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O.C.G.A. § 20-4-35 — Reduction in force policy | Georgia Code
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TITLE 20 EDUCATION

Section 4. Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, 20-4-1 through 20-4-134.

ARTICLE 2 TECHNICAL AND ADULT EDUCATION

20-4-35. Reduction in force policy.

The State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia shall develop and implement a policy which provides for an orderly and fair process to be used in the event any reduction in force becomes necessary.The reduction in force policy shall provide that:

  1. Presidents of state technical institutes shall devise a plan for a reduction in force for their respective institutions;
  2. Any reduction in force within an institution shall be limited to that institution;
  3. The institute president shall decide the competitive area and competitive group to which any reduction in force is applicable;
  4. All individuals within a competitive group will participate in the reduction in force process, regardless of whether they are in the classified or unclassified service, tenured or nontenured;
  5. The State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia shall prescribe the basis for determining retention credits which shall be uniform among all state technical institutes;
  6. Plans describing the process by which a reduction in force would be conducted within each state technical institute shall be approved by the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; and
  7. Any employee of a state technical institute who believes the approved plan for that institution was not followed shall have the right to appeal to the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia, and the decision of the board shall be final.

(Code 1981, §20-4-35, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 691, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 632, § 3/HB 49.)

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1991, the comma was deleted following "followed" in paragraph (7).

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