As used in Sections 840-2.27B through 840-2.27G of this title:

1. “Affected job family levels” means those containing affected positions;

2. “Affected employees” means classified employees in affected positions;

3. “Affected positions” means positions being abolished or positions which are subject to displacement action;

4. “Agency” means any office, department, board, commission, or institution of all branches of state government, except for institutions within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education;

5. “Displacement” or “displace” means the process of an employee accepting an offer of employment to an occupied or funded vacant position;

6. “Displacement limit” means any area within an agency in which displacement may not occur. These areas may include, but are not limited to, job families, units, and geographic areas within an agency;

7. “Displacement opportunity” means the circumstances under which an occupied or funded vacant position is subject to displacement by an affected employee;

8. “Displacement privilege” means the privilege an affected employee has to utilize a displacement opportunity;

9. “Educational institution” means an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, a facility under the management or control of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, or a licensed private educational institution in the State of Oklahoma;

10. “Personnel transaction” means the record of the separation as a result of a reduction-in-force of a classified affected employee from an agency, or the record of the transfer or demotion of a classified affected employee;

11. “Reduction-in-force” means abolition of positions in an agency or part of an agency and the corresponding nondisciplinary removal of affected employees from such positions through separation from employment or through displacement to other positions. Reduction-in-force may also include reorganizations;

12. “Reorganization” means the planned elimination, addition or redistribution of functions or duties either wholly within an agency, any of its subdivisions, or between agencies;

13. “Severance benefits” means employee benefits provided by the State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits Act to affected employees separated through a reduction-in-force; and

14. “Years of service” means current and prior service which is creditable for the Longevity Pay Plan. An affected employee shall not be required to have been continuously employed for two (2) years to be given credit for either current or prior service pursuant to the State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits Act.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 287, § 5, eff. July 1, 1997. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 410, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2001, c. 33, § 175, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 212, § 12, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2004, c. 5, § 92, emerg. eff. March 1, 2004.

NOTE: Laws 2003, c. 120, § 1 repealed by Laws 2004, c. 5, § 93, emerg. eff. March 1, 2004.