A. Any city employee may be laid off for an indefinite period of time whenever the city council determines there is a lack of work or funds for the position or that the necessity for the position no longer exists. No regular or probationary employee shall be laid off while a temporary employee is serving in the same classification in that department.

B. Temporary employees within a deleted position within a particular department shall be the first subject to layoff, followed by probationary employees, the order being determined by seniority, the last hired being laid off first. For regular employee, layoffs shall be governed by job performance and seniority in service within a particular department and job classification: that is, a regular employee being laid off shell be that employee with the least seniority in the particular job classification concerned and in the department involved who is in the lowest job performance category based on the overall performance rating on the last evaluation form due prior to the effective date of the layoff(s). In other words, the regular employee in the lowest job performance category having the least seniority within the job classification to be deleted from a department, will be the first to be laid off.

C. The names of regular and probationary employees laid off shall be placed upon reemployment lists for one year for those classes requiring substantially the same basic (minimal) qualifications, duties and responsibilities of the class from which the layoff was made. (Prior code § 2705.3)