Section 19141.1.

(a) This section applies only to a permanent employee, or an employee who previously had permanent status, and who has a reinstatement right pursuant to Section 19141. The State Personnel Board may adopt rules to implement this section.

(b) Within four years of the termination of an appointment in an exempt position, either by the employee or the appointing power, an employee who has completed a minimum of five years of state service experience and at least one year but less than three years of exempt service shall be given an opportunity upon request to obtain civil service appointment eligibility, through a deferred examination, for any position offered by any appointing power in any class for which a current eligible list exists and which has a salary range up to two steps higher than the employee's former position. If the employee has three or more years of exempt service, the opportunity shall be provided for any class at least two salary steps below the employee's exempt salary level.

(c) At the termination of an exempt appointment, either by the employee or the appointing power, on or after January 1, 1987, an employee who has at least 10 years of state service including five years of civil service experience and at least three consecutive years of exempt service under a single appointing power and who requests reinstatement in writing within 10 days of the termination, shall be reinstated upon request to (1) his or her former position or (2) any vacant position for which the employee has civil service eligibility under the appointing power where the three years of service were completed and which is at least two salary steps below the employee's exempt salary level. In the absence of current list eligibility, an employee shall be entitled to a deferred examination for placement on a current eligible list for classes meeting the mandatory reinstatement criteria. If the employee obtains civil service appointment eligibility at any time within two years of the termination of the exempt appointment, and a vacant position in the appropriate class is not available, the employee's name shall be placed on the appointing power's departmental or subdivisional reemployment for any classes and locations which would satisfy the employee's reinstatement request. Departmental or subdivisional reemployment list eligibility granted under this section shall not result in placement on any general reemployment list.

If an employee cannot be placed in a vacant position pursuant to this section, the employee shall be reinstated to his or her former position.

(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1280, Sec. 2.)