 426, § 2.